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Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin
British naturalist
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John Coulter
American botanist
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Amos Eaton
American botanist, geologist, and lawyer
Carolus Linnaeus
Carolus Linnaeus
Swedish botanist
Gregor Mendel
Gregor Mendel
botanist
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
French biologist
Robin Wall Kimmerer
Robin Wall Kimmerer
Potawatomi writer and scientist
William Hyde Wollaston, detail of a pencil drawing by J. Jackson; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
William Hyde Wollaston
British scientist
Portrait of William Bartram
William Bartram
American naturalist, botanist, and artist
John Ray, detail of an oil painting; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
John Ray
English naturalist
Ferdinand Cohn
Ferdinand Cohn
German botanist
Jeanne Baret
Jeanne Baret
French botanist and explorer
Conrad Gesner.
Conrad Gesner
Swiss physician and naturalist
William Withering
William Withering
English physician
Katherine Oppenheimer
Katherine Oppenheimer
German-American botanist and biologist
Steller's sea cow
Georg W. Steller
zoologist and botanist
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Frederic Edward Clements
American botanist, taxonomist, and ecologist
Ynes Enriquetta Julietta Mexia
Ynes Enriquetta Julietta Mexia
American botanist
Brown, Robert
Robert Brown
Scottish botanist
Martinus W. Beijerinck
Martinus W. Beijerinck
Dutch microbiologist and botanist

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