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Born June 29, 1852 • Scotland
Died July 13, 1924 (aged 72) • Wales
Subjects Of Study plant • Devonian Period • fossil
Dunkinfield Henry Scott
British paleobotanist
Adolphe-Théodore Brongniart
French botanist
Frank Hall Knowlton
American paleobotanist
Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin
British naturalist
William Lonsdale
British geologist
Sir Richard Owen, detail of an oil painting by H.W. Pickersgill, 1845; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Richard Owen
British anatomist and paleontologist
Stephen Hales
Stephen Hales
English scientist
Sir Joseph Banks, engraving by Ridley, 1802
Sir Joseph Banks
British naturalist
Kenneth V. Thimann
American plant physiologist
Nehemiah Grew
Nehemiah Grew
English botanist
William Williamson, oil painting by A. Brothers, 1887; in the University Library, Manchester
William Crawford Williamson
English naturalist
Charles William Peach
English naturalist and geologist
Thomas Nuttall, engraving by Thomson, 1825, after a drawing by W. Derby
Thomas Nuttall
British naturalist
William Joscelyn Arkell
British paleontologist
Earl Douglass
American paleontologist
Alexander von Humboldt
Alexander von Humboldt
German explorer and naturalist
Carolus Linnaeus
Carolus Linnaeus
Swedish botanist
Gregor Mendel
Gregor Mendel
botanist
Georges Cuvier
Georges Cuvier
French zoologist
Alfred Sherwood Romer, 1965
Alfred Sherwood Romer
American biologist