Talk:Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
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On 10 August 2003, a temperature of 100.6F was recorded at Kew, which is considered by many to be the highest temperature ever recorded in the UK.
No, the UK Met Office site says at http://www.met-office.gov.uk/climate/uk/extremes/index.html that it was at Brogdale, near Faversham in Kent, at 38.5C on 10 August 2003. 38.5 is an English and UK record. So I have removed that sentence - Adrian Pingstone 11:19, 15 May 2006 (UTC)
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- I suspect the reason for the above statement is that there is a widely held view that the Brogdale reading is dubious owing to the sheltered nature of the site. There was a discussion about this in "Weather" magazine in 2003 or 2004. 143.252.80.100 13:49, 20 November 2006 (UTC)
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What is the annual operating budget? Badagnani 07:03, 29 June 2007 (UTC)
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How about adding some of this?: The Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, is responsible for the world’s largest collection of living plants; ... The organisation employs more than 650 scientists and other staff. The living collections include more than 30,000 different kinds of plants, while the herbarium, which is the largest in the world, has over 7 million preserved plant specimens. The library contains more than 750,000 volumes, and the illustrations collection contains more than 175,000 prints and drawings of plants. The Kew site includes four Grade I listed buildings and 36 Grade II listed structures in an internationally significant landscape --- from [1] Malick78 16:27, 2 September 2007 (UTC)
