The exhibition shows the most important naturalists who visited and worked on the Balearic Islands from the Enlightenment to the mid-20th century. It contains photographs by naturalists and scientists, copies of their main works, various specimens, as well as original items and documents. Some of the main figures include Bonaventura Serra y Ferrer, the botanists H. M. Willkomm and J. Cambessèdes, the biologist Émile Racovitza, the palaeontologist Dorothea Bate, the zoologist Odón de Buen, and the micropalaeontologist Guillem Colom Casasnovas.
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