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ON the last day of 1880 the University of Aberdeen was presented with a herbarium of 1131 specimens of the British Flora, gathered, preserved, named, and localised by an aged country weaver who lives near Alford in Aberdeenshire. He is no ordinary man, as the accumulation of such a botanical collection is alone sufficient to prove. It represents a portion only of the scientific labours of nearly fifty years—for much of these have been destroyed by time and the moth. This remarkable man, who is now a pauper on the parish which has been the scene of his unextinguishable scientific enthusiasm, should be better known to the scientific world, and a short sketch of his life and labours may not be unacceptable to the readers of NATURE.
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JOLLY, W. John Duncan: the Alford Weaver and Botanist . Nature 23, 269–270 (1881). https://doi.org/10.1038/023269a0
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