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this had reached the letter M by the time of his death.) Sturtevant did not complete his study of food plants before he died, leaving behind some 1600 manuscript pages. What became his posthumously edited and published
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ancestry) and Mary Haight (Legett) Sturtevant. Through a common ancestor, Samuel
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