Post on 16-Sep-2020
A collection of cinchona
bark at Kew Gardens:
using objects in research
Kim Walker
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew & Royal Holloway
k.walker@kew.org @kim_wyrt
Supervisors: Mark Nesbitt & Felix Driver
12 September 2018
In Sickness and in Health : Exploring History of Medicine Collections.
Links
k.walker@kew.org @kim_wyrt
Economic Botany Collection
https://www.kew.org/science/collections/economic-botany-collection
Blog on Kew project and crowd sourcing
https://www.kew.org/blogs/kew-science/the-fever-tree-help-us-transcribe-a-
bit-of-history
Documentary on collaborative cinchona phylogenetic
project
https://evogenomics.snm.ku.dk/research-
groups/roensted_group/the_quest_for_cinchona/
Introduction
k.walker@kew.org @kim_wyrt
Object Biographies
Reading objects,
tracing object histories
k.walker@kew.org @kim_wyrt
Other stories…
k.walker@kew.org @kim_wyrt
Thank you
Kim Walker
k.walker@kew.org
@kim_wyrt
In Sickness and in Health : Exploring History of Medicine Collections.