Edgar Anderson, Sunflowers, and the Lessons of a Mentor

A portrait of Edgar Anderson, a prominent American botanist.

The Gift of Good Students The botanist Edgar Anderson wrote to his student Charles B Heiser Jr: “Oh stamp collecting, when will taxonomists ever take any interest in being biologists? Once, when I traveled with E.J. Palmer, I went to a good deal of trouble to get a whole sheet of lily pods, and he…

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