''‘Englishmen are the poorest linI guisls of all,” said Miss L. M. Cranwell. botanist at the Auckland War Memorial Museum, when explaining to a meeting of the Auckland Institute how linguistic difficulties teensurmounted at the iniernationa#bo-tanic-al congress, held at Amsterdam . last September, and attended by ICO* ! representatives from 55 countries. 1 She said the Dutch tvere linguists. ! usually speaking at least one other tongue apart from their otvn. Englisli. French and German trere epolten at the congress to overcome the speech barrier. Xow. more than ever before, there was a tendency for Engj lish to be adopted as the scientific, i medium for botany.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 12887, 13 June 1936, Page 12
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