Content Description From the Collection: The first portion of this volume contains the manuscript of a talk given by Harveian librarian Joseph Frank Payne (1840–1910) to the Royal College of Physicians. The purpose of the speech (ca.75 typescript pages), given 21 January 1901, was to “describe the earliest printed books in European literature devoted to the illustration of Natural History; to fix the date and order of the several works known by the names of ‘Herbarius’ and ‘Hortus Sanitatis’; to show their connection with one...