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Born September 2, 1860 • Vermont
Died November 22, 1926 (aged 66) • Arlington • Virginia
Notable Works “A Catalogue of the Mesozoic and Cenozoic Plants of North America”
Subjects Of Study plant • climate • fossil
Adolphe-Théodore Brongniart
French botanist
Robert Kidston
British paleobotanist
Dunkinfield Henry Scott
British paleobotanist
Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin
British naturalist
Earl Douglass
American paleontologist
Alfred Sherwood Romer, 1965
Alfred Sherwood Romer
American biologist
George Gaylord Simpson
American paleontologist
Frederic Edward Clements
American botanist, taxonomist, and ecologist
Gray, Asa
Asa Gray
American botanist
Norman Borlaug
Norman Ernest Borlaug
American scientist
Henry Chandler Cowles
American botanist
David Fairchild
David Fairchild
American botanist
Margaret Bryan Davis
Margaret Bryan Davis
American paleoecologist
Abbot, Charles Greeley
Charles Greeley Abbot
American astrophysicist
Dennis Robert Hoagland
American botanist
Burbank, Luther
Luther Burbank
American plant breeder
George Ledyard Stebbins, Jr.
American botanist
Bernard Ogilvie Dodge
American botanist
Edward Murray East
American scientist
Leidy
Joseph Leidy
American zoologist