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Born May 21, 1866 • Canada
Died April 19, 1952 (aged 85) • Cambridge • Massachusetts
Subjects Of Study vascular plant • phylogeny
John Coulter
American botanist
Amos Eaton
American botanist, geologist, and lawyer
Karl von Goebel
German botanist
Bessey, c. 1910
Charles E. Bessey
American botanist
Douglas Campbell
Douglas Houghton Campbell
American botanist
Charles Chamberlain, 1925
Charles Joseph Chamberlain
American botanist
Brown, Robert
Robert Brown
Scottish botanist
George Bentham, oil painting by Lewis Dickensen, 1870; in the collection of the Linnean Society of London
George Bentham
British botanist
Adolphe-Théodore Brongniart
French botanist
Alexander Braun, engraving by Weger, c. 1875
Alexander Braun
German botanist
Wilhelm Hofmeister
German botanist
Frederic Edward Clements
American botanist, taxonomist, and ecologist
Gray, Asa
Asa Gray
American botanist
Henry Chandler Cowles
American botanist
Emma Lucy Braun
American botanist and ecologist
David Fairchild
David Fairchild
American botanist
Britton, Elizabeth Gertrude Knight
Elizabeth Gertrude Knight Britton
American botanist
John Torrey
John Torrey
American botanist and chemist
George Ledyard Stebbins, Jr.
American botanist
Bernard Ogilvie Dodge
American botanist

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