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Elliott Coues
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Elliott Coues: Facts & Related Content

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Born September 9, 1842 • Portsmouth • New Hampshire
Died December 25, 1899 (aged 57) • Baltimore • Maryland
Notable Works “Key to North American Birds”
Subjects Of Study bird • North America • taxonomy
John James Audubon
John James Audubon
American artist
Alexander Wilson, detail of an engraving by W.H. Lizars
Alexander Wilson
Scottish ornithologist
Charles-Lucien Bonaparte, prince di Canino e di Musignano
French scientist
Gray, Asa
Asa Gray
American botanist
Johannes Müller
German physiologist
John Gould
British ornithologist
Newton, Alfred
Alfred Newton
British zoologist
E.O. Wilson
E.O. Wilson
American biologist
Dana, James D.
James D. Dana
American geologist and mineralogist
Mayr, Ernst
Ernst Mayr
American biologist
Alexander Agassiz
Alexander Agassiz
Swiss scientist
Maria Martin
American artist
Magellanic penguin, left (Spheniscus magellanicus), and king shag (Phalacrocorax albiventer), watercolour and pencil by Roger Tory Peterson, from his book Penguins (1979); Houghton Mifflin
Roger Tory Peterson
American ornithologist
Baird, Spencer Fullerton
Spencer Fullerton Baird
American naturalist
William Morton Wheeler
American entomologist
Bessey, c. 1910
Charles E. Bessey
American botanist
Mary Jane Rathbun
American marine zoologist
David Hendricks Bergey
American bacteriologist
Charles Atwood Kofoid
American zoologist
Libbie Henrietta Hyman
American zoologist

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Michael Faraday (L) English physicist and chemist (electromagnetism) and John Frederic Daniell (R) British chemist and meteorologist who invented the Daniell cell.
Faces of Science