About this Event
Registration at 10am
Panel 1: Crowd sourcing and citizen science
Lisa Cardy, Natural History Museum
Digitally unlocking collections at the Library and Archives of the Natural History Museum
Kiri Ross-Jones, Kew Gardens
Unlocking the Archives of Kew Gardens: Citizen Science and Handwritten Text Recognition in the Joseph Hooker Correspondence Project
Panel 2: Human narratives from natural history archives
Katherine Enright, University of Cambridge
Digital Methods for Reconnecting Botanical Publications with Herbarium Specimens: Mohamed Haniff's Ethnobotanical Collecting for Malay Village Medicine (1930)
Kimberly Glassman, Queen Mary University of London
Library, Archive, and Herbarium: A Literary/Material Analysis of Nineteenth Century North American Floras
Christopher D. Preston & Nathan Smith, UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology
Community and Continuity: Non-hierarchical recording of Cambridgeshire’s Plants and Fungi 1919-1949
Lunch includes optional tours of the Linnean (limited number - sign up on the day)
Panel 3: Women in natural history
Liz Smith, University of Cambridge
Establishing the Darwinian Legacy: editorial and scientific work in the archive of Lady Nora Barlow
Ann Sylph, Zoological Society of London
Women and zoological art : Uncovering art and illustrations by women in ZSL's Library and Archives
Panel 4: Second lives of natural history collections
Renae Satterley, Middle Temple
Engagement with historic natural history collections in Middle Temple
William Noblett, University of Cambridge
The 1774 sale of Philip Miller's library in the context of the London book trade
4.30pm Close
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Linnean Society of London, Piccadilly, London, United Kingdom
GBP 30.00 to GBP 50.00
