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Born September 4, 1865 • Michigan
Died December 16, 1935 (aged 70)
Notable Works “Manual of Grasses of the United States”
Subjects Of Study grass

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Frederic Edward Clements
American botanist, taxonomist, and ecologist
Gray, Asa
Asa Gray
American botanist
Emma Lucy Braun
American botanist and ecologist
Bessey, c. 1910
Charles E. Bessey
American botanist
Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin
British naturalist
Carolus Linnaeus
Carolus Linnaeus
Swedish botanist
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
French biologist
John Ray, detail of an oil painting; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
John Ray
English naturalist
Ferdinand Cohn
Ferdinand Cohn
German botanist
Brown, Robert
Robert Brown
Scottish botanist
Augustin Pyrame de Candolle
Swiss botanist
Albrecht von Haller, detail of an engraving by Ambroise Tardieu after a portrait by Sigmund Freudenberger
Albrecht von Haller
Swiss biologist
George Bentham, oil painting by Lewis Dickensen, 1870; in the collection of the Linnean Society of London
George Bentham
British botanist
Engler
Adolf Engler
German botanist
Gaspard Bauhin
Gaspard Bauhin
Swiss physician and botanist
Adolphe-Théodore Brongniart
French botanist
August Wilhelm Eichler
German botanist
Joseph Pitton de Tournefort
French botanist and physician
Endlicher, Stephan
Stephan Endlicher
Austrian botanist
John Lindley, engraving, 1865, after a photograph
John Lindley
British botanist

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