by Roberto — It was fifteen or twenty years ago, I can't recall the year any more. But I vividly remember walking into Harvard's Farlow Botany Library, being shown to a seat next to an elegant wooden table, and asked to don a pair of white gloves. The protocol stemmed from the fact that I had requested to see an original of the second volume of the journal 'Beiträge zur Biologie der Pflanzen' (Contributions to the Biology of Plants), from 1876. Read more →