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Dunkinfield Henry Scott (born Nov. 28, 1854, London, Eng.—died Jan. 29, 1934, Basingstoke, Hampshire) was an English paleobotanist and leading authority of his time on the structure of fossil plants. Scott graduated from Christ Church College, Oxford, in 1876. In 1880 he studied under the German botanist Julius Von Sachs at the University of Würzburg. Scott then held teaching posts at University College in London and the Normal School of Science. In 1892 he became...