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2 unusual facts about Carlos Luigi Spegazzini


Carlos Luigi Spegazzini

In a 1924 Mycologia publication, William Murrill recounted his time visiting with Spegazzini, who was then 66 years old: Dr Spegazzini is an old man, but strong in body, young in thought, and still full of the spirit of adventure.

He was a professor at the University of La Plata and Buenos Aires in Argentina, curator of the herbarium of the National Department of Agriculture, first head of the herbarium of Museo de la Plata, and founder of an arboretum and an institute of mycology in La Plata city.



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