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Born June 25, 1799 • Scone • Scotland
Died July 12, 1834 (aged 35)

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Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin
British naturalist
Ynes Enriquetta Julietta Mexia
Ynes Enriquetta Julietta Mexia
American botanist
Alexander von Humboldt
Alexander von Humboldt
German explorer and naturalist
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John Bartram
American naturalist
Brown, Robert
Robert Brown
Scottish botanist
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
British botanist
Sir Joseph Banks, engraving by Ridley, 1802
Sir Joseph Banks
British naturalist
Newton, Alfred
Alfred Newton
British zoologist
C. Wyville Thomson, 1877.
Sir C. Wyville Thomson
Scottish naturalist
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Robert Fortune
Scottish botanist and traveler
Carolus Linnaeus
Carolus Linnaeus
Swedish botanist
John Ray, detail of an oil painting; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
John Ray
English naturalist
Title page of Andre Michaux's Flora Boreali-Americana
André Michaux
French botanist
David Fairchild
David Fairchild
American botanist
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Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg
German biologist
Georg August Schweinfurth, detail from an engraving by A. Weger, after a photograph.
Georg August Schweinfurth
German botanist
Thomas Nuttall, engraving by Thomson, 1825, after a drawing by W. Derby
Thomas Nuttall
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Antoine de Jussieu
French botanist and physician
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Joseph de Jussieu
French botanist
British naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace
Alfred Russel Wallace
British naturalist

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