TO every science, works which bring together the data of the subject are essential, and to none more so than to palæobotany, which is based on the correlation of fragmentary remains from all ...

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 ...

(This book is a follow-up to “The Mexican Lunch ... What it was designed to do, its influence on worldwide botany and economy, and its complete disappearance from horticultural history are ...