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| | The American Society of Pharmacognosy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07) |
 | | Arthur Stewart Barclay, 71, a retired government botanist who was credited with harvesting the original sample of a plant that was developed into the cancer-fighting drug Taxol, died Nov. 6, [2003] at a hospital in Orlando, Fla., after a heart attack. |
 | | In 1962, Dr. Barclay led a team of botanists from the U.S. Department of Agriculture on a plant expedition in the state of Washington, where he collected bark from the evergreen tree taxus brevifolia, commonly known as the Pacific Yew. |
 | | Barclay, who moved to Florida in 1999, was born in Minneapolis and raised in Tulsa, Okla. His parents taught at the University of Tulsa, from which he graduated. |
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