Links to useful websites

Some useful plant colleagues at Kew - personal sites

• Frances Cook Twitter
• Lauren Gardiner Twitter
• Peter Giovannini Twitter
• Olwen Grace Twitter
• William Milliken video Twitter
• Alex Monro blog Twitter
• Phil Stevenson Twitter
• Kim Walker Twitter

Some key collaborators elsewhere

• Caroline Cornish
• Felix Driver
• Rodney Harrison Twitter
• Viviane Stern da Fonseca-Kruel
• Frances Lennard Blog
• Nina Rønsted Twitter
• Dean Sully Blog

Societies

• Association for Environmental Archaeology
• British Institute at Ankara
• British Society for the History of Pharmacy
• Linnean Society
• Museum Ethnographers Group
• Natural Sciences Collections Association (NatSCA)
• Society for Economic Botany

Museum collections online

• British Museum
• Economic Botany Collection, Kew
• Horniman Museum
• Linnean Society
• Musée du quai Branly
• Natural History Museum   Botany   Sir Hans Sloane
• Pitt-Rivers Museum
• Science Museum
• Victoria & Albert Museum

Libraries & archive catalogues

• Bodleian Library (Oxford)
• British Library
• Cambridge University Library   Books   Archives includes Royal Commonwealth Society
• COPAC (UK union catalogue)
• Kew
• Linnean Society
• National Archives (UK)   Catalogue   Discovery (A2A)   Library
• National Art Library many World's Fair catalogues
• Natural History Museum   Library   Archives
• Richmond upon Thames local library
• School of Oriental & African Studies
• Senate House Library (University of London) good for history and empire/Commonwealth
• UCL Library
• Wellcome Library more than medical history! Worth joining for its electronic resources too

Full text

• Biodiversity History Library   its content is included within the Internet Archive
• Google Books   good search, poor content
• Internet Archive   poor search, excellent content. Full-test search here

Images

• British Library low resolution
• Google Images
• Library of Congress not just pictures of the USA
• New York Public Library ditto
• State Library Victoria
  
• Plantillustrations.org super-useful database and downloads of historic botanical illustrations
• Wellcome Images amazing free resource for high-resolution images

Botany

• GRIN Taxonomy for Plants the best & fullest list for useful plants
• International Plant Names Index (IPNI) all plant names published; does not indicate which to use
• Mansfeld Database of cultivated plants good for cultivated plants
• Plant Resources of South East Asia (PROSEA) very comprehensive; not all online
• Plant Resources of Tropical Africa (PROTA) very comprehensive species profiles but incomplete
• The Plant List the best we've got but 200k unresolved names
• TROPICOS for the Americas
• World Checklist good when it covers the family you want