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.