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I'm Tracy V. Wilson.

And I'm Holly Fry.

A few weeks ago, I took a Tracy V. Wilson. And I'm Holly Fry.

A few weeks ago, I took a little trip to England.

And while I was there, I took the train to Oxford,

and I visited the Ashmolean Museum.

They currently have an exhibit called In Bloom, How Plants Changed Our World.

And I really enjoyed that.

And one of the things I saw in that exhibition was a facsimile of Elizabeth Blackwell's book, A Curious Herbal.

There's a longer title than that, which we will be reading later.

I'm saving it.

I'm savoring the long title.

So I knew this was a different Elizabeth Blackwell from the one we have covered on the show before, who became the first woman in the U.S. to earn an MD in 1849. Our episode on that Elizabeth

Blackwell came out in 2014. This Elizabeth Blackwell was born in London, more than a century before the American Dr. Blackwell,

and was known for her achievements as a botanical illustrator.

And if you read articles about Elizabeth Blackwell, including fairly recent ones,

it is very possible to highly likely that you will get some incorrect details about who she was and where she was born.

Some of these errors actually date back to her own lifetime, and then they were repeated and embellished in the decades that followed.

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