[Archport] Fw: Seeking Economic Botany Collections

["Isabel Luna" <misabel.luna@gmail.com>]

Reencaminho pedido de Caroline Cornish.

 

 

 

From: Caroline Cornish

Sent: Friday, February 14, 2014 1:35 PM

Subject: Seeking Economic Botany Collections

 

Seeking Economic Botany Collections

 

We are working with the Manchester Museum & Manchester University on a research proposal concerning economic botany ('useful plant') collections. These are distinctive assemblages of plant raw materials and finished products, often with a commercial orientation. While early examples exist (e.g. Sloane's 'vegetable substances' at the NHM), the heyday of economic botany was in the Victorian era, when it appears that many (or even most) general museums would feature such a display.

 

We have so far been in touch with about 20 museums in the UK with economic botany collections, mostly now in store rather than on display. We would be very grateful to hear about any more, whether in the UK or overseas, and whether existing or lost.

 

Economic botany specimens typically include material such as textile fibres, rubber & other resins/gums, dyes, medicinal plants, dried foods, basketry and so on. Today such collections have often been integrated into natural history or world cultures collections.

 

Please reply off-list to Caroline Cornish (c.cornish@kew.org)

 

Many thanks

 

Caroline Cornish & Mark Nesbitt

 

Economic Botany Collection, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

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