“...after my first feeling of revulsion had passed, I spent three of the most entertaining and instructive weeks of my life studying the fascinating molds which appeared one by one on the slowly disintegrating mass of horse-dung. Microscopic molds are both very beautiful and absorbingly interesting. The rapid growth of their spores, the way they live on each other, the manner in which the different forms come and go, is so amazing and varied that I believe a man could spend his life and not exhaust the forms or problems contained in one plate of manure.”
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David Fairchild
David Fairchild was a renowned botanist, born on April 7, 1869, and died on August 6, 1954. He is known for his contributions to plant introduction and agricultural improvement. more
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Source: History of His Own Time: From the revolution to the conclusion of the treaty of peace at Utrecht, in the reign of Queen Anne : to which is added the author's life
“I ended up majoring in English, which I'm not particularly fluent in.”