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	 		<title>Displaying the letters of Augustine Henry</title>
			<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:13:00 GMT</pubDate>	 
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	 		<description><![CDATA[The Directors' Correspondence team has just put some of the letters of botanist Augustine Henry on display in Kew's Library Reading Room. Find out why we chose him as our subject and how the display brings together material from many of Kew's behind-the-scenes collections.<br/>
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	 		<title>Promoting Voices of Oral History in the USA</title>
			<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:50:00 GMT</pubDate>	 
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	 		<description><![CDATA[Michele, Assistant Archivist at Kew, blogs about her experiences at the American Oral History Society's annual conference held in Denver, Colorado, last October.<br/>
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	 		<title>From the field - Harapan Rainforest, Sumatra</title>
			<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 11:45:00 GMT</pubDate>	 
	 		<author>webteam@kew.org (Kew)</author>
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	 		<description><![CDATA[Kew's GIS and South East Asia team report from the forests of Sumatra. This is the first of their posts.<br/>
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	 		<title>Studying yams in Madagascar</title>
			<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 11:00:00 GMT</pubDate>	 
	 		<author>webteam@kew.org (Kew)</author>
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	 		<description><![CDATA[Kew and Feedback Madagascar are collaborating to look at the preferences for different species of edible yam in Madagascan rural communities. Find out about the latest research being undertaken as part of Kew's work in Madagascar.&nbsp;<br/>
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	 		<title>Investigating the spread of an invasive tree in the Turks and Caicos Islands</title>
			<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 13:00:00 GMT</pubDate>	 
	 		<author>webteam@kew.org (Kew)</author>
	 		<link>http://www.kew.org/news/kew-blogs/ukots/invasive-tree-excludes-tci-wildlife.htm</link>
	 		<description><![CDATA[Alexandra Davey, a Conservation Science MSc student from Imperial College, spent two months in the Turks and Caicos Islands (TCI), investigating the spread of an invasive tree, <em>Casuarina equisetifolia</em>, which threatens coastal habitats there.<br/>
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	 		<title>Travel the world and explore the past at Kew</title>
			<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>	 
	 		<author>webteam@kew.org (Kew)</author>
	 		<link>http://www.kew.org/news/kew-blogs/library-art-archives/travel-the-world-and-explore-the-past-at-kew.htm</link>
	 		<description><![CDATA[Discover the wealth of documents held at Kew&rsquo;s Archives which can help us to create a picture of the lifestyles of travellers and explorers in the 19th and 20th centuries.<br/>
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	 		<title>Antarctic heroes</title>
			<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>	 
	 		<author>webteam@kew.org (Kew)</author>
	 		<link>http://www.kew.org/news/kew-blogs/kew-magazine/antarctic-heroes.htm</link>
	 		<description><![CDATA[Today marks the 100th anniversary of the day Captain Robert Falcon Scott and his team reached the South Pole. But did you know that in the Joseph Hooker exhibition at Kew Gardens, you can see a letter from Scott to Sir Joseph Hooker?<br/>
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	 		<title>The winter flowering Cyclamen coum</title>
			<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 16:00:00 GMT</pubDate>	 
	 		<author>webteam@kew.org (Kew)</author>
	 		<link>http://www.kew.org/news/kew-blogs/alpine-rock-garden/the-winter-flowering-cyclamen-coum.htm</link>
	 		<description><![CDATA[It is said that you can have a cyclamen in flower every month of the year and January belongs to the diminutive <em>Cyclamen coum</em>.<br/>
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	 		<title>Understanding colour for photographers</title>
			<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 15:40:00 GMT</pubDate>	 
	 		<author>webteam@kew.org (Kew)</author>
	 		<link>http://www.kew.org/news/kew-blogs/igpoty/understanding-colour.htm</link>
	 		<description><![CDATA[Philip Smith shows you how your garden and plant photography can benefit from a richer understanding of&nbsp; colour.<br/>
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	 		<title>Free events in Kew&#39;s Archives this January</title>
			<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 15:00:00 GMT</pubDate>	 
	 		<author>webteam@kew.org (Kew)</author>
	 		<link>http://www.kew.org/news/kew-blogs/library-art-archives/free-events-in-the-archives.htm</link>
	 		<description><![CDATA[Join Kew's archivists to hear botanists&rsquo; and plant hunters&rsquo; stories about their travels and cultural encounters and go behind-the-scenes in the Archives.<br/>
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	 		<title>Introducing the GIS Unit</title>
			<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>	 
	 		<author>webteam@kew.org (Kew)</author>
	 		<link>http://www.kew.org/news/kew-blogs/gis-team/welcome-to-the-gis-blog.htm</link>
	 		<description><![CDATA[Find out more about the GIS Unit at Kew from Justin Moat.<br/>
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	 		<title>Fascinating collection of Ray Cowell&#39;s illustrations comes to Kew</title>
			<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 21:00:00 GMT</pubDate>	 
	 		<author>webteam@kew.org (Kew)</author>
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	 		<description><![CDATA[Read about a new acquisition of illustrations by artist Ray Cowell, who painted fungi in astonishing detail -&nbsp; even including the teeth marks of hungry rodents!<br/>
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	 		<title>The holly and the ivy</title>
			<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 20:30:00 GMT</pubDate>	 
	 		<author>webteam@kew.org (Kew)</author>
	 		<link>http://www.kew.org/news/kew-blogs/arboretum-team/the-holly-and-the-ivy-at-kew.htm</link>
	 		<description><![CDATA[Tony Hall tells tales of holly folklore and describes the amazing variety of colour to be seen along Kew's historic Holly Walk.<br/>
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	 		<title>Kew magazine wins Garden Media Guild Award</title>
			<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 20:00:00 GMT</pubDate>	 
	 		<author>webteam@kew.org (Kew)</author>
	 		<link>http://www.kew.org/news/kew-blogs/kew-magazine/kew-magazine-wins-media-award.htm</link>
	 		<description><![CDATA[Kew magazine's editor, Christina Harrison, recently attended this year's GMG Awards where her magazine scooped a prestigious award together with finalist results in other categories.<br/>
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	 		<title>Sir Joseph Hooker and the UK Overseas Territories</title>
			<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 10:15:00 GMT</pubDate>	 
	 		<author>webteam@kew.org (Kew)</author>
	 		<link>http://www.kew.org/news/kew-blogs/ukots/joseph-hooker-and-the-ukots.htm</link>
	 		<description><![CDATA[On the 100th anniversary of the death of one of the greatest botanists of the Victorian era, Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker, find out about the unique plants that he encountered on his visits to the UKOTs and how this experience influenced his theories on plant distribution, which he later shared with Charles Darwin.<br/>
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	 		<title>Early daffs...and more!</title>
			<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 14:45:00 GMT</pubDate>	 
	 		<author>webteam@kew.org (Kew)</author>
	 		<link>http://www.kew.org/news/kew-blogs/alpine-rock-garden/early-daffs-and-more.htm</link>
	 		<description><![CDATA[The warm autumn has encouraged some daffodils (<em>Narcissus</em>) to flower early in the Davies Alpine House - and there are other interesting plants to see there too.<br/>
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	 		<title>Visit to the Arnold Arboretum Boston, USA</title>
			<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 14:00:00 GMT</pubDate>	 
	 		<author>webteam@kew.org (Kew)</author>
	 		<link>http://www.kew.org/news/kew-blogs/arboretum-team/visit-to-the-arnold-arboretum-boston.htm</link>
	 		<description><![CDATA[The Arnold Arboretum on America's east coast is renowned for its autumn colour and old trees. On a recent visit, Tony Hall delved into&nbsp;Kew's historic links with the arboretum, through plants and plant hunting.<br/>
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	 		<title>Meet Nathaniel Wallich through his digital archive</title>
			<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 16:57:19 GMT</pubDate>	 
	 		<author>webteam@kew.org (Kew)</author>
	 		<link>http://www.kew.org/news/kew-blogs/library-art-archives/meet-nathaniel-wallich.htm</link>
	 		<description><![CDATA[This week sees the publication of a new website, funded by the World Collections Programme, which reunites collections relating to the Danish botanist Nathaniel Wallich.&nbsp; Find out more about the man himself in the Directors' Correspondence collection.<br/>
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	 		<title>Monitoring the effect of an invasive pine scale insect on the national tree of the Turks and Caicos Islands</title>
			<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 18:00:00 GMT</pubDate>	 
	 		<author>webteam@kew.org (Kew)</author>
	 		<link>http://www.kew.org/news/kew-blogs/ukots/monitoring-threatened-pines-on-tci.htm</link>
	 		<description><![CDATA[While an introduced scale insect devastates the Caicos pine in the Turks and Caicos Islands (TCI), Sara Green, a Conservation Science MSc student from Imperial College, London investigated the impact that the insect is having on the tree&rsquo;s habitat and the effectiveness of different techniques of controlling this pest.<br/>
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	 		<title>Last chance to enter IGPOTY 2011</title>
			<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 18:00:00 GMT</pubDate>	 
	 		<author>webteam@kew.org (Kew)</author>
	 		<link>http://www.kew.org/news/kew-blogs/igpoty/last-days-of-igpoty-2011.htm</link>
	 		<description><![CDATA[Have you entered IGPOTY 2011 yet? If not, time is running out. Here, Philip Smith tells you everything you need to know, together with a run through of next year's exhibitions.<br/>
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