William Trelease

William Trelease (February 22, 1857 – January 1, 1945) was an American botanist, entomologist, explorer, writer and educator. Quotes As our race has advanced in civilization, owing its progress to a more and more rigid division of labor, with the attendant and ever increasing specialization by which each piece of the great machine does its work more perfectly, yet more and more completely loses its direct touch with all but a few of the other parts, most men have lost much of what was at first common to all; and this, perhaps, quite as true as of a knowledge of plants as of anything else. Medical Botany (1897) The development of any department of science is closely connected with its power of interesting men. The Progress Made in Botany During the Nineteenth Century (1901) External links Category:1857 births Category:People from New York (state) Category:Botanists from the United States Category:Cornell University alumni Category:Harvard University staff Category:1945 deaths