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The Explorers
A mezzotint of Carl Linnaeus based on the original painting by A. Rosen.

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A time of enlightenment and discovery

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A botanical age defined by a simple device

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A rapidly disappearing natural world

 

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Francis Masson (1741-1805)

Kew's first plant explorer

Erica grandiflora by Henry C.Andrews, from Vol.II of his 'Coloured engravings of heaths,' in 1805


 

 

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