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Born November 4, 1855 • Ripon • England
Died April 11, 1948 (aged 92) • Ripon • England
Notable Works “The Origin of a Land Flora”
Subjects Of Study fern • alternation of generations • evolution

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Douglas Campbell
Douglas Houghton Campbell
American botanist
Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin
British naturalist
Hooker, Sir William Jackson
Sir William Jackson Hooker
British botanist
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
French biologist
Hugo de Vries
Dutch botanist and geneticist
Charles Chamberlain, 1925
Charles Joseph Chamberlain
American botanist
Huxley, Thomas Henry
Thomas Henry Huxley
British biologist
Herbert Spencer
Herbert Spencer
British philosopher
British naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace
Alfred Russel Wallace
British naturalist
Erasmus Darwin, detail of an oil painting by Joseph Wright, 1770; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Erasmus Darwin
British physician
John Ray, detail of an oil painting; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
John Ray
English naturalist
Karl Pearson
Karl Pearson
British mathematician
William Withering
William Withering
English physician
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker.
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
British botanist
Bateson, William
William Bateson
British biologist
Julian Huxley
Sir Julian Huxley
British biologist
Sir Gavin de Beer
British zoologist
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

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