This exhibition takes us back over two hundred years, to the fascinating context of the great scientific expeditions of the late ^18th and early ^19th centuries.

This is the story of an adventure between a Spanish doctor, Martin de Sessé y Lacasta (1751-1808 ), and a Mexican botanist, José Mariano Mociño (1757-1820).

It’s also the story of Geneva botanist Augustin-Pyramus de Candolle (1778-1841), who taught in Montpellier and later founded the Geneva Botanical Garden.

Last but not least, it’s the story of the tremendous enthusiasm of dozens of ” ladies of Geneva “, copying hundreds of these drawings in April 1817.