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From the 1950s onward he expanded his interest to gathering seeds and plants from the US and worldwide, donating many endangered plants to collections such as
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Despite his distinguished work, he documented little of it, and his main published work was
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Life and Achievements of Sir Harold Hillier (1905–1985)
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