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SUMMARY:Collecting natural history: Sloane's 'Vegetable Substances' - Vict
 oria Pickering (Queen Mary University of London and Natural History Museum
 \, London)
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CONTACT:Margaret Carlyle
DESCRIPTION:The 'Vegetable Substances' collection forms part of the surviv
 ing botanical material collected by Sir Hans Sloane (1660–1753) between 
 the 1680s and 1740s\, and now housed in the Natural History Museum in Lond
 on. Its corresponding catalogue lists 12\,523 'Vegetables' and the names o
 f over 300 people who contributed to this collection from around the world
 . Broadly\, I am interested in how this collection was involved in the pro
 duction and exchange of natural knowledge. In this paper I will use my cat
 alogue-based research and work on Sloane's manuscripts to give an overview
  of the collection and then explore some of the major contributors to the 
 'Vegetable Substances' in detail. Whether they directly sent things from a
 broad or acted as conduits for plant specimens\, the type and utility of s
 uch material are viewed in the contexts of their complex networks\, showin
 g how Sloane collected\, boxed\, and preserved natural history.
LOCATION:Seminar Room 2\, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
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