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Born September 22, 1800 • England
Died September 10, 1884 (aged 83) • London • England
Notable Works “Flora Australiensis” • “Genera Plantarum”
Notable Family Members father Sir Samuel Bentham
Subjects Of Study seed plant • vascular plant • taxonomy

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

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