Kew Museum of Economic Botany: Object Dispersals to Schools, 1877-1982

It is based on entries in the 'Specimens Distributed' books (or exit books) in the Museum archive, including date of dispersal; name of recipient; name of school; level, type and denomination of school; number of objects; and any other information given in the books. This is supplemented by information from schools archival correspondence from 'Schools Letter Books', consisting of correspondence to Kew.

There are item-level links to original archive sources - both exit books and schools letter books (volume 1 only) - available on the Biodiversity Heritage Library website (biodiversitylibrary.org). This dataset was 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. Links: royalholloway.ac.uk/geography/research/mobile-museum/home.aspx kew.org/science/collections/economic-botany-collection