It will be terrific to have this resource as well as the Natural
History Museum's digitized Sloane Herbarium
(http://www.nhm.ac.uk/research-curation/projects/sloane-herbarium/index.htm).
I'm eagerly looking forward to using it and envious of everyone who
can attend the conference
Karen Reeds
>The British Library
>in association with the
>Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL
>
>announces the launch of the Sloane Printed Books Project
>
>At the British Library Conference Centre
>96 Euston Road, London NW1 2DB UK
>
>15 October 2008 | 17.30 - 20.00
>
>The Sloane Printed Books Project has created an online catalogue
>which lists books which belonged to Sir Hans Sloane (1660-1753),
>whose collections were one of the foundation collections of
>the British Museum. Bibliographical records are enhanced with
>Sloane's own numbers or other identifying marks, and with
>information about previous owners. The catalogue can be used
>in many different ways, including identifying individual books
>from his library, displaying a range of items in the order in
>which Sloane organised them, or searching for the previous
>owners of books in Sloane's library.
>
>Presentations on the historical background to Sloane's book
>collection will be followed by a demonstration of the online
>catalogue and an opportunity to search its content.
>
>Programme
>
>17.30 Welcome and opening remarks
>Kristian Jensen
>Acting Head of British Collections, British Library
>
>17.40 Collecting information and advancing medicine
>in the time of Sir Hans Sloane
>Professor Hal Cook
>Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine, UCL
>
>18.00 Sir Hans Sloane and the collection of knowledge
>Arthur MacGregor
>Ashmolean Museum
>
>18.20 Sir Hans Sloane, founder of
>the British Museum Library
>Giles Mandelbrote
>Early Printed Collections, British Library
>
>18.40 An Introduction to the Sloane Printed
>Books Catalogue
>Alison Walker
>Lead Researcher, Sloane Printed Books Project
>
>19.00 Questions and discussion
>
>19.15 Drinks reception
>
>Attendance is free
>But please register
>your name with
>Teresa Harrington
>at the British Library
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>
>Submitted by HJ Cook, Professor and Director, Wellcome Trust Centre,
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Karen Reeds, PhD, FLS
Guest Curator
Come into a New World: Linnaeus & America
American Swedish Historical Museum, Philadelphia, February 15-July 1, 2007
Now showing at New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ , May-December, 2008
http://www.americanswedish.org/
http://www.americanswedish.org/linnaeus.htm
Exhibition guide available from
http://www.dianepublishing.net/category_s/490.htm (p.4)
http://www.newjerseystatemuseum.org/
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