Mark Nesbitt - ethnobotanist & curator
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Links to useful websites

Some useful plant colleagues at Kew - personal sites
  • ​​Mauricio Diazgranados Cadelo
  • Matt Nelson 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
  • Lauren Gardiner Twitter
  • 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 also included within the Internet Archive
  • Google Books   good search, poor content
  • Internet Archive   poor search, excellent content. Full-test search here

Images
  • Biodiversity Heritage Library - fiddly procedure, not truly hi-res
  • Birmingam Museums
  • British Library low resolution images
  • Getty Free hi-res images
  • Google Images
  • Library of Congress Free hi-res images - not just pictures of the USA
  • Metropolitan Museum Free hi-res images
  • National Museum of New Zealand Free hi-res images
  • New York Public Library Free hi-res images
  • Smithsonian Free mostly hi-res images
  • State Library Victoria Free hi-res images - not just Australia
  • Plantillustrations.org super-useful database and downloads of low-res historic botanical illustrations
  • Victoria & Albert Museum Free medium-res images
  • Wellcome Images Free hi-res images - well beyond history of medicine

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
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  • Home
  • About me
    • Long version
  • News
    • News Archive
  • Research
    • Collections
  • Teaching
    • Masters/PhD dissertations
  • Outreach
  • Publications
    • Just the Tonic
  • Links
    • Kew history
  • Contact