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	 		<title>Formosa and Mycology... Cataloguing Kew&#39;s Archives</title>
			<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 11:35:00 GMT</pubDate>	 
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	 		<description><![CDATA[Read about the papers of William Price and Arthur Pearson that have recently been catalogued by our Archives Graduate Trainee, Steph.<br/>
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	 		<title>Conservation of Fortune&#39;s Chinese tree portraits</title>
			<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 15:15:00 GMT</pubDate>	 
	 		<author>webteam@kew.org (Kew)</author>
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	 		<description><![CDATA[Read about the conservation work which has been carried out on some beautiful watercolour tree portraits from Kew's Illustrations collection.<br/>
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	 		<title>Aitchison and Asia in the Directors&#39; Correspondence</title>
			<pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2012 00:50:00 GMT</pubDate>	 
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	 		<link>http://www.kew.org/news/kew-blogs/library-art-archives/aitchison-and-asia.htm</link>
	 		<description><![CDATA[Uncovering the plant collecting experiences of a 19th century surgeon naturalist through his correspondence with Kew.<br/>
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	 		<title>Preparing for the Joseph Hooker exhibition</title>
			<pubDate>Thu, 29 Mar 2012 11:50:00 GMT</pubDate>	 
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	 		<description><![CDATA[Read about how the Preservation section prepared for the Joseph Hooker exhibition.<br/>
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	 		<title>Masterpieces, mishaps and memories: Mount Kanchenjunga in the Directors&#39; Correspondence</title>
			<pubDate>Fri, 09 Mar 2012 20:30:00 GMT</pubDate>	 
	 		<author>webteam@kew.org (Kew)</author>
	 		<link>http://www.kew.org/news/kew-blogs/library-art-archives/mount-kanchenjunga.htm</link>
	 		<description><![CDATA[Kew's own Sir Joseph Hooker was the first Westerner to explore the  majestic Mount Kanchenjunga. Read about other stories surrounding this  mountain, inspired by a letter from  the artist and writer, Edward Lear.<br/>
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	 		<title>Inside the Preservation Studio</title>
			<pubDate>Mon, 27 Feb 2012 14:00:00 GMT</pubDate>	 
	 		<author>webteam@kew.org (Kew)</author>
	 		<link>http://www.kew.org/news/kew-blogs/library-art-archives/inside-the-preservation-studio.htm</link>
	 		<description><![CDATA[Read about our Library Graduate Trainee and her behind-the-scenes work in the Preservation Studio.<br/>
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	 		<title>Roses are red, violets are blue...and human heads are sign of good luck!</title>
			<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>	 
	 		<author>webteam@kew.org (Kew)</author>
	 		<link>http://www.kew.org/news/kew-blogs/library-art-archives/valentines-day.htm</link>
	 		<description><![CDATA[As Valentine's Day approaches, discover the unusual way Taiwanese aborigines went about attracting a partner in the 19th Century, and why plant collector Richard Oldham said the Taiwan mountains were too dangerous a place to collect.<br/>
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	 		<title>Displaying the letters of Augustine Henry</title>
			<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:13:00 GMT</pubDate>	 
	 		<author>webteam@kew.org (Kew)</author>
	 		<link>http://www.kew.org/news/kew-blogs/library-art-archives/augustine-henry-letters.htm</link>
	 		<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>	 
	 		<author>webteam@kew.org (Kew)</author>
	 		<link>http://www.kew.org/news/kew-blogs/library-art-archives/promoting-voices-of-oral-history-in-the-usa.htm</link>
	 		<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>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>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>
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	 		<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>Fascinating collection of Ray Cowell&#39;s illustrations comes to Kew</title>
			<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 21:00:00 GMT</pubDate>	 
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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>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>Introducing our new Library Graduate Trainee</title>
			<pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2011 14:45:00 GMT</pubDate>	 
	 		<author>webteam@kew.org (Kew)</author>
	 		<link>http://www.kew.org/news/kew-blogs/library-art-archives/introducing-our-new-library-graduate-trainee.htm</link>
	 		<description><![CDATA[Read about our new Library Graduate Trainee and all that her role entails.<br/>
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	 		<title>Digging through the Directors&#39; Correspondence: Letters from the Archaeologist M. Aurel Stein</title>
			<pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2011 16:30:00 GMT</pubDate>	 
	 		<author>webteam@kew.org (Kew)</author>
	 		<link>http://www.kew.org/news/kew-blogs/library-art-archives/digging-through-the-directors-correspondence.htm</link>
	 		<description><![CDATA[Read about our trip to the British Library's International Dunhuang Project, the amazing scrolls discovered by archaeologist M. Aurel Stein, and some of Stein's letters that we recently unearthed from the Kew's Directors' Correspondence archive collection.<br /><br/>
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	 		<title>A gallery for the nation</title>
			<pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2011 11:40:00 GMT</pubDate>	 
	 		<author>webteam@kew.org (Kew)</author>
	 		<link>http://www.kew.org/news/kew-blogs/library-art-archives/a-gallery-for-the-nation.htm</link>
	 		<description><![CDATA[A new exhibition and a community art project - find out what's coming up next in Kew's galleries!<br/>
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	 		<title>Discovering your family tree at Kew Gardens</title>
			<pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2011 12:10:00 GMT</pubDate>	 
	 		<author>webteam@kew.org (Kew)</author>
	 		<link>http://www.kew.org/news/kew-blogs/library-art-archives/discovering-your-family-tree-at-kew.htm</link>
	 		<description><![CDATA[With researching our family history becoming an increasingly popular pastime, Stephanie describes how the archives at Kew could help you to delve into the lives of your ancestors.<br/>
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	 		<title>Early 20th century plant hunting in Taiwan</title>
			<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>	 
	 		<author>webteam@kew.org (Kew)</author>
	 		<link>http://www.kew.org/news/kew-blogs/library-art-archives/plant-hunting-in-taiwan.htm</link>
	 		<description><![CDATA[Find out about the experiences in Taiwan of botanical collector William Robert Price through the letters he sent back to Kew Gardens at the turn of the last century.<br/>
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	 		<title>Curse of the bamboo flower</title>
			<pubDate>Mon, 22 Aug 2011 11:00:00 GMT</pubDate>	 
	 		<author>webteam@kew.org (Kew)</author>
	 		<link>http://www.kew.org/news/kew-blogs/library-art-archives/bamboo-flowering-curse.htm</link>
	 		<description><![CDATA[A letter in the Directors' Correspondence archive describes how the deadly prediction of an old Chinese proverb about bamboo flowering came true.<br/>
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	 		<title>Behind closed doors - Kew&#39;s conservation studio</title>
			<pubDate>Wed, 10 Aug 2011 10:40:00 GMT</pubDate>	 
	 		<author>webteam@kew.org (Kew)</author>
	 		<link>http://www.kew.org/news/kew-blogs/library-art-archives/conservation-studio.htm</link>
	 		<description><![CDATA[&nbsp;In her farewell post, Sarah blogs about her final project at Kew, during which she gets a backstage pass to the conservation studio for a day!<br/>
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