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[Dr. Neil Snow]

There have been lot of sad days (or weeks) in the history of botany.

The large number of endemic vascular plant species that formerly existed on Centinela ridge in Ecuador comes to
mind.  The figure of about 90 endemic species along that ridge has been reported (see "The Diversity of Life"
by E.O. Wilson, pp. 243-244).  Evidently, the majority of these became extinct when the bulldozers came in to
clear for agriculture.

Jerry Bricker wrote:

> I have a copy of the Ecology paper and the 1964 year is correct.  I'm
> actually looking for the day of the month (I assume it was August of
> 1964) that the dead was done.  I'm covering the Pinophyta in my
> botany class next week and I was going to talk about the saddest day
> in the history of botany.
>
> JB
>
> >Jerry,
> >
> >       It looks like Ken Kinman was right on the date.  I ran across
> >the reference below that uses the same time frame.
> >
> >http://botany.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?once=true&site=http://www.sonic.net/bristlecone/Martyr.html
> >
> >Cheers,
> >
> >John
> >--
> >John C. Landolt
> >Department of Biology
> >Shepherd College
> >Shepherdstown, WV 25443 U.S.A.
> >jlandolt at shepherd.edu
>
> --
>
> _______________________________________
>
> Jerry Bricker
> Department of Biological Sciences
> Cameron University
> 2800 W. Gore Blvd.
> Lawton, OK 73505
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> E-mail: jeraldbr at cameron.edu
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>
> "If it disagrees with experiment, it  s wrong. In that simple
> statement is the key to science. It doesn  t matter how beautiful the
> theory is, how smart you are, or what your name is - if it disagrees
> with experiment, it  s wrong."
>
> Richard P. Feyman