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Born September 9, 1842 • Portsmouth • New Hampshire
Died December 25, 1899 (aged 57) • Baltimore • Maryland
Notable Works “Key to North American Birds”
Subjects Of Study bird • North America • taxonomy
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Maria Martin
American artist
John James Audubon
John James Audubon
ornithologist, artist, and naturalist
Alexander Wilson, detail of an engraving by W.H. Lizars
Alexander Wilson
Scottish ornithologist
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Charles-Lucien Bonaparte, prince di Canino e di Musignano
French scientist
“Father of American Botany”
Asa Gray
American botanist
David Starr Jordan
David Starr Jordan
American ichthyologist, educator, and eugenicist
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Johannes Müller
German physiologist
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John Gould
British ornithologist
Newton, Alfred
Alfred Newton
British zoologist
Louis Agassiz
Louis Agassiz
Swiss-born American naturalist, geologist, and teacher
E.O. Wilson
E.O. Wilson
American biologist
James D. Dana
James D. Dana
American geologist and mineralogist
Mayr, Ernst
Ernst Mayr
American 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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William Morton Wheeler
American entomologist
Bessey, c. 1910
Charles E. Bessey
American botanist
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Mary Jane Rathbun
American marine zoologist
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David Hendricks Bergey
American bacteriologist
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Charles Atwood Kofoid
American zoologist

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