Robert Pocock Herbarium [videorecording]
2015
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Robert Pocock (1760-1830) lived in Gravesend Kent UK. In 1884 G M Arnold aquired the remnants of Robert Pocock's journal and what remained of his herbarium. Arnold published the journal and some short biographical notes on Pocock. Robert Pocock was a talented man with many interests. But Pocock had died bankrupt, a pauper, and all of his collections, papers and books had been sold off, thrown away or had gradually decayed through the action of pests and mould. In 1884 Arnold donated the Pocock herbarium to the Natural History Museum in London. Here is was dispersed within the British and Irish Herbarium and is now housed in the Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity. The Robert Pocock Herbarium Project was put together in 2013 by 16 local people to find and catalogue these specimens. We hoped to be able to use the plants and their associated data to reconstruct the life and botanical legacy of Robert Pocock. The project 2013-2015 was funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund and supported by Dr Mark Spencer abd Mr John Hunnex of the Natural History Museum. It was administered by North West Kent Local Group of the Kent Wildlife Trust.
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Kent Wildlife Trust, 2015?
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1 videodisc (DVD) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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238714