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Annals of Botany 2009 103(1):vii; doi:10.1093/aob/mcn224
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G. Ledyard Stebbins. The ladyslipper and I

G. Ledyard Stebbins. The ladyslipper and I.
VC Hollowell, VB Smocovitis, EP Duggan. eds. 2007.
St. Louis: Missouri Botanic Garden Press. $35 (hardback). 173 pp.

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Published in December, 2007 this collection of fascinating autobiographical narratives, vignettes and insights narrowly missed formal coincidence with the celebration of the 150th anniversary of the reading of Darwin and Wallace's papers on Natural Selection at the Linnean Society in July 1858. This in a way is sad since G. Ledyard Stebbins' contribution to the elaboration and diffusion of evolutionary theory and its linked themes of biological diversity, speciation, classification and conservation deserves a corresponding celebration. This book, which does much to reveal the influences personalities and events that surrounded Stebbins' life and achievement, has a very modest tone . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Steve Hughes

E-mail s.g.hughes@exeter.ac.uk


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