Quote of the day
A masculine education cannot spare from professional study and the necessary acquisition of languages, the time and attention which I have bestowed on the compositions of my countrymen.
William Francis Ganong
Born: February 19, 1864
Died: September 7, 1941 (aged 77)
Bio: William Francis Ganong, M.A., Ph.D., LL.D., F.R.S.C., was a Canadian botanist, historian and cartographer. His botany career was spent mainly as a professor at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts.
Known for:
- A Textbook of Botany for Colleges (1916)
- The Economic Mollusca of Acadia (1889)







