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Born May 24, 1870 • Georgetown • United States
Died July 12, 1938 (aged 68) • Berkeley • California

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Ynes Enriquetta Julietta Mexia
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Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin
British naturalist
David Douglas
David Douglas
Scottish botanist
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John Bartram
American naturalist
Alexander von Humboldt
Alexander von Humboldt
German explorer and naturalist
David Fairchild
David Fairchild
American botanist
Carolus Linnaeus
Carolus Linnaeus
Swedish botanist
John Ray, detail of an oil painting; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
John Ray
English naturalist
Brown, Robert
Robert Brown
Scottish botanist
Title page of Flora Boreali-Americana by Andre Michaux (1746-1802), printed in 1803,
André Michaux
French botanist
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
British botanist
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Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg
German biologist
Sir Joseph Banks, engraving by Ridley, 1802
Sir Joseph Banks
British naturalist
Georg August Schweinfurth, detail from an engraving by A. Weger, after a photograph.
Georg August Schweinfurth
German botanist
Thomas Nuttall, engraving by Thomson, 1825, after a drawing by W. Derby
Thomas Nuttall
British naturalist
Newton, Alfred
Alfred Newton
British zoologist
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Antoine de Jussieu
French botanist and physician
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Joseph de Jussieu
French botanist
James D. Dana
James D. Dana
American geologist and mineralogist
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Frederic Edward Clements
American botanist, taxonomist, and ecologist
“Father of American Botany”
Asa Gray
American botanist

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