Dick Brummitt - champion of the paraphyletic
Frederick B. Essig (noreply@blogger.com)
Botanist Dick Brummitt passed away on September 18, 2013. I missed the opportunity to post a tribute to him at the time, and September of last year also flew by, so in the waning days of September 2015, I will at least mark the second anniversary of his passing. He is someone we should remember. Who was Dick Brummitt? He had a long productive career as a plant taxonomist, primarily at the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew. He did what taxonomists do. He went into the field collecting specimens,