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The progress of botany, as of other sciences, comes from the interaction of so many factors that undue emphasis on any one can give a very distorted impression of the whole, but certainly among the most important of these for any given period are the prevailing ideas and intellectual attitudes, the assumptions and stimuli of the time, for often upon them depends the extent to which a particular study attracts an unbroken succession of men of industry and originality intent on building a system of knowledge and communicating it successfully to others of like mind.

William T. Stearn

William T. Stearn

William T. Stearn

Born: April 16, 1911

Died: May 9, 2001 (aged 90)

Bio: Professor William Thomas Stearn, VMH was a British botanist. Born in Cambridge in 1911, he was largely self-educated, and developed an early interest in books and natural history.

Known for:

Botanical Latin (1966)
Flower artists of Kew (1990)

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