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The Bolus Herbarium Library developed from its origins as a taxonomic library and now contains a comprehensive collection of works relating to South African systematic and geographical botany, as well as extensive modern literature on evolutionary biology. It is likely that when Harry Bolus first became interested in South African flora in 1865 (see Bolus Herbarium), Thunberg's Flora Capensis and the first two volumes of Harvey and Sonder's Flora Capensis and perhaps Harvey's Genera of South African plants were all that were available to him. Today, the Bolus Library contains a great wealth of early botanical works by early travellers who visited southern Africa. Commelin's Horti Medici Amstelodamensis, published in 1697 and 1701, contains descriptions and illustrations of Cape plants taken back to Holland from southern Africa. >>
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