THERE are not wanting signs that the study of botany is steadily increasing in this country. An immense number of text-books or manuals have been published in English during the last thirty years ...

It sounds like a quaint proverb—“don’t eat your seed corn.” For the scientists at the world’s first seed bank, it was a matter of life, death and honor. For more than two years during ...

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