Richard Spruce on the Rio Negro: Reanimating Biocultural Collections

The biocultural objects collected by nineteenth-century botanist Richard Spruce in Amazonia are a unique point of reference for the useful plants, ethnobotany, and environmental history of the region. This remarkable collection, housed mainly at the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew and the British Museum, incorporates Indigenous plant-based artefacts, detailed archival notes, and accompanying herbarium voucher collections. Event hosted by the Linnean Society.

Time: 18:00 BST

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