THE third edition of “English Botany” was begun just thirty years since by Dr. Boswell (then Syme), and continued at somewhat uncertain intervals, the flowering plants being completed in 1872. The ...

THE series of volumes known as “English Botany” was begun in 1790 by James Sowerby, the botanic artist, who engaged Dr. James Edward Smith, the possessor of the Linnean collections and founder of the ...

My list of medically related anniversaries for 2026 includes William Withering’s Botany, The Botanical Arrangement of All the Vegetables Naturally Growing in Great Britain , which was published 250 ...