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Born December 16, 1859 • Detroit • Michigan
Died February 24, 1953 (aged 93) • Palo Alto • California
Notable Works “Evolution of the Land Plants” • “The Structure and Development of Mosses and Ferns”
Subjects Of Study fern • moss • vascular plant • evolution • sexual reproduction

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Frederick Orpen Bower, detail of an oil painting by Sir William Orpen; in the University of Glasgow Art Collections
Frederick Orpen Bower
English botanist
Moss specialist
Elizabeth Gertrude Knight Britton
American botanist
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Albert Francis Blakeslee
American botanist
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Edward Charles Jeffrey
American botanist
Charles Chamberlain, 1925
Charles Joseph Chamberlain
American botanist
Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin
British naturalist
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
French biologist
Hooker, Sir William Jackson
Sir William Jackson Hooker
British botanist
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Hugo de Vries
Dutch botanist and geneticist
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Christian Konrad Sprengel
German botanist
George Bentham, oil painting by Lewis Dickensen, 1870; in the collection of the Linnean Society of London
George Bentham
British botanist
Nathanael Pringsheim.
Nathanael Pringsheim
German botanist
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Josef Gottlieb Kölreuter
German botanist
Johann Hedwig, detail from an engraving, 1793
Johann Hedwig
Transylvanian botanist
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Rudolph Jacob Camerarius
German botanist
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Amos Eaton
American botanist, geologist, and lawyer
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John Coulter
American botanist
Alfred Sherwood Romer, 1965
Alfred Sherwood Romer
American biologist
James D. Dana
James D. Dana
American geologist and mineralogist
Portrait of William Bartram
William Bartram
American naturalist, botanist, and artist

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