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Kolb, our Asterales series is a stately addition to the Paperblanks collection and one that celebrates the harmony between art and science.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe binding was originally designed to contain a Latin oration on the physiology of plants by the renowned Dutch botanist Willem Hendrik de Vriese (1806–1862). De Vriese was a member of the Royal Dutch Institute of Sciences, Literature and Fine Arts and, in his studies, named many species of plants in the Asterales order (Asterids). He practiced medicine in Rotterdam, where he also taught classes in botany at the medical school. 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