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A collection of cinchona bark at Kew Gardens: using objects in research Kim Walker k.walker@kew.org @kim_wyrt Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew & Royal Holloway Supervisors: Mark Nesbitt & Felix Driver 12 September 2018 In Sickness and in

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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.

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Links

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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/

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Introduction

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Object Biographies

Reading objects, tracing object histories

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Other stories…

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Thank you

Kim Walker k.walker@kew.org @kim_wyrt

In Sickness and in Health : Exploring History of Medicine Collections.