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Brown, Robert
Robert Brown
Scottish botanist
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Adolphe-Théodore Brongniart
French botanist
Alexander Braun, engraving by Weger, c. 1875
Alexander Braun
German botanist
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Wilhelm Hofmeister
German botanist
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Edward Charles Jeffrey
American botanist
William Brooks
William Keith Brooks
American zoologist
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Karl von Goebel
German botanist
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Sir Gavin de Beer
British zoologist
Bessey, c. 1910
Charles E. Bessey
American botanist
Charles Chamberlain, 1925
Charles Joseph Chamberlain
American botanist

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