The first round of the Best Botanical Illustration Competition ended at the last November midnight. This year we got the artworks of 26 authors to assess.

Dear readers,
the Natural Science Society (Prague, the Czech Republic) and the online magazine BOTANY.cz are pleased to announce the competition for the Best Botanical Illustration of the year 2012. Co-organizers of the competition are the Institute of Experimental Botany of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Department of Experimental Plant Biology at the Charles University in Prague, Department of Philosophy and History of Science at the Charles University in Prague, Botanical Garden of Prague and Granit publishing house. It is already the third year of this competition (past award winners: 2010, 2011).