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Born November 18, 1810 • New York • (Birthday in 5 days)
Died January 30, 1888 (aged 77) • Cambridge • Massachusetts
Awards And Honors Hall of Fame (1900)
Notable Works “Darwiniana” • “Gray’s Manual”
Subjects Of Study North America • plant • taxonomy

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“Father of American Botany”
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Bessey, c. 1910
Charles E. Bessey
American botanist
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Katherine Esau
American botanist
Carolus Linnaeus
Carolus Linnaeus
Swedish botanist
Albrecht von Haller, detail of an engraving by Ambroise Tardieu after a portrait by Sigmund Freudenberger
Albrecht von Haller
Swiss biologist
Engler
Adolf Engler
German botanist
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Frederic Edward Clements
American botanist, taxonomist, and ecologist
John Torrey
John Torrey
American botanist and chemist
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Elliott Coues
American ornithologist
John James Audubon
John James Audubon
ornithologist, artist, and naturalist
Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin
British naturalist
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
Brown, Robert
Robert Brown
Scottish botanist
Title page of Flora Boreali-Americana by Andre Michaux (1746-1802), printed in 1803,
André Michaux
French botanist
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Augustin Pyrame de Candolle
Swiss 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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