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3 unusual facts about Willis Linn Jepson


Mary Bowerman

Her doctoral advisor was famed California botanist Willis Linn Jepson; she was his last surviving student.

Willis Linn Jepson

Willis Linn Jepson was 25 years old in 1892, when he, John Muir and Warren Olney, at an attorney's office in San Francisco, formed the Sierra Club.

The Saxifragaceae genus Jepsonia and host of commemorative specific plants are named after him.



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