Links to useful websites
Some useful plant colleagues at Kew - personal sites
Some key collaborators elsewhere
Societies
Museum collections online
Libraries & archive catalogues
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Images
Botany
- 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
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- 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