{"id":565,"date":"2017-08-24T11:37:34","date_gmt":"2017-08-24T10:37:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/?p=565"},"modified":"2017-08-24T11:40:23","modified_gmt":"2017-08-24T10:40:23","slug":"565","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/?p=565","title":{"rendered":"Economic botany and the Macintoshes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_566\" style=\"width: 635px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/IMG_20170822_163129743-COLLAGE.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-566\" class=\"size-large wp-image-566\" src=\"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/IMG_20170822_163129743-COLLAGE-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Items in the Kew Economic Botany Collection relating to George and Charles Macintosh.\" width=\"625\" height=\"625\" srcset=\"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/IMG_20170822_163129743-COLLAGE-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/IMG_20170822_163129743-COLLAGE-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/IMG_20170822_163129743-COLLAGE-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/IMG_20170822_163129743-COLLAGE-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/IMG_20170822_163129743-COLLAGE-624x624.jpg 624w, https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/IMG_20170822_163129743-COLLAGE.jpg 2046w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-566\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Items in the Kew Economic Botany Collection relating to George and Charles Macintosh.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I was fortunate to spend Tuesday at Kew Gardens, interviewing candidates for an AHRC-funded PhD studentship working with the Economic Botany Collection. While I was there, the keepers of the collection were kind enough to look out some specimens relating to the work of George and Charles Macintosh (respectively William Macintosh&#8217;s brother and nephew).<\/p>\n<p>Clockwise from the top left, these specimens included: 1) a <a href=\"http:\/\/apps.kew.org\/ecbot\/specimen\/44144\">coutchouc ball and cup<\/a>; 2) a decorated rubber bottle, 3) a specimen of Macintosh\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/apps.kew.org\/ecbot\/specimen\/44082\">waterproofed fabric<\/a>, and 4) a bottle of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/apps.kew.org\/ecbot\/specimen\/99207\">powdered cudbear lichen<\/a> (of the sort used by George in his cudbear dying works). Most of these were donated by Charles Macintosh &amp; Co. in the mid 1850s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was fortunate to spend Tuesday at Kew Gardens, interviewing candidates for an AHRC-funded PhD studentship working with the Economic Botany Collection. While I was there, the keepers of the collection were kind enough to look out some specimens relating to the work of George and Charles Macintosh (respectively William Macintosh&#8217;s brother and nephew). Clockwise [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=565"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":570,"href":"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565\/revisions\/570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}