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Sir Hans Sloane, Baronet
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Born April 16, 1660 • (Birthday tomorrow)
Died January 11, 1753 (aged 92) • London • England

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Sloane, detail of an oil painting by S. Slaughter, 1736; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
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Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin
British naturalist
Sir Joseph Banks, engraving by Ridley, 1802
Sir Joseph Banks
British naturalist
Thomas Nuttall, engraving by Thomson, 1825, after a drawing by W. Derby
Thomas Nuttall
British naturalist
John Bartram
American naturalist
British naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace
Alfred Russel Wallace
British naturalist
Bates, H.W.
H.W. Bates
British naturalist and explorer
David Douglas
Scottish botanist
Bowerbank
James Scott Bowerbank
British naturalist and paleontologist
Alexander von Humboldt
Alexander von Humboldt
German explorer and naturalist
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
French biologist
Conrad Gesner.
Conrad Gesner
Swiss physician and naturalist
Brown, Robert
Robert Brown
Scottish botanist
Norman Borlaug
Norman Ernest Borlaug
American scientist
Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire
French naturalist
David Fairchild
David Fairchild
American botanist
Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg
German biologist
Swammerdam, Jan
Jan Swammerdam
Dutch naturalist
Akeley, Carl E.
Carl E. Akeley
American naturalist and explorer
Aldrovandi, Ulisse
Ulisse Aldrovandi
Italian naturalist
Baird, Spencer Fullerton
Spencer Fullerton Baird
American naturalist

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