The following datasets and digitised archive files were created as part of research for the Mobile Museum research project, a collaboration between Royal Holloway, University of London, and the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. The datasets are freely available on Royal Holloway’s Figshare data archive. The digitised archive files are available on the Biodiversity Heritage Library website. The research was funded by the Arts & Humanities Research Council ('The mobile museum: economic botany in circulation', AH/N00941X/1).
Data Files
Kew Museum of Economic Botany: Items Distributed, 1847-1990, complete record
URL: https://doi.org/10.17637/rh.11336084.v1
Kew Museum of Economic Botany: Distribution Events, 1847-1990, complete record
URL: https://doi.org/10.17637/rh.11336075.v1
Kew Museum of Economic Botany: object dispersals to schools, 1877-1982
URL: https://doi.org/10.17637/rh.9573956.v2
Kew Museum of Economic Botany: dispersal data for Cornish & Driver (2019)
URL: https://doi.org/10.17637/rh.10327355.v1
Kew Museum of Economic Botany: regional museums data for Cornish et al (2020)
Transcribed Archives
These documents are full transcriptions of the archival record of dispersals from the Kew Museum for the period 1881-1990, with links to the original archives now available on the Biodiversity Heritage Library website.
Kew Museum of Economic Botany: Specimens Distributed Book, Vol 1, 1881-1901
URL: https://doi.org/10.17637/rh.11201702.v1
Kew Museum of Economic Botany: Specimens Distributed Book, Vol 1, 1901-1990
Digitised Archives
Kew Museum of Economic Botany: Record of Specimens Distributed 1881-1901
URL: https://doi.org/10.17637/rh.5938720.v1
Kew Museum of Economic Botany: Record of Specimens Distributed 1901-1990
URL: https://doi.org/10.17637/rh.10327562.v1
Kew Museum of Economic Botany: School Letters vol 1, 1877-1894
URL: https://doi.org/10.17637/rh.10327673.v1
Kew Museum of Economic Botany: School Letters vol 2, 1895-1909
URL: https://doi.org/10.17637/rh.11971554
Kew Museum of Economic Botany: School Letters vol 3, 1904-1914
URL: https://doi.org/10.17637/rh.11971617
Kew Museum of Economic Botany: Entry Books, 1847-1924 (6 volumes)
