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Also Known As John Wray
Born November 29, 1627 • England
Died January 17, 1705 (aged 77) • England
Notable Works “Historia Plantarum” • “Methodus Plantarum Nova”
Subjects Of Study species • taxonomy

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Adolf Engler
German botanist
Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin
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Carolus Linnaeus
Carolus Linnaeus
Swedish botanist
British naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace
Alfred Russel Wallace
British naturalist
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker.
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
British botanist
Sir Joseph Banks, engraving by Ridley, 1802
Sir Joseph Banks
British naturalist
Bates, H.W.
H.W. Bates
British naturalist and explorer
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
French biologist
Dana, James D.
James D. Dana
American geologist and mineralogist
Ferdinand Cohn
Ferdinand Cohn
German botanist
Conrad Gesner.
Conrad Gesner
Swiss physician and naturalist
Gray, Asa
Asa Gray
American botanist
Albrecht von Haller, detail of an engraving by Ambroise Tardieu after a portrait by Sigmund Freudenberger
Albrecht von Haller
Swiss biologist
Roy Chapman Andrews
Roy Chapman Andrews
American naturalist
Georg August Schweinfurth, detail from an engraving by A. Weger, after a photograph.
Georg August Schweinfurth
German botanist
Newton, Alfred
Alfred Newton
British zoologist
John Bartram
American naturalist
John Bachman
American naturalist and minister
David Douglas
Scottish botanist
Beebe, William
William Beebe
American biologist and explorer

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