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Anon. 1848. Kew Gardens and Museum of Vegetable Products. Pharmaceutical Journal 7(1): 150-152. Download as PDF

Anon. 1875. Daniel Hanbury, F.R.S.,etc. Pharmaceutical Journal 5(3): 797-799. Download as PDF

Anon. 1878. The Museum of the Pharmaceutical Society. Pharmaceutical Journal 8(3): 607-608. Download as PDF

Anon. 1892. The Late Emeritus Professor Redwood. Pharmaceutical Journal 12(3): 833-835. Download this PDF

Anon. 1989. The Society's drug collection "back to life" at Kew. Pharmaceutical Journal 243(6557): 544-545.

Brockway, L.H. 1979. Science and colonial expansion: the role of the British Royal Botanic Gardens. New York: Academic Press. 215 pp.

Desmond, R. 1998. Kew: The history of the Royal Botanic Gardens. London: Harvill Press and Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 466 pp.

Drayton, R.H. 2000. Nature's government: science, imperial Britain and the 'improvement' of the world. New Haven; London: Yale University Press. 345 pp.

Hastings, L.H. 1996. The Botanic Gardens at Kew and the wartime need for medicines. Pharmaceutical Journal 257(6923): 923-927.

Hepper, F.N. (ed.) 1982. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: gardens for science and pleasure. London: HMSO.

Holloway, S.W.F. 1991. Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain 1841-1991 A Political and Social History. London: The Pharmaceutical Press.

Musgrave, T. and Musgrave, W. 2000. An empire of plants: people and plants that changed the world. London: Cassell. 191 pp.

Paris, John, A. 1838. A Biographical Sketch of the Late William George Maton, M.D. London: Richard and John Edward Taylor. 32pp. Download as PDF

Prendergast, H.D.V. and Dolley, D. 2001. Jesuits' bark (Cinchona (Rubiaceae) and other medicines. Economic Botany 55: 3-6.

Shellard, E.J. 1980. A History of Pharmacognosy 1842-1980. London.

Shellard, E.J. 1981. The materia medica museum and herbaria of the Pharmaceutical Society. Pharmaceutical Journal (Aug 22): 201-209.

Stockwell, C. 1989. Nature's pharmacy: a history of plants and healing. London, Arrow Books in association with the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 160 pp.

Trease, G.E. 1964. Pharmacy in History. Ballière Tindall & Cox.

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