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Born 1508? • Morpeth • England
Died July 7, 1568 • London • England
Notable Works “A New Herball” • “The Names of Herbes”
Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin
British naturalist
John Ray, detail of an oil painting; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
John Ray
English naturalist
John Gerard, detail of an engraving, 1636
John Gerard
English herbalist and author
Thomas Nuttall, engraving by Thomson, 1825, after a drawing by W. Derby
Thomas Nuttall
British naturalist
Bowerbank
James Scott Bowerbank
British naturalist and paleontologist
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Amos Eaton
American botanist, geologist, and lawyer
Ferdinand Cohn
Ferdinand Cohn
German botanist
Conrad Gesner.
Conrad Gesner
Swiss physician and naturalist
Rafinesque, Constantine Samuel
Constantine Samuel Rafinesque
Turkish naturalist
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Pedanius Dioscorides
Greek physician
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Jean Senebier
Swiss botanist
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Rembert Dodoens
Flemish physician and botanist
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John Bartram
American naturalist
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John Bachman
American naturalist and minister
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Otto Brunfels
German botanist
Cherry tree (Prunus avium), woodcut by David Kandel from De stirpium historia (1552), Latin translation of New Kreuterbuch by Hieronymus Bock
Hieronymus Bock
German scientist
British naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace
Alfred Russel Wallace
British naturalist
William Withering
William Withering
English physician
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
British botanist
Hooker, Sir William Jackson
Sir William Jackson Hooker
British botanist

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