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Born October 7, 1847 • Bohemia
Died February 21, 1902 (aged 54) • Vienna • Austria
Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin
British naturalist
Sloane, detail of an oil painting by S. Slaughter, 1736; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Sir Hans Sloane, Baronet
British physician
Akeley, Carl E.
Carl E. Akeley
American naturalist and explorer
Baird, Spencer Fullerton
Spencer Fullerton Baird
American naturalist
Thomas Nuttall, engraving by Thomson, 1825, after a drawing by W. Derby
Thomas Nuttall
British naturalist
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Addison Emery Verrill
American zoologist
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John Bartram
American naturalist
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John Tradescant
British naturalist
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Amos Eaton
American botanist, geologist, and lawyer
Alexander von Humboldt
Alexander von Humboldt
German explorer and naturalist
British naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace
Alfred Russel Wallace
British naturalist
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
French biologist
Louis Agassiz
Louis Agassiz
Swiss-born American naturalist, geologist, and teacher
James Hutton
James Hutton
Scottish geologist
John Muir
John Muir
Scottish-born American naturalist
John Ray, detail of an oil painting; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
John Ray
English naturalist
Ferdinand Cohn
Ferdinand Cohn
German botanist
Conrad Gesner.
Conrad Gesner
Swiss physician and naturalist
Ynes Enriquetta Julietta Mexia
Ynes Enriquetta Julietta Mexia
American botanist
Brown, Robert
Robert Brown
Scottish botanist