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The evidence seems to show beyond question that our present species of plants have descended by gradual evolution from simpler and fewer species which formerly existed, and which in turn were evolved from still simpler and fewer kinds - back, it is possible, to a single kind which throve in remotest antiquity.

William Francis Ganong

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William Francis Ganong

William Francis Ganong
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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:
  1. A Textbook of Botany for Colleges (1916)
  2. The Economic Mollusca of Acadia (1889)

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