The Botanical and Meteorological history of the Indian Ocean 1500-1900

在早期关于印度洋植物和气象历史的网络拨款（包括图书馆、博物馆和学术机构）的基础上，该提案旨在通过举办以科学、帝国和印度植物遗产为主题的展览和其他相关活动，发展公众参与，吸引新的受众和用户群体。1.第一个展览将于2017年在印度加尔各答的印度博物馆举办，主题是植物学家j·d·胡克（J.D.Hooker）的生平、工作和印度。这次展览强调了该网络的影响，该网络建立在邱园、BSI、印度博物馆和苏塞克斯大学CWEH之间的合作基础上。胡克是邱园的园长（1865-1885），当时以邱园为中心的植物学和植物园网络在英国帝国主义的计划中发挥了重要作用。他在印度进行了广泛的旅行，是《英属印度植物志》（1872-97）的主要作者，这是迄今为止出版的唯一一本印度植物志。展览本身将以以前在邱园举办的展览的复制品为基础，改编并增加了来自BSI和其他印度机构的收藏，这些机构持有与胡克有关的材料。第二个展览名为“科学与帝国”，由BL策划，将制作一个类似的“弹出式”展览，将在德里的NMNH举办。这次展览以图书馆成功的巡回展览为蓝本，将包括九个设计精美的展板，以图书馆的印度办事处记录、私人文件、印度语言的书籍和手稿以及视觉材料的历史收藏为摹本。小组讨论将涵盖下列主题：林业；健康和疾病；灌溉;植物学;地质学;建筑环境。这些展板展示了个人日记和信件、政府文件、地图、计划、小册子、照片、绘画和素描的复制品，将展示1700年至1950年期间帝国对印度自然和建筑环境的影响。图书馆在这方面的馆藏还得到印度馆藏的补充。我们会邀请英国文化协会安排具体事宜，因为英国文化协会曾协助过BL较早举办的展览，并已表示支持这种灵活的展览。预计将在科钦和迈索尔巡回展出。加尔各答展览的开幕将以公开会议为标志，来自相关学科的国际演讲者将发表演讲。展览和会议都将强调印度、印度机构和人民在科学植物学发展中的重要性及其在殖民主义项目中的中心地位，同时增加印度学者、学生和公众对印度植物遗产的了解和参与。4.两所当地学校将参与一个试点项目，通过让学生了解大英帝国的自然历史收集实践、印度当地社区共同构建植物学知识，以及让他们对南亚濒危植物的保护感兴趣，来吸引学生。这次活动的时间选择在Hooker成立200周年之际，这将使展览和会议既受益于也有助于英国纪念活动的重大宣传。该项目利用了先前资助的印度洋植物和气象历史合作研究网络（1600-1900）的支持下所做的工作。其主要目的是在学术界之外传播研究成果，扭转了科学研究材料的积累和从英国到全球南方的知识生产叙事。

Building on the earlier network grant on the Botanical and Meteorological history of the Indian Ocean which included holding institutions such as libraries and museums and academics this proposal aims to develop public engagement and reach new audiences and user communities by staging 2 exhibitions and other related events linked by the theme of science and empire and Indian botanical heritage. 1.The first will be a major exhibition on the life and work of the botanist J.D.Hooker and India in the year of his bi-centenary, 2017, at the Indian Museum in Kolkata, India. This exhibition highlights the impact of the network by building on a collaboration between Kew, the BSI, the Indian Museum and CWEH at the University of Sussex. Hooker was the director of Kew (1865-1885) at a time when botany, and the network of botanical gardens, centered on Kew, played a major role in the project of British imperialism. He traveled extensively in India and was the main author of the Flora of British India (1872-97), the only flora of India yet published. The exhibition itself will be based on facsimiles of the exhibition previously developed at Kew, adapted and augmented with collections from the BSI, and other Indian institutions, which hold materials relating to Hooker. 2. The second exhibition entitled, 'Science and Empire' curated by the BL will produce a facsimile 'pop-up' exhibition, which will be hosted at the NMNH in Delhi. Modelled on the Library's successful touring exhibition, this exhibition will comprise nine attractively-designed panels of facsimile materials drawn from the Library's historic collections of India Office Records, private papers, books and manuscripts in Indian languages, and visual materials. The panels will cover the following themes: forestry; health and disease; irrigation; botany; geology; built environment. Displaying facsimiles of personal diaries and correspondence, government documents, maps, plans, pamphlets, photographs, paintings and drawings, the panels will create a picture of the impact of empire upon the natural and built environment of India over the period 1700 to 1950. The Library's holdings in this area are complemented by collections in India.The British Council will be invited to arrange the practicalities as they have facilitated an earlier exhibition by the BL and has already expressed support for this kind of flexible exhibition. It is expected that the exhibition will tour in Cochin and Mysore.3. The opening of the Kolkata exhibition will be marked by a public conference with contributions from international speakers working in related disciplines. Both the exhibition and the conference will highlight the importance of India, Indian institutions and people in the development of scientific botany and its centrality to the project of colonialism, while increasing knowledge of, and engagement with India's botanical heritage among Indian academics, school students and the general public. 4.There will be the involvement of two local schools in a pilot project to engage school children by making them aware of the natural history collecting practices of the British Empire, the co-construction of of botanical knowledge by local communities in India and interesting them in the conservation of endangered flora of South Asia. The timing of the event, in Hooker's bi-centennial year will allow the exhibition and conference to both benefit from and contribute to, the significant publicity which will accompany this anniversary in the U.K. This project capitalizes on the work done under the auspices of the previously funded Network for Collaborative Research on the Botanical and Meteorological History of the Indian Ocean, 1600-1900, with the primary aims of disseminating research beyond the academy reversing both the accumulation of the materials of scientific research and narratives of knowledge production from Britain to the global south.