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Born August 15, 1796 • New York City • New York
Died March 10, 1873 (aged 76) • New York City • New York
Subjects Of Study North America • plant

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John Torrey
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Gray, Asa
Asa Gray
American botanist
Edward Murray East
American scientist
Bessey, c. 1910
Charles E. Bessey
American botanist
Thomas Nuttall, engraving by Thomson, 1825, after a drawing by W. Derby
Thomas Nuttall
British naturalist
André Michaux
French botanist
Frederic Edward Clements
American botanist, taxonomist, and ecologist
Henry Chandler Cowles
American botanist
David Fairchild
David Fairchild
American botanist
George Ledyard Stebbins, Jr.
American botanist
Bernard Ogilvie Dodge
American botanist
Liberty Hyde Bailey
Liberty Hyde Bailey
American botanist
Katherine Esau
American botanist
Albert Francis Blakeslee
American botanist
John Bartram
American naturalist
Ynes Enriquetta Julietta Mexia
American botanist
Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin
British naturalist
Carolus Linnaeus
Carolus Linnaeus
Swedish botanist
Gregor Mendel
Gregor Mendel
botanist
William Hyde Wollaston, detail of a pencil drawing by J. Jackson; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
William Hyde Wollaston
British scientist
Brown, Robert
Robert Brown
Scottish botanist

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