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Cover Figure


Holly tree

The engraving on the cover, the Holly tree, is taken from one of the hand-coloured classics of natural history in the library of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh: Elizabeth Blackwell's A Curious Herbal (London, 1737). It is reproduced here by kind permission of the College. The ‘curious’ of the title is an archaic usage meaning accurate and precise.



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