Scientific Illustration

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William Curtis (1746-1799) was a trained pharmacist living in
London, whose greater interest was the study of flora and
insects. He maintained a large garden where he grew
beautiful exotic plants, and began publishing the
Curtis Botanical Magazine in 1787. This digital presentation
represents one thousand fifty records, one thousand forty-eight
plates, (two of the original plates are missing, plates 797 & 860),
and there are one thousand four hundred fifty-six related pages of
text from the first 26 volumes.
 
A collection of the first 164 volumes is housed at
the National Agricultural Library in Beltsville, Maryland.
 
Although it has gone through many iterations, Curtis’ magazine
is still being published today.

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