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Born July 28, 1840 • Philadelphia • Pennsylvania
Died April 12, 1897 (aged 56) • Philadelphia • Pennsylvania
Subjects Of Study dinosaur • vertebrate • Lamarckism • Tertiary Period • fossil • kinetogenesis

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