Word: leeuwen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spore, must have been wiped out by lava, ash, gas and steam, that if life again took root on the islands it must come from outside. A minutely detailed story of vegetable life on Krakatau since the catastrophe has now been published in Leiden by W. M. Docters van Leeuwen and was reviewed last week in the British journal Nature. In 1886, one-celled water plants, ferns and mosses had already established themselves. In 1905 a visitor found a large cycad (palmlike tree). Now the islands are covered with vegetation including tall trees, luxuriant shrubbery and thick grasses, comprising...