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The Royal Society Library and Archives

6-9 Carlton House Terrace
London, SW1Y 5AG
United Kingdom

020 7451 2606

Web site: http://royalsociety.org/page.asp?id=1646

Events: http://royalsociety.org/page.asp… (updated February 14)

Description: We welcome researchers in the scholarly use of the Royal Society's collections, which are of international importance in the history of science. Our resources include manuscripts, printed books and paintings amassed to provide a record of scientific achievements over almost 350 years.

The Library also makes available a range of contemporary journals and monographs in history of science and an important Science Policy collection, supporting the Society's continuing role as an independent advisory body.

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The Brother Gardeners: the Royal Society and Britain's obsession with gardening (April 25 at 1:00pm)
Andrea Wulf discusses The Brother Gardeners. Botany, Empire and the Birth of an Obsession.
The tale of how a group of passionate plant collectors, botanists and explorers turned Britain into a nation of gardeners. The cast includes Peter Collinson, who brought the American wilderness to British parks; botanists Carl Linnaeus and Daniel Solander; and Sir Joseph Banks, who turned Kew into a ... (more)storehouse of Empire.
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Sir Hans Sloane and his Library (October 24 at 1:00pm)
Alison Walker.
Sir Hans Sloane started collecting books when he was about 20 years old, and continued until his death at the age of 92. His collections formed the basis of the British Museum and included some 40,000 printed volumes. By looking at what he acquired and how it was used we can learn about the man himself, ... (more)his career and the intellectual and scientific circles in which he lived.
Alison Walker, The British Library
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