Why did the chicken cross the road?
To maintain adequate social distancing
Johann Jakob DilleniusDied 2 Apr 1747 (born 1687).German-born English botanist who wrote several descriptive works on plants, with a primary interest in crytogams. In 1721, having been offered work as a botanist with William Sherard, he moved to England, and eventually became Sherardian professor of botany at Oxford University. He described and illustrated plants in the Eltham garden of James Sherard in Kent. A new classification of lower plants he introduced (Historia muscorum, 1741) is still partially in use today.« |
