Life: March 28, 1865 - April 24, 1937
Birthday: March 28
Death: April 24
It was to Hofmeister, working as a young man, an amateur and enthusiast, in the early morning hours of summer months, before business, at Leipzig in the years before 1851, that the vision first appeared of a common type of Life-Cycle, running through Mosses and Ferns to Gymnosperms and Flowering Plants, linking the whole series in one scheme of reproduction and life-history.
source: - Arthur Harry Church, Humphrey John Denham (1919). “Gossypium in Pre-Linnaean Literature”
Topics: Summer, Running, Morning, Leipzig, Ferns
