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William Curtis: Founder of Curtis’s Botanical Magazine and the London Botanic Garden

William Curtis (1746-1799), an English botanist and entomologist. He is most famous for founding Curtis's Botanical Magazine in 1787, which is still published today and is the longest-running botanical magazine.

Flora Londiniensis January 11, 1746 (see comment below) Today is the birthday of the botanist, entomologist, and founder of the influential Curtis Botanical Magazine, William Curtis. William had started life as an apothecary, but in short order, he discovered that it could not hold his interest. Sir James Edward Smith recalled that William loved being…

January 11, 2021 Regenerative Grower New Year’s Resolutions, William Curtis, Plough Monday, Rosemary Verey’s Wintersweet, A Place to Call Home by James Farmer, and the Persistent Peter Forsskål

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William Curtis and the Legacy of Curtis’s Botanical Magazine

Pudding and Praise Today is the anniversary of the death of the botanist and entomologist William Curtis, the creator, and publisher of the influential Curtis Botanical Magazine. William founded the magazine in 1787. Curtis Botanical Magazine made him wealthy, and he often remarked that it had brought him “pudding and praise”. William had started out…