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THE ORCHIDS OF THE CAPE PENINSULA by Harry Bolus
Cape Town: Darter Bros. & Co., 1918
8vo, xxxiii + 141pp. + 119 plates. Original hardcover binding with gilt lettering to spine and front board. With 119 full colour plates. Collated and complete.
Harry Bolus (1834-1911) was a South African botanist, botanical artist, businessman and philanthropist. He advanced botany in South Africa by establishing bursaries, founding the Bolus Herbarium and bequeathing his library and a large part of his fortune to the South African College (now the University of Cape Town). Active in scientific circles, he was a Fellow of the Linnean Society, member and president of the South African Philosophical Society (later the Royal Society of South Africa). He received the SA Medal and Grant by the SA Association for the Advancement of Science and an honorary D.Sc. from the University of the Cape of Good Hope.
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