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Also Known As Agnes Robertson
Born February 23, 1879 • London • England
Died March 22, 1960 (aged 81) • Cambridge • England
Notable Works “Herbals, Their Origin and Evolution”
Subjects Of Study monocotyledon • comparative anatomy
Alexander Braun, engraving by Weger, c. 1875
Alexander Braun
German botanist
Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin
British naturalist
John Ray, detail of an oil painting; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
John Ray
English 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
George Bentham, oil painting by Lewis Dickensen, 1870; in the collection of the Linnean Society of London
George Bentham
British botanist
Atkins, Anna: Ferns
Anna Atkins
English photographer and botanist
Stephen Hales
Stephen Hales
English scientist
Frederick Orpen Bower, detail of an oil painting by Sir William Orpen; in the University of Glasgow Art Collections
Frederick Orpen Bower
English botanist
John Gerard, detail of an engraving, 1636
John Gerard
English herbalist and author
Lankester, Edwin Ray
Sir Edwin Ray Lankester
British zoologist
Nehemiah Grew
Nehemiah Grew
English botanist
Thomas Nuttall, engraving by Thomson, 1825, after a drawing by W. Derby
Thomas Nuttall
British naturalist
William Turner
English botanist
Henry Nicholas Ridley
British botanist
John Hill, engraving
John Hill
British author and botanist
Flower, 1883
Sir William Henry Flower
British zoologist
Thomas Andrew Knight
British horticulturalist
Bowerbank
James Scott Bowerbank
British naturalist and paleontologist

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