William Alphonso Murrill: The Naturalist

For the casual naturalist, William Alphonso Murrill's name is associated with a plethora of new species of fungi, his mysterious resignation from the New York Botanical Garden, his disappearance from New York, and rediscovery as a free spirit in Florida. Pivotal were his years in New York City, of course, but the process through which he arrived there, the people who acted to shape him, and his ac...