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Acknowledgments I dedicate this book to Thomas Baylis, always my companion as I wrote this book in Austin, then Madison, on Lake Superior, across three continents, and over several years. My work on the book has received generous support, beginning with fellowships from the University of Texas at Austin, the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, and the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center. At the University of Wisconsin–Madison, the Marjorie and Lorin Tiefenthaler Fund, the English Department , the Graduate School, and the Institute for Research in the Humanities have provided time to write. Residential fellowships at the Henry E. Huntington Library and the Yale Center for British Art supported the final stages of research. The National Endowment for the Humanities and the Simon D. Guggenheim Foundation awarded year-long fellowships as I completed this book. I am most grateful to all. Numerous archives and their professional staffs have made this book possible , among them the Botany Library of the Natural History Museum, London, in particular Malcolm Beasley, the librarian, and Judith Magee, now curator for the Natural History Library. At the Library and Herbarium of the Royal Botanic Garden, Kew, James Kay, former assistant curator, Prints and Drawings, willingly made resources at Kew accessible. Gina Douglas, former librarian of the Linnean Society, London, introduced me to the resources of that library early on, and on one visit invited me to ride in a van taking Linnaeus’s butterfly collection across London. Henry J. Noltie, taxonomist at the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, has advised this project with unstinting generosity, answered questions of all kinds, and introduced me to the Indian botanical drawings at Edinburgh and elsewhere. If there are mistakes in this book, he is decidedly not responsible. Peter Stevens and David Mabberley have answered nearly as many questions. Jim Folsom, director of the Huntington Botanical Gardens, and staff members Kitty Connolly and Katrina White have welcomed inquiries and entertained notions. At the Henry E. Huntington Library, Alan Jutzi, Mary Robertson, Steve Tabor, and Jean-Robert Durbin offered archival direction. At the Yale Center for British Art, its Director Amy Meyers and her colleagues, Michael Hatt, Elizabeth Fairman, Gillian Forrester‚ Scott Wilcox‚ Lisa Ford, and Melissa Fournier Gold have x a c k n o w l e d g m e n t s given this project imaginative and archival support. Librarians at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, Robin Rider, Mary Rader, and Elsa E. Althen, have readily responded to inquiries and located documents. Donald C. Johnson, Director Emeritus of the Ames Library of South Asia, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis– St. Paul, guided my early study of Indian textile traditions. For invitations to lecture on parts of this book, I thank Anne Secord and members of the Cabinet of Natural History Seminar at Cambridge University, including James Secord, Nicholas Jardine, and Martin J. S. Rudwick; Sonia Hofkosh and other participants in the Romantic Literature and Culture seminar at Harvard University; Karen Weisman and Alan Bewell at the University of Toronto; Paul Cirico at Cambridge University, Leah Marcus at Vanderbilt University, W. Roger Louis, Director of British Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, and Guillermina de Ferrari at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. I am thankful to colleagues have read chapters of this book and debated its claims: Elizabeth Hedrick, Lisa Moore, Lynn Festa, Aparna Dharwadker, David Clark, B. Venkat Mani, Robin Valenza, Julie Carlson, Daniel White, Deidre Lynch, Richard Sha, Rob Nixon, Anne McClintock , Kevin Gilmartin, and Eric Rothstein. Fernando Vidal, Gábor Zemplén, and seminar participants at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin commented on completed chapters. In India, Deepak Kumar invited me to present my work on Indian botany and the British to other scholars and students at Jawaharlal Nehru University in Delhi. Druv Raina offered a wider historical lens for thinking about European and Indian intellectual exchange. Deepak and Neelam Kumar made us welcome in Delhi. Arun Bandopadhyay hosted our visit to Calcutta and my lecture to his colleagues and students at the University of Calcutta. Aditi Sarkar has long been an intellectual companion to this project, in Ahmedabad and at long distance. Abhay Mangaldas, Head of the House of Mangaldas Girdhardas, kindly introduced me to Mrs. Gina Sarabhai, Chairperson of the Calico Museum of Textiles. Dr. M. Sanjappa, Director of the Botanical Survey of India, and Mrs. Sanjappa welcomed us to Calcutta. Librarians at the Botanical Archives in the Calcutta Botanical Garden in Howrah provided generous access...

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