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.