Writer and professor Charles Kingsley was born...

Writer and professor Charles Kingsley was born June 12, 1819. He coined the term pteridomania (fern fever), describing the Victorian frenzy for ferns, in his 1855 book Glaucus.
- June 12, 2011 (11:19 am)
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