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Hitchcock, Albert Spear
Albert Spear Hitchcock
American botanist
David Starr Jordan
David Starr Jordan
American educator
Oka Asajirō
Japanese biologist
Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin
British naturalist
Huxley, Thomas Henry
Thomas Henry Huxley
British biologist
Carolus Linnaeus
Carolus Linnaeus
Swedish botanist
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
French biologist
Georges Cuvier
Georges Cuvier
French zoologist
Johannes Müller
German physiologist
John Ray, detail of an oil painting; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
John Ray
English naturalist
Ferdinand Cohn
Ferdinand Cohn
German botanist
George Gaylord Simpson
American paleontologist
Frederic Edward Clements
American botanist, taxonomist, and ecologist
Brown, Robert
Robert Brown
Scottish botanist
Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire
French naturalist
Gray, Asa
Asa Gray
American botanist
Julian Huxley
Sir Julian Huxley
British biologist
Albrecht von Haller, detail of an engraving by Ambroise Tardieu after a portrait by Sigmund Freudenberger
Albrecht von Haller
Swiss biologist
Augustin Pyrame de Candolle
Swiss botanist
Mayr, Ernst
Ernst Mayr
American biologist

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