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Born June 11, 1829 • Geneva • Switzerland
Died June 7, 1907 (aged 77) • Cambridge • England
Notable Works “A Dictionary of Birds”
Subjects Of Study bird

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Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin
British naturalist
James D. Dana
James D. Dana
American geologist and mineralogist
Alexander Wilson, detail of an engraving by W.H. Lizars
Alexander Wilson
Scottish ornithologist
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John Gould
British ornithologist
David Douglas
David Douglas
Scottish botanist
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David Lambert Lack
British author and ornithologist
Alexander von Humboldt
Alexander von Humboldt
German explorer and naturalist
John Ray, detail of an oil painting; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
John Ray
English naturalist
Ynes Enriquetta Julietta Mexia
Ynes Enriquetta Julietta Mexia
American botanist
John James Audubon
John James Audubon
ornithologist, artist, and naturalist
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Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg
German biologist
Magellanic penguin, left (Spheniscus magellanicus), and king shag (Phalacrocorax albiventer), watercolour and pencil by Roger Tory Peterson, from his book Penguins (1979); Houghton Mifflin
Roger Tory Peterson
American ornithologist
Baird, Spencer Fullerton
Spencer Fullerton Baird
American naturalist
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Dumas Malone
American historian, editor, and the author
Beebe, William
William Beebe
American biologist and explorer
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Elliott Coues
American ornithologist
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Charles-Lucien Bonaparte, prince di Canino e di Musignano
French scientist
British naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace
Alfred Russel Wallace
British naturalist
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
British botanist
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James Joseph Sylvester
English mathematician

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