Kew Gardens get new exhibition hall

The Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew.

EDITORIAL COMMITTEE: S. NEWCOMB, Mathematics; R. S. WOODWARD, Mechanics; E. C. PICKERING, Astronomy; T. C. MENDENHALL, Physics; 1R. H. THURSTON, Engineering; IRA REMSEN, Chemistry; J. LE CONTE, Geology; W. M. DAVIS, Physiography; HENRY F. OSBORN, Paleontology; W. K. BROOKS, C. HART MERRIAM, Zoology; S. H. SCUDDER, Entomology; C. E. BESSEY, N. L. BRITTON, Botany; C. S. MINOT, Embryology, Histolo...

Opening of the Monica Britton Exhibition Hall

Medical History was opened at Frenchay Hospital on Wednesday, October 30th, 1985. It was given by Mr J. H. Britton CBE MA LLD JP to Frenchay Health Authority in memory of his wife Monica. In a short opening speech the Director of the project, Mr Colin Davidson paid tribute to the generosity and imagination of the donor and to the efforts of the project team and all the people who had worked so ...

Extracting Predictive Models from Marked-Up Free-Text Documents at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, London

In this paper we explore the combination of text-mining, un-supervised and supervised learning to extract predictive models from a corpus of digitised historical floras. These documents deal with the nomenclature, geographical distribution, ecology and comparative morphology of the species of a region. Here we exploit the fact that portions of text in the floras are marked up as different types...

Exhibition of New Remedy

seem to irritate, and might in that respect be considered a liquid vaseline, but purer. It was especially useful after alkaline baths in psoriasis. In the Practitioner for June there appeared an account by Dr Eoberts of Chester of forty-two cases in which he had employed this oil, to which he gave the name Oleum Deelinae. It appeared to be palliative and soothing. It was cheap, quite odourless,...

Exhibition of New Instruments