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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
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Prairie falcon (Falco mexicanus) in mid-flight.
11 Questions About Birds Answered
Dead and wilted flowers hang limply.
Why Do Plants Wilt?
Hungry Pelican waiting to be fed, beak open, Australia
Why Don’t Birds Have Teeth?
Shoebill. A Shoebill Stork (Balaeniceps rex), aka 'Whalehead' standing in shallow marsh. Resides in tropical East Africa. A very large bird related to the storks. It derives its name from its massive shoe-shaped bill.
Funky Feathers: 10 Bizarre Birds
Tilled farmland. (farming, dirt, soil conservation)
Could We Lose All the Soil on Earth?
Discover
Rural Irish landscape, Sligo, Ireland.
Why Is Ireland Two Countries?
Fish. Lionfish. Lion-fish. Turkey fish. Fire-fish. Red lionfish. Pterois volitans. Venomous fin spines. Coral reefs. Underwater. Ocean. Red lionfish swims by seaweed.
10 of the World’s Most Dangerous Fish
Marriage. A couple getting married during a church wedding ceremony. (religion, ceremony, bride, groom)
The Seven Sacraments of the Roman Catholic church
New Zealand. Political/Physical map. Includes locator.
Where Is “Old Zealand”?
Two chicks near an egg with a white background (poultry, chick, chickens, birds).
What Do Eggs Have to Do with Easter?
Hemp (Cannabis sativa).
9 Mind-Altering Plants
Illustration for Demystified "How Dangerous is Quicksand"
How Deadly Is Quicksand?

John Bachman: Facts & Related Content

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Born February 4, 1790 • New York
Died February 24, 1874 (aged 84) • Columbia • South Carolina
Notable Works “The Birds of America” • “The Unity of the Human Race” • “Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America”
John Ray, detail of an oil painting; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
John Ray
English naturalist
Conrad Gesner.
Conrad Gesner
Swiss physician and naturalist
Amos Eaton
American botanist, geologist, and lawyer
John James Audubon
John James Audubon
American artist
Gray, Asa
Asa Gray
American botanist
David Fairchild
David Fairchild
American botanist
James Mark Baldwin
American philosopher and psychologist
Rafinesque, Constantine Samuel
Constantine Samuel Rafinesque
Turkish naturalist
George Alfred Leon Sarton
American scholar
Lewis Ralph Jones, c. 1940
Lewis Ralph Jones
American botanist
Jared Sparks
American publisher
John Bartram
American naturalist
George Engelmann
German botanist and physician
Dumas Malone
American historian, editor, and the author
Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm
German author, folklorist, and philologist
Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin
British naturalist
Carolus Linnaeus
Carolus Linnaeus
Swedish botanist
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
French biologist
Ferdinand Cohn
Ferdinand Cohn
German botanist
Arthur Young
English writer

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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