Quote of the day
It was Nietzsche who first made us conscious of the significance of the individual as a term in the evolutionary process-in that part of the evolutionary process which has still to take place.
Jacob Bigelow

Born: February 27, 1787
Died: January 10, 1879 (aged 91)
Bio: Jacob Bigelow was an American physician and botanist. He was architect of Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and the father of physician Henry Jacob Bigelow.
Known for:
- American medical botany (1817)
- Elements of technology
- A treatise on the materia medica