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SUMMARY:Plant knowledge-making and the entanglements of natural things: in
 vestigations with Hans Sloane's herbarium - Brad Scott (Queen Mary Univers
 ity of London)
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DESCRIPTION:The herbarium accumulated by Hans Sloane (1660–1753) is the 
 largest pre-Linnaean plant collection in the world. Comprising over 125\,0
 00 specimens\, now bound in 272 volumes\, its components were gathered and
  assembled by hundreds of individuals from many parts of the world. With s
 uch diverse sources\, some dating from the early seventeenth century\, Slo
 ane’s collection is a valuable witness to the practices of herbarium con
 struction and plant knowledge-making in this period.\n\nIn this presentati
 on\, Brad Scott presents the work he has recently undertaken during his Ph
 D at Queen Mary University of London and the Natural History Museum. In it
 \, he suggests how the herbarium as a technology was not simply a tool of 
 knowledge production\, but also of knowledge effacement. Such processes we
 re evident during the assembly and management of the component collections
  by their various creators and owners\, and in the curatorial history of t
 he collection since Sloane's death. Furthermore\, different ways of knowin
 g and the social and economic infrastructures that supported herbarium con
 struction are barely visible within the pages of plant collections. Throug
 h a series of short case studies\, the presentation will explore how the p
 ractices of collection-building normalised the gaps and silences in herbar
 ia\, and thereby occluded certain categories of knowledge and the agency o
 f many knowledge-holders.
LOCATION:Seminar Room 1\, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
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