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Location	National Maritime Museum

01 Oct 2010

Regular visitors to the Caird Library will be used to seeing references to the National Archives amongst our collections. Now it seems that other great Kew institution is getting in on the maritime act. We spotted recently this fascinating blog post written by colleagues at Kew Gardens about some rare cloth in their collection with a connection to HMS Bounty.

While we're at it, I wonder if the staff at Kew Gardens would be interested in this item, re-discovered recently in our archive collection. Not to mention the logbook of HMS Sea Flower; our collection of documents belonging to George Rose and of course a whole host of family trees.

Richard (Assistant Archivist)