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Born c.1714 • PeterboroughEngland
Died November 21, 1775 • LondonEngland
Subjects Of Study Linnaean system

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Carolus Linnaeus
Carolus Linnaeus
Swedish botanist
Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin
British naturalist
John Ray, detail of an oil painting; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
John Ray
English naturalist
William Withering
William Withering
English physician
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker.
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
British botanist
Hooker, Sir William Jackson
Sir William Jackson Hooker
British botanist
George Bentham, oil painting by Lewis Dickensen, 1870; in the collection of the Linnean Society of London
George Bentham
British botanist
Atkins, Anna: Ferns
Anna Atkins
English photographer and botanist
Stephen Hales
Stephen Hales
English scientist
Frederick Orpen Bower, detail of an oil painting by Sir William Orpen; in the University of Glasgow Art Collections
Frederick Orpen Bower
English botanist
John Gerard, detail of an engraving, 1636
John Gerard
English herbalist and author
Nehemiah Grew
Nehemiah Grew
English botanist
Thomas Nuttall, engraving by Thomson, 1825, after a drawing by W. Derby
Thomas Nuttall
British naturalist
William Turner
English botanist
Henry Nicholas Ridley
British botanist
Thomas Andrew Knight
British horticulturalist
Agnes Arber
British botanist
Bowerbank
James Scott Bowerbank
British naturalist and paleontologist
John Martyn
English botanist
Amos Eaton
American botanist, geologist, and lawyer

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