Prometheus

[Jerry Bricker]

Please reread my e-mail message again.  At no time did I accuse
anyone of a "dirty deed."  Look up the word deed in your dictionary
and you will see it defined as "something done."  That's how I used
the word (although I spelled it incorrectly) and that was how I
intended my message to be read.

On the other hand, no matter what the circumstances of the events
leading up to the cutting of Prometheus, the outcome was the same.
In the morning the oldest living vascular plant was alive and well
and by nightfall it was dead.  I define that as a sad day in the
history of botany.

JB

>At 01:51 PM 3/1/02 -0600, you wrote:
>>I have a copy of the Ecology paper and the 1964 year is correct.  I'm
>>actually looking for the day of the month (I assume it was August of
>>1964) that the dead was done.  I'm covering the Pinophyta in my
>>botany class next week and I was going to talk about the saddest day
>>in the history of botany.
>>
>>JB
>>
>>
>>>Jerry,
>>
>    A little caution is due on this case. I was told by my major professor
>that they were studying the bristlecone pines and coring to get the age.
>The borrer got stuck in the tree and was very expensive so they cut down
>the tree to get it out. Then they found that it was the oldest tree. Don't
>accuse someone of doing a "dirty deed" unless you know the facts.
>
>C. Wetmore
>Univ. of Minnesota


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Jerry Bricker
Department of Biological Sciences
Cameron University
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"If it disagrees with experiment, it  s wrong. In that simple
statement is the key to science. It doesn  t matter how beautiful the
theory is, how smart you are, or what your name is - if it disagrees
with experiment, it  s wrong."

Richard P. Feyman