The Swedish botanist Carl Peter Thunberg (1743-1828), a physician and pupil of Linnaeus, carried out his most important work in South Africa and Japan. Having studied in Amsterdam and Leiden, he was asked to go plant-hunting in areas where the Dutch East India Company's trading activities were openi[...]
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INSIDE GREETING: Our friends teach us how to fly. 'Second to the right, and straight on till morning.' Peter Pan and the Darling children take flight over London in this charming illustration from Flora White.[...]