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Born November 18, 1810 • New York
Died January 30, 1888 (aged 77) • Cambridge • Massachusetts • (Died on this day)
Awards And Honors Hall of Fame (1900)
Notable Works “Darwiniana” • “Gray’s Manual”
Subjects Of Study North America • plant • taxonomy

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Bessey, c. 1910
Charles E. Bessey
American botanist
Katherine Esau
American botanist
Carolus Linnaeus
Carolus Linnaeus
Swedish botanist
Albrecht von Haller, detail of an engraving by Ambroise Tardieu after a portrait by Sigmund Freudenberger
Albrecht von Haller
Swiss biologist
Engler
Adolf Engler
German botanist
Frederic Edward Clements
American botanist, taxonomist, and ecologist
John Torrey
John Torrey
American botanist and chemist
Elliott Coues
American ornithologist
John James Audubon
John James Audubon
American artist
Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin
British naturalist
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
French biologist
John Ray, detail of an oil painting; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
John Ray
English naturalist
Brown, Robert
Robert Brown
Scottish botanist
Augustin Pyrame de Candolle
Swiss botanist
Adolphe-Théodore Brongniart
French botanist
August Wilhelm Eichler
German botanist
Joseph Pitton de Tournefort
French botanist and physician
Endlicher, Stephan
Stephan Endlicher
Austrian botanist
John Lindley, engraving, 1865, after a photograph
John Lindley
British botanist
Thomas Nuttall, engraving by Thomson, 1825, after a drawing by W. Derby
Thomas Nuttall
British naturalist

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