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Economic Botany Collection
Catalogue reference: RM 21
What’s it about?
This record is about the Economic Botany Collection dating from 1876-1928.
Is it available online?
Maybe, but not on The National Archives website. This record is held at Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Library and Archives. How to view it.
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Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- RM 21
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Title (The name of the record)
- Economic Botany Collection
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1876-1928
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Description (What the record is about)
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This collection comprises eight bound volumes gathering together printed paper reports, press cuttings, photographs, and manuscripts relating to Economic Botany. Some relate in particular to medicinal plants such as Leprosy Plants, African Arrow Poison and Camphor. The others relate to other uses of plants, either for consumption such as Cocoa and for a wider usage such as Palm Oil. One particular volume deals with Fruit Fly and its effect on fruit crops.
Each volume represents a single series on its own: ECB/1/1 treats with Leprosy plants (1920-1928); ECB/2/1 Africa Arrow Poison (1876-1901); ECB/3/1 Fruit fly (1896-1908) and its effect on fruit crops; ECB/4/1 Cacao (1913-1928); ECB/5/1 Efwata-kala Grass (1921-1925); ECB/6/1 Camphor (1892-1928); ECB/7/1 Pita (1902-1925); ECB/8/1 Oil Palm (1876-1913).
Online descriptions of individual records can be viewed on Discovery, see RM 21. The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew online catalogue is also available to search.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Library and Archives
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
- ECB
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Not Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English, French and German
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 8 volume(s)
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Restrictions on use (Information on restrictions to the use or reproduction of the material)
- This collection is subject to the standard access and reproduction conditions of the Royal Botanic Gardens (RBG), Kew. Access is unrestricted. Reproduction information is available on request.
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Open unless otherwise stated
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
- Unknown. The volumes have been artificially bound together by the Library at RBG Kew.
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Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
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- Topics
- Oil and gas
- Weapons
- Disease
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Custodial history (Describes where and how the record has been held from creation to transfer to The National Archives)
- It his thought that the volumes existed previously as loose records and were bound together in volumes by the RBG Library and given a subject title; some volumes contain a note mentioning that they contain 'manuscripts and reprints bound together'. They were also given a Library classification number which appears on the spine consisting of numbers and sometimes of numbers and letters, according to the subject classification they belonged to.
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- No further accruals expected
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C16536/
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