Nestled neatly within the cross-disciplinary world of the history of science, ­eighteenth- (and early nineteenth-) century studies, and the history of the

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Long-overlooked documents housed at London's Natural History Museum testify to the exchange of information between 18th-century European botanists and their Indigenous counterparts

Long-overlooked documents housed at London's Natural History Museum testify to the exchange of information between 18th-century European botanists and their Indigenous counterparts

The pioneering naturalist and botanist helped transform European knowledge of the natural world.

A little-known autobiography of the Reverend Thomas Martyn (1735–1825), Professor of Botany at the University of Cambridge between 1762 and 1825, is transcribed and published here for the first time. ...

24 July 6-7pm, Chau Chak Wing Museum. A talk on Dr Edwin Rose’s new book researching the practices of Natural History in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.