B ElliottBrent Elliott was the Librarian of the Royal Horticultural Society from 1982 to 2007, and is now the Society's Historian. He is the author of Victorian Gardens (1986), Treasures of the Royal Horticultural Society (1994), The Country House Garden (199), Flora (2001) and The Royal Horticultural Society: A History 1804-2004 (2004). A former editor of Garden History, he is now the editor of Occasional Papers from the RHS Lindley Library; among his contributions to this series are 'Charles Darwin in the British horticultural press' (2010) and 'Eighteenth-century science in the garden' (2011). Luigi Guerrini is a historian specialising in the history of science in Italy in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and particularly in the history of the early Accademia dei Lincei (1603-30). He has held post-doctoral fellowships and research positions in Italy and abroad. He is the editor of the two-volume edition of Federico Cesi's Apiarium (2005-6), the author of I trattati naturalistici di Federico Cesi (2006) and a contributor to Part B.VIII of the Paper Museum, Flora: The Aztec Herbal (2009). David Pegler is the former Head of Mycology at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and co-author of Part B.II: Fungi (2005) in the Paper Museum series. His taxonomic research has specialised in tropical and temperate Basidiomycetes, for which he received a Science Research Council individual merit promotion, and he has published 16 books and more than 300 scientific papers. He is a Fellow of the Linnean Society, London, of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, and Centenary Fellow of the British Mycological Society. He has held visiting professorships at the Institute of Terrestrial Ecology, Lodz, Poland, the Instituto de Botanica, Sao Paulo, Brazil, and the University of Jilin, China. Read More Read Less