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      <image:title>Events - Nuala Caomhanach (Geneva Graduate Institute): Collecting Rarity: The Conundrum of Instructing and Constructing - Histories of Malagasy Endemism from Colonial Plant Specimens - Make it stand out</image:title>
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    <loc>https://instructingnaturalhistory.com/events/anna-svensson-uppsala-university-pocket-books-and-floating-libraries-books-as-collecting-tools-in-instructions-to-travelers</loc>
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    <lastmod>2025-12-08</lastmod>
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    <loc>https://instructingnaturalhistory.com/events/t7z22scrj9vbher5k35v9e1azqavu9</loc>
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    <lastmod>2025-11-20</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Events - Linda Andersson Burnett and Bruce Buchan - Book Launch - Race and the Scottish Enlightenment: A Colonial History, 1750-1820</image:title>
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    <loc>https://instructingnaturalhistory.com/events/yvr14nvmwgd2fls19delanhrncl0ba</loc>
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    <lastmod>2025-09-15</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Events - Stefano Gulizia: Dispatching Authority: Sovereignty and Natural Encounters with Spanish American Science - Make it stand out</image:title>
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    <loc>https://instructingnaturalhistory.com/events/writing-science-in-the-nineteenth-century-british-womens-correspondence-networks-cnrs-international-emerging-actions-womnh19-26-may-2025-uppsala-university</loc>
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    <lastmod>2025-05-09</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Events - Writing Science in the Nineteenth Century: British Women’s Correspondence Networks - CNRS International Emerging Actions WOMNH 19 - Make it stand out</image:title>
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    <loc>https://instructingnaturalhistory.com/events/making-colonial-laboratories-investigating-the-role-of-suggestions-and-instructions-in-managing-the-aburi-botanic-gardens</loc>
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    <lastmod>2025-05-09</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Events - Nathan Bossoh (Southampton University) - Making Colonial Laboratories: Investigating the Role of Suggestions and Instructions in Managing the Aburi Botanic Gardens - Make it stand out</image:title>
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    <loc>https://instructingnaturalhistory.com/events/jens-amborg-uppsala-university-extracting-race-instructions-for-french-horse-breeding-missions-in-eighteenth-century-tripoli</loc>
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    <lastmod>2025-03-25</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Events - Jens Amborg (Uppsala University) - Extracting Race: Instructions for French Horse Breeding Missions in Eighteenth-Century Tripoli - Make it stand out</image:title>
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    <loc>https://instructingnaturalhistory.com/events/seminar-anita-guerrini-oregon-state-university-the-land-of-true-britons-edward-lhwyds-survey-of-wales</loc>
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    <lastmod>2025-02-20</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Events - Seminar - Anita Guerrini (Oregon State University): The Land of True Britons: Edward Lhwyd’s Survey of Wales - In 1695, after completing the chapters on Wales for a new edition of Camden’s Britannia, the Welsh naturalist Edward Lhwyd (1660-1709) published A Design of a British Dictionary, Historical and Geographical; With an Essay, Intituled, Archaeologia Britannica: and a Natural History of Wales, outlining a multi-volume project for which he sought patronage. Two years later Lhwyd distributed 4000 copies of ‘Parochial Queries’ for potential informants.  Predecessors for such queries included Robert Boyle’s ‘General Heads’, Lhwyd’s mentor Robert Plot, the Scottish physician Robert Sibbald, and queries from the 1650s on Irish resettlement. Lhwyd argued that the Welsh were the indigenous inhabitants of Britain, which had been colonized over time by the Romans and others. The first volume of Archaeologia Britannica (1707) compared Welsh with other Celtic languages to make this case. Lhwyd’s project was one of preservation and documentation against English cultural and linguistic hegemony.</image:title>
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    <loc>https://instructingnaturalhistory.com/events/seminar-matthew-daniel-eddy-durham-university-information-against-empire-parliamentary-instructions-colonial-databanks-and-the-subversion-of-racialised-health</loc>
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    <lastmod>2024-10-24</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Events - Seminar - Matthew Daniel Eddy (Durham University): Information Against Empire: Parliamentary Instructions, Colonial Databanks and the Subversion of Racialised Health - Make it stand out</image:title>
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    <loc>https://instructingnaturalhistory.com/events/prize-questions-as-instructions-useful-colonial-knowledge-in-the-batavian-society-of-arts-and-sciences-1770-1800</loc>
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    <lastmod>2024-10-07</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Events - Seminar - Maria Florutau (Uppsala University): Prize questions as instructions: useful colonial knowledge in the Batavian Society of Arts and Sciences (1770-1800)</image:title>
      <image:caption>Weduwe van Jacob van Meurs - Gezicht op de Tijgersgracht te Batavia, 1682, Wikimedia Commons</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://instructingnaturalhistory.com/events/seminar-laurence-talairach-university-of-toulouse-jean-jaurs-and-alexandre-koyr-centre</loc>
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    <lastmod>2024-10-21</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Events - Seminar - Laurence Talairach  (University of Toulouse Jean Jaurès and Alexandre Koyré Centre): Women Instructing Women: Shaping Communities of Seaweeders in Nineteenth-Century Britain - Make it stand out</image:title>
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    <loc>https://instructingnaturalhistory.com/events/seminar-staffan-mller-wille-university-of-cambridge-and-elena-isayev-university-of-exeter</loc>
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    <lastmod>2024-01-22</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Events - Seminar - Staffan Müller-Wille (University of Cambridge) and Elena Isayev (University of Exeter), Linnaeus in Lapland: Generating Knowledge in Transit</image:title>
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    <loc>https://instructingnaturalhistory.com/events/seminar-bruce-buchan-to-attract-the-attention-of-travellers-instructions-race-and-the-science-of-colonisation-1768-1800</loc>
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    <lastmod>2024-05-06</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Events - Seminar - Bruce Buchan, To “attract the attention of travellers”: Instructions, Race and the Science of Colonisation, 1768-1800 - Make it stand out</image:title>
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    <loc>https://instructingnaturalhistory.com/events/seminar-dominik-hnniger-is-there-a-colony-in-this-text-instructions-and-hidden-colonial-infrastructures</loc>
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    <lastmod>2024-03-25</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Events - Seminar - Dominik Hünniger, Is there a colony in this text? Instructions and (hidden) colonial infrastructures</image:title>
      <image:caption>In all-pervasive and all-encompassing social, political and economic configurations, like colonialism, the underlying infrastructures are often hidden or obscured in the historical records. Historical actors implicitly used these infrastructures, were intrinsically entangled in their networks, or violently subjected to them. Therefore, infrastructures are rarely explicitly mentioned but their importance for European collecting practices and methods has been often stated in recent studies. Colonial or semi-colonial infrastructures, like trade routes, the East and West Indian companies, the slave trade, Christian missions, etc. were essential preconditions for successful collecting. The accumulation of non-European specimens, human remains and artefacts in European museums depended massively on colonial infrastructures and colonial actors who helped along all the processes of object displacement globally. The collecting manuals, however, largely remain silent about collectors’ dependence and involvement in these structures. Many authors of European collecting manuals or instructions addressed suppliers and naturalists, specifically those who travelled abroad. The travelers’ destinations spanned the globe, especially those locales that had already been incorporated into various empires or where about to be forced into the European colonial system. This presentation will bring these hidden or obscured contexts to the foreground again. It will suggest ways in which they can be made visible using sources from Central, Northern and Western Europe from ca. 1700-1850.</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://instructingnaturalhistory.com/events/seminar-nicholas-b-miller-migrating-instructions-wilhelm-hillebrands-mission-to-asia-for-the-kingdom-of-hawaii-18651866</loc>
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    <lastmod>2024-02-22</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Events - Seminar - Nicholas B. Miller, Migrating Instructions: Wilhelm Hillebrand’s Mission to Asia for the Kingdom of Hawai‘i (1865–1866)</image:title>
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    <loc>https://instructingnaturalhistory.com/events/seminar-irina-podgorny-bureaucracy-instructions-and-paperwork-the-gathering-of-data-about-the-three-kingdoms-of-nature-in-the-americas-and-the-genus-megatherium</loc>
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    <lastmod>2024-01-15</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Events - Seminar - Irina Podgorny: Bureaucracy, Instructions, and Paperwork – The Gathering of Data about the Three Kingdoms of Nature in the Americas and the genus MEGATHERIUM</image:title>
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    <loc>https://instructingnaturalhistory.com/events/seminar-millie-schurch-instructing-and-constructing-colonial-institutions-joseph-bankss-kew-gardens</loc>
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    <lastmod>2023-12-10</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Events - Seminar - Millie Schurch: Paper Colonialism: Instructions, Institutions, and the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, 1790-1815 - Make it stand out</image:title>
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    <loc>https://instructingnaturalhistory.com/events/vera-keller-undisciplined-empires-hints-as-a-colonial-genre</loc>
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    <lastmod>2023-09-06</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Events - Seminar - Vera Keller, Undisciplined Empires - Hints as a Colonial Genre - Recent literature on early modern colonialism tends to emphasize the agency of individuals located far from the metropole. It also stresses the role played by contingency and the frequent failure of centralized colonial planning on the ground around the world. Somewhat at odds with these views, an established literature on discipline and empire continues to flourish. In particular, the latter highlights the role that natural knowledge played in organizing and controlling colonial bodies, both human and non-human. This paper offers an alternative view to both these trends by looking at the hint as a key genre of colonialism over the longue durée (17th-19th centuries). Hints were often authored in the metropole and figured prominently in early experimental philosophy and in natural history. They were technologies of extension and extrapolation that allowed individuals to advise travelers about places where they themselves had never been. They were "thrown out" towards the future and across space as a means of soaring beyond prescribed rules. This wildness evolved over time in seemingly more pragmatic 19th-century guidebooks to travelling and collecting. Yet what remained unchanged was the way that the hint embodied ideas of European boldness and genius and their seemingly inevitable advance around the world. To register for the Zoom link, please email instructingnaturalhistory@uu.se Image credit: Johann David Welcker, Allegorie auf dieErerbung von Surinam durch den Grafen Friefdrich Kasimir von Hanau, 1669 (1676). Wikimedia Commons.</image:title>
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    <loc>https://instructingnaturalhistory.com/events/caroline-cornish-a-few-plain-instructions-william-hooker-and-a-manual-of-scientific-enquiry-1849</loc>
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    <lastmod>2023-09-04</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Events - Seminar - Caroline Cornish, ''A few plain instructions": William Hooker and 'A Manual of Scientific Enquiry' (1849)</image:title>
      <image:caption>Britain in the 1840s and ‘50s witnessed the publication of a proliferation of instruction manuals on field collecting, targeted at those travelling in a range of capacities. Collecting institutions and government departments adopted this medium to direct the traveller in a manner that would best serve them in the acquisition of their respective desiderata, be that specimens, artefacts, or observations and recordings of natural phenomena. It was in this context that the British Admiralty published A Manual of Scientific Enquiry: Prepared for the Use of Officers in Her Majesty’s Navy; and Travellers in General in 1849. Edited by astronomer and polymath John Herschel, the Manual contained chapters on what were considered the major sciences of the day, each written by a leading authority in their field. The chapter on botany was written by William Jackson Hooker, director of the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, which had not long previously passed from royal to state ownership.  This paper will examine Hooker’s chapter in detail, teasing out the significance of his stipulations for herbarium and museum specimens. It will consider these within two overlapping contexts: the Baconian empiricist thought which strongly influenced scientific practice in the first half of the 19th century; and the emergent institutionalisation of science in colonial metropoles. In doing so it will address the question: what were the affordances and limitations of instructions written by metropolitan scientists in the mid-19th century?  To register for the Zoom link, please email instructingnaturalhistory@uu.se Image credit: Wikimedia Commons</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://instructingnaturalhistory.com/events/28lr9d0bz1n5e829jqqvmpb1nzdzoj</loc>
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