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Page showing the second in a series of three pages outlining the vast number of volumes of Flora of Turkey being produced by Peter Davis. This page shows volumes 15 to 28 in a set of cabinets, hand drawn using coloured pencils, with four cut out pictures of Barbie arranged to create an artwork on the back wall. (Decoupage / Collage)

Page showing the last in a series of three pages outlining the vast number of volumes of Flora of Turkey being produced by Peter Davis. This page shows volumes 30 to 42 in a set of cabinets, with Peter Davis in front, asleep in an armchair with a map of Turkey in his lap and an old-fashioned pen on fire, hand drawn using ink and coloured pencils, with a cut out picture of a vase and a gravy boat pasted on top of the shelves. (Decoupage / Collage)

Page showing the first in a series of three pages outlining the vast number of volumes of Flora of Turkey being produced by Peter Davis. This page shows volumes 1 to 14 in a set of cabinets, hand drawn using coloured pencils, with a cut out picture of a cat with ribbon attached for a bow, and a further picture of a cow cut out to create an artwork on the back wall. (Decoupage / Collage)

Paul Aellen was a visitor to the RBGE Herbarium in the Winter of 1964, one of the earliest to the new building opened in June of that year. He worked very diligently in a quiet way on the top floor, researching Turkish Chenopodiaceae. To the amazement of the herbarium staff, just before he returned home to Basle he handed over this delightful and amusing account of his observations on the microcosm of life in theherbarium with photographs, magazine cuttings and beautifully witty pencil and ink sketches.