Jurriaan de Vos speaks at the Basel Botanical Society
This year marked the 200 year anniversary of the Flora of Basel of CF Hagenbach. The publication was a landmark for the regional flora, of unprecedented detail, in three parts published over 25 years. It filled a void of 200 years since the very first local flora of Basel, published in 1622 by Caspar Bauhin, the first Professor of Botany (and Anatomy) at the University of Basel. Our Curator of the Herbaria and Botanical Garden, Jurriaan de Vos, joined forces with the now retired Curator Heinz Schneider to present a public lecture, hosted by the Basel Botanical Society, with an analysis of its contents (Schneider) and discussion of its historical significance (de Vos).