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Subject: Re: GIS/mapping at Kew (Royal Botanic Gardens - not TNA)
Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2010 12:10:21 -0700 (PDT)
From: Kathy Stroud <[log in to unmask]>
To: Air Photo Maps, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship
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Access to this one article appears to be free:
http://www.kew.org/ucm/groups/public/documents/document/ppcont_010854.pdf
Kathy Stroud, Map/GIS Librarian
Environmental Science and Policy, Soil, and Forestry Subject Specialist
Biological/Agricultural Sciences and Map Services, Shields Library
100 NW Quad Ave.
Davis, CA 95616-5292
530-752-5248
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Knowledge is understanding that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
----- "Angie Cope"<[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Subject: RE: GIS/mapping at Kew (Royal Botanic Gardens - not
> TNA)
> Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2010 10:00:41 -0400
> From: Grabach, Kenneth A. Mr.<[log in to unmask]>
> To: Maps, Air Photo, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship
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> Is the citation for this article correct? I cannot find a match for
> the periodical title, Kew Magazine, and the volume # and year. It
> seems the magazine was incorporated into Curtis's Botanical Magazine
> in 1994-1995. That title continues, but the volume number doesn't
> match. Kew Scientist presents an interesting spread on Year of
> Biodiversity and Kew's involvement. And there is Kew Bulletin, which
> has a different article on the pages, which overlap somewhat with the
> citation below.
>
> WorldCat doesn't provide anything that seems useful to assist with an
> ILL submission.
>
> Anything that can shed light on this would be greatly appreciated.
>
>
>
> Ken Grabach<[log in to unmask]>
> Maps Librarian Phone: 513-529-1726
> Miami University Libraries
> Oxford, Ohio 45056 USA
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Maps, Air Photo, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Angie Cope
> Sent: Monday, October 18, 2010 9:27 AM
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> Subject: GIS/mapping at Kew (Royal Botanic Gardens - not TNA)
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> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: GIS/mapping at Kew (Royal Botanic Gardens - not TNA)
> Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2010 10:51:13 +0100
> From: Francis Herbert<[log in to unmask]>
> To: 'A forum for issues related to map& spatial data
> librarianship'
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> CC: 'Maps-L'<[log in to unmask]>
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>
> Although others may be aware of it, perhaps on other discussion lists
> during this present International Year of Biodiversity, I have been
> remiss in mentioning the following article -
>
> 'All mapped out', by Christopher Stocks, in /Kew// magazine/ (Kew,
> Surrey : Royal Botanic Gardens, ISSN 0961-4141), Spring 2010, *68*,
> 22-27 : col. ill.
>
> The intro begins: "Christopher Stocks ['a freelance journalist and
> author of /Forgotten Fruits/ (Random House)'] meets Kew's GIS team,
> who
> create an amazing array of high-tech maps, full of comparative
> information, to help Kew's botanists locate and conserve endangered
> plants around the world[.]"
>
> Special attention is given to Madagascar and a 'prediction map of
> /Dypsis decipiens/ [bottle palm] . . . based on the plant's
> ecological
> preferences'
>
> FH (London, England)
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