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Born September 22, 1800 • England
Died September 10, 1884 (aged 83) • London • England
Notable Works “Flora Australiensis” • “Genera Plantarum” • “Handbook of British Flora”
Notable Family Members father Sir Samuel Bentham
Subjects Of Study seed plant • vascular plant • taxonomy

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George Bentham, oil painting by Lewis Dickensen, 1870; in the collection of the Linnean Society of London
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Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin
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John Ray, detail of an oil painting; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
John Ray
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Carolus Linnaeus
Carolus Linnaeus
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Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
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Ferdinand Cohn
Ferdinand Cohn
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Frederic Edward Clements
American botanist, taxonomist, and ecologist
Brown, Robert
Robert Brown
Scottish botanist
“Father of American Botany”
Asa Gray
American botanist
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Augustin Pyrame de Candolle
Swiss 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
Gaspard Bauhin
Gaspard Bauhin
Swiss physician and botanist
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Adolphe-Théodore Brongniart
French botanist
Hitchcock, Albert Spear
Albert Spear Hitchcock
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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
Bessey, c. 1910
Charles E. Bessey
American botanist
Adanson, Michel
Michel Adanson
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