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Sir Hans Sloane, Baronet: Quick Facts

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Facts

Born April 16, 1660
Died January 11, 1753 (aged 92) • London • England

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Sloane, detail of an oil painting by S. Slaughter, 1736; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Sir Hans Sloane, English physician and naturalist
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Charles Darwin
British naturalist
Sir Joseph Banks, engraving by Ridley, 1802
Sir Joseph Banks
British naturalist
Thomas Nuttall, engraving by Thomson, 1825, after a drawing by W. Derby
Thomas Nuttall
British naturalist
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Alfred Russel Wallace
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David Douglas
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H.W. Bates
British naturalist and explorer
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Alexander von Humboldt
German explorer and naturalist
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Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
French biologist
Conrad Gesner.
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Swiss physician and naturalist
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Ynes Enriquetta Julietta Mexia
American botanist
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Robert Brown
Scottish botanist
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Norman Ernest Borlaug
American scientist
Title page of Flora Boreali-Americana by Andre Michaux (1746-1802), printed in 1803,
André Michaux
French botanist
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Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire
French naturalist
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David Fairchild
American botanist
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German biologist
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Jan Swammerdam
Dutch naturalist
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