"It is not only that the bias of elementary es tends to give the whole subject an aloofness which helps to perpetuate the common attitude that Science is something essentially different and apart from the facts of every day life, it is that it makes it difficult for any but a most experienced and able lecturer to introduce the student to the study of plants in the light of the more recent as well as the older phases of botanical knowledge."
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Mabel Rayner
1890 – 1948
(c. 1890-1948) was an English botanist, mycologist and author, or co-author, of several books.
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