Contents:
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 1. Why Succulents? 
 2. Prehistory 
 3. Classical Era - The Dawn of Science 
 4. The Garden & the Glasshouse 
 5. Middle Ages 
 6. Herbals - from Gerard to Ray 
 7. The Age of Richard Bradley - A Disincornufistibilated Servant of Botany 
 8. Linnaeus - A Place for Everything, and Everything in its Place 
 9. The Linnaean Legacy 
10. Travels and Introductions 
11. The Age of Haworth 
12. The Microscope and what it revealed 
13. The First Cactus Cornucopia 
14. Literature on Succulents - (1) Text 
15. Literature on Succulents - (2) Pictures 
16. Charles Darwin and the Four Dimensions 
17. Brown, Schumann, Berger and Poellnitz 
18. Engelmann, Blanc, Britton and Rose 
19. Succulents after Britton and Rose 
20. Amateur Societies and Journals 
21. Aesthetics - Succulents as Objets d'Art? 
22. From Mesembryanthemum to Mesembryanthemaceae 
23. The Twentieth Century in Epitome 
24. Succulentist Biofile