Mobile Museum Working Paper 1 1 Working Paper 1 The Economic Botany Collection at Kew: Analysis of Accessions Data Caroline Cornish, Felix Driver & Mark Nesbitt June 2017 This is the first of a series of Working Papers produced as part of the Mobile Museum Project (www.royalholloway.ac.uk/mobilemuseum). It represents work in progress and is subject to further revision in the course of the project. We are happy to acknowledge the support of the AHRC (The mobile museum: economic botany in circulation - AH/N00941X/1) and of the Smithsonian Institution Office of Fellowships and Internships, as well as that of a number of colleagues, namely: fellow project team member Beth Wilkey, Kew botanists Martin Cheek and Timothy Utteridge, and the Kew archivists and librarians. Contact Citation Please cite this paper as follows: Cornish, C, F. Driver & M. Nesbitt, 'The Economic Botany Collection at Kew: Analysis of Accessions Data', Mobile Museum Working Paper 1 (June 2017), accessed from https://www.rhul.ac.uk/mobile-museum, date). Caroline Cornish & Felix Driver: Royal Holloway, University of London Department of Geography, Egham Hill, Egham, Surrey, TW20 0EX. Mark Nesbitt: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, TW9 3AE.