Swans flying over a frozen lake in Northern Iceland.
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Great Carolus Linnaeus in his naming of this beautifully pink Mallow followed Joseph Pitton de Tournefort (1656-1708). The latter named this mallow for his friend, the Zürich-educated physician and naturalist Jean Rodolphe Lavater. Lavater spent time in England 1704 to at least 1708 when he became a fellow of the Royal Society. In England he befriended Hans Sloane (1660-1753), whose collections helped found the British Museum, the British Library and the Museum of Natural History. Sloane is one of the first in Europe - it is said - who enjoyed chocolate milk; one might imagine Jean Rodolphe and Hans indulging as they traded naturalist gossip perhaps in a garden with this Mallow.
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