Quote of the day
The adoption by Jefferson and the Republicans of the political structure of their opponents is of an importance hardly inferior to that of the adoption of the Constitution by the states.
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)







