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Daniel Gottlieb Messerschmidt
German naturalist
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association with Steller
- In Georg W. Steller
…met German naturalist and explorer Daniel Gottlieb Messerschmidt, who was one of the first naturalists to maintain journals of his travels and observations. Steller admired Messerschmidt’s work and heard about a possible Russian expedition to the Arctic seas in the Far East. In 1737, two years after Messerschmidt’s death, Steller…
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