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John Davenport Snowden and wife, Uganda 1916
John Davenport Snowden, botanical explorer and plant collector, with his wife, standing outside their tent at a camp near Kampala, Uganda, in 1916. Snowden began work in Uganda in 1911, when he became Assistant Agricultural Officer. He sent many specimens back to Kew. The red hot poker Kniphofia thompsonii var. snowdenii is named after him
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Kews women gardeners, November 1916
Kew's women gardeners, November 1916, during World War I. During the war women's roles at Kew continued to grow. Back row (l-r) K W Harper, I L Lines, H A Rowan, M I Yeo, N J Watson, E M HArper, K Watson. Middle row (l-r) H W Davidson, N M Wiltshire, C Nash, V H Harvey, E M Casey, H M Ranson, A Hutchings, C F Ellis, M W Watson. Front row (l-r) A B Freda, N Robshaw, I E Clark, L H Joshua, R M Williams, E Stubington, V S Bell, M E Goad, M N Owen, N Grant
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Dr R. Melville, scientist at Kew, 1940's
Dr R. Melville, scientist at Kew, working under Dr Hutchinson, Keeper of Museums, during the 1940's, is seen here scraping pollen onto glass from a South African marigold. This became part of the National Reference Collection identifying pollen that triggered hayfever. Melville was one of Kew's representatives on the British Ministry of Supply's Vegetable Drugs Committee, advising on plant sources for drugs
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