“…Report on Kew Gardens…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Thomas's West African collections -- 3 Circuits of accumulation and loss: intersecting natural histories of the 1928 USDA New Guinea Sugarcane Expedition's collections -- 4 Kew's mobile museum: economic botany in circulation -- 5 Illustrating anthropological knowledge: texts, images and duplicate specimens at the Smithsonian Institution and Pitt Rivers Museum -- 6 Expeditionary collections: Haslar Hospital Museum and the circulation of public knowledge, 1815-1855 7 Mobile botany: education, horticulture and commerce in New York botanical gardens, 1890s-1930s -- 8 Plants on the move: Kew Gardens and the London schoolroom -- 9 Circulations of paradise (or, how to use a specimen to best personal advantage) -- 10 Circulation as negotiation and loss: Egyptian antiquities from British excavations, 1880-present -- 11 Colonising memory: Indigenous heritage and community engagement -- 12 The flow of things: mobilising museum collections of nineteenth-century Fijian liku (fibre skirts) and veiqia (female tattooing) -- Afterword: what goes around, comes around mobility's modernity -- Index…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Conté: Introduction, p. 8 ; From Greenhouse to 'High-tech Hothouse' - Virtual Experience Space of Industrial and Communicative Societies, p. 12 ; Glasshouse Pioneers, p. 16 ; Palm House, Bicton Gardens, Budleigh Salterton, Devon, p. 18 ; Greenhouse and Glass Pavilions, Jardin des Plantes, Paris, p. 20 ; Greenhouses, Park of Chatsworth House, Derbyshire, p. 22 ; Great Palm House, Kew Gardens, London, p. 24 ; Grobes Palmenhaus and Sonnenuhrhaus, Schlosspark Schönbrunn, Vienna, p. 26 ; Between Style and Method: Modernism and Post-war Modernism, p. 28 ; Horticultural Building and Crystal Dome, p. 30 ; Geodesic Domes, p. 32 ; Arctic City, p. 34 ; After 1973: The New Type of Glasshouse, p. 36 ; Glasshouses in Transition after 1973, p. 38 ; Peter Rice – Pioneer of “Structural Glazing”, p. 40 ; “Flying Glass Roofs”, p. 44 ; On the Threshold of the Future, p. 46 ; Great Court, British Museum, London, p. 48 ; Eden Project, St. …”

“…The Tower of London; Kew Gardens; Westminster Abbey and its surroundings; and the historic settlement in Greenwich. …”