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Tag Archives: Kew Gardens
Economic Botany
As a major new series begins on BBC Radio 4, we look at the CLC books on ‘plants which changed the world’. The BBC is beginning today a major series, ‘Plants: From Roots to Riches’ on BBC Radio 4, weekdays … Continue reading
Posted in Gardening, History, Life Science, Slavery and Abolition, Travel and Exploration, Uncategorized
Tagged BBC Radio 4, coffee, Kew Gardens, Robert Fortune, rubber industry, silk, tea
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The Transit of Venus
It’s always the same thing – you wait for ages for a once-in-a-lifetime moment, and then three come along at once: the London Olympic Games next month (if you like that sort of thing), the Diamond Jubilee celebrations of Queen … Continue reading
Posted in Astronomy, Earth Sciences, History, Life Science, Mathematical Sciences, Physical Sciences, The Naval Chronicle, Travel and Exploration
Tagged Captain Cook, Daniel Solander, Kerguelen Islands, Kew Gardens, Rodrigues, Royal Observatory Greenwich, Sir Joseph Banks, Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker, transit of Venus
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The House of Veitch
When Marianne North was on her botanical travels in Borneo, she painted –among many other subjects – some of the exotic nepenthes, or pitcher plants, which grow on the branches of rainforest trees, but instead of feeding parasitically off their … Continue reading
Posted in Life Science, Women's Writing
Tagged Joseph Hooker, Kew Gardens, Marianne North, Veitch nursery
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Recollections Of A Happy Life
The life in question was led by Marianne North. Yet another of the Victorian ladies in our list who do not conform to the ‘angel in the house’ stereotype, her travels worldwide were extraordinary enough, but her skill and productivity … Continue reading
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