BLIND BOTANIST'S FEATS
Identified Plants by Touch I and Taste 1 ________ c (Received 2, 1.15 p.m;) | LONDON, March 1. Blind for nearly 60 years, a Leeds , botanist, Mr John Wilkinson, who has , died at the age of 81, learned to dis- ( tinguish plants and flowers by touch and taste. He elaimed that there was no plant in Britain that he could not identify. He could locate over a t.h ; • sand speeimena within 200 miles oi i home. Mr Wilkinson also elaimed that be could identify a man's couuty by his handshake.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 39, 2 March 1937, Page 7
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