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- Agnes Arber. Herbals: their origin and evolution. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1938
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- Wilfrid Blunt and William T Stearn. The art of botanical illustration. Woodbridge: Antique Collectors’ Club, 1994
- Wilfrid Blunt and Sandra Raphael. The illustrated herbal. London: Frances Lincoln, 1994
- Timothy Brook, Bob Tadashi Wakabayashi (editors). Opium regimes: China, Britain, and Japan, 1839-1952. California: University of California Press, 2000
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- Patrick Curry. ‘Culpeper, Nicholas (1616–1654)’, Oxford dictionary of national biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/6882, accessed 19 Sept 2014]
- Richard Drayton. Nature’s government: science, imperial Britain, and the ‘Improvement’ of the world. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000
- Joseph Morgan Hodge. Triumph of the expert: agrarian doctrines of development and the legacies of British colonialism. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 2007
- Basil Lubbock. The log of the Cutty Sark. Glasgow: J. Brown, 1924
- Basil Lubbock. The opium clippers. Glasgow: Brown, Son and Ferguson, 1953
- James Morgan. ‘Hemp fibres better than graphene’ BBC News, Science and the environment [http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-28770876, accessed 2 Oct 2014]
- Deirdre Morris. 'Mueller, Sir Ferdinand Jakob Heinrich von (1825–1896)', Australian dictionary of biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, [http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/mueller-sir-ferdinand-jakob-heinrich-von-4266/text6893, published in hardcopy 1974, accessed online 9 October 2014]
- Ferdinand von Mueller. Regardfully yours: selected correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller. Edited by RW Home, AM Lucas, Sara Maroske, DM Sinkora and JH Voigt. Bern; London: Peter Lang, 1998-2002
- Roy Porter. The greatest benefit to mankind: a medical history of humanity from Antiquity to the present. London: Fontana Press, 1999
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- Jennifer S Uglow. The lunar men: the friends who made the future, 1730-1810. London: Faber, 2002
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In this exhibition
- The herbal
- From herbal to botany
- Wood
- Sugar and spice
- Stimulants and opiates
- Textiles
- Medicinal plants
- The botanical garden
- Mass production
- Select bibliography