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Born September 4, 1865 • Michigan
Died December 16, 1935 (aged 70)
Notable Works “Manual of Grasses of the United States”
Subjects Of Study grass

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Hitchcock, Albert Spear
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Frederic Edward Clements
American botanist, taxonomist, and ecologist
“Father of American Botany”
Asa Gray
American botanist
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Emma Lucy Braun
American botanist and ecologist
Bessey, c. 1910
Charles E. Bessey
American botanist
Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin
British naturalist
Carolus Linnaeus
Carolus Linnaeus
Swedish botanist
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
French biologist
John Ray, detail of an oil painting; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
John Ray
English naturalist
Ferdinand Cohn
Ferdinand Cohn
German botanist
Brown, Robert
Robert Brown
Scottish botanist
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Augustin Pyrame de Candolle
Swiss botanist
Albrecht von Haller, detail of an engraving by Ambroise Tardieu after a portrait by Sigmund Freudenberger
Albrecht von Haller
Swiss biologist
George Bentham, oil painting by Lewis Dickensen, 1870; in the collection of the Linnean Society of London
George Bentham
British botanist
Engler
Adolf Engler
German botanist
Gaspard Bauhin
Gaspard Bauhin
Swiss physician and botanist
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Adolphe-Théodore Brongniart
French botanist
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August Wilhelm Eichler
German botanist
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Joseph Pitton de Tournefort
French botanist and physician
Endlicher, Stephan
Stephan Endlicher
Austrian botanist
John Lindley, engraving, 1865, after a photograph
John Lindley
British botanist

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