In those early years in New York when I was a stranger in a big city, it was the companionship and later friendship which I was offered in the Linnean Society that was the most important thing in my life. — Ernst Mayr

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Mini who’s who:

Ernst Mayr : German Scientist
Born:  July 5, 1904
Died:  February 3, 2005