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ClusiusStatueLeidenIn 2015, the Hortus botanicus of Leiden University celebrated its 425th birthday. On this occassion several guest-authors wrote monthly blogs about the correspondence of Carolus Clusius, who was the first director of the Leiden botanical garden. You can read their stories on the website of the Hortus botanicus Leiden (in Dutch).

Posted on: December 16th, 2015 by Esther van Gelder No Comments

First release: December 2015

ClusiusCorrespondenceSquareAnd here it is: a digital edition-in-progress of the correspondence of Carolus Clusius, the most famous botanist of the sixteenth century. After years of assembling transcriptions in archives and books, preparing them for digitization, importing images, standardizing metadata, (more…)

Posted on: December 14th, 2015 by Esther van Gelder No Comments