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Baptized September 26, 1641
Died March 25, 1712 • London • England
Notable Works “The Anatomy of Plants” • “The Anatomy of Vegetables Begun”
Subjects Of Study plant

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Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin
British naturalist
Stephen Hales
Stephen Hales
English scientist
Thomas Nuttall, engraving by Thomson, 1825, after a drawing by W. Derby
Thomas Nuttall
British naturalist
Carolus Linnaeus
Carolus Linnaeus
Swedish botanist
Gregor Mendel
Gregor Mendel
botanist
William Hyde Wollaston
William Hyde Wollaston
British scientist
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Frederic Edward Clements
American botanist, taxonomist, and ecologist
Ynes Enriquetta Julietta Mexia
Ynes Enriquetta Julietta Mexia
American botanist
Brown, Robert
Robert Brown
Scottish botanist
“Father of American Botany”
Asa Gray
American botanist
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Henry Chandler Cowles
American botanist
Title page of Flora Boreali-Americana by Andre Michaux (1746-1802), printed in 1803,
André Michaux
French botanist
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Julius von Sachs
German botanist
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Augustin Pyrame de Candolle
Swiss botanist
David Fairchild
David Fairchild
American botanist
Albrecht von Haller, detail of an engraving by Ambroise Tardieu after a portrait by Sigmund Freudenberger
Albrecht von Haller
Swiss biologist
David Douglas
David Douglas
Scottish botanist
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Christian Konrad Sprengel
German botanist
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George Ledyard Stebbins, Jr.
American botanist
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Bernard Ogilvie Dodge
American botanist

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