William West, FLS (22 February 1848 – 14 May 1914) was an English pharmacist, botanist, microscopist and writer, particularly noted for his studies of...
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Literary Society William West (botanist) (1848–1914), English botanist William West Jr (1875–1901), English botanist William James West (died 1848), English...
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William Saunders (December 7, 1822 – September 11, 1900) was a horticulturist, landscape designer and nurseryman. During his long career, Saunders designed...
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William Houstoun (occasionally spelt Houston) (1695?–1733) was a Scottish surgeon and botanist who collected plants in the West Indies, Mexico and South...
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William West Jr, ARCS, (11 February 1875 – 14 September 1901) was an English botanist. He was the elder son of the botanist William West, and the brother...
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William Hutton (26 July 1797 – 20 November 1860) was a British geologist. Hutton was born 26 July 1797 in Sunderland, the son of a colliery viewer, but...
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William Wood (29 May 1745 – 1 April 1808) was an English Unitarian minister and botanist who was involved in efforts to remedy the political and educational...
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William Wright FRS FRSE FRCPE FLS FSA Scot MWS (1735–1819) was a Scottish physician, botanist and slave owner. In 1783 he was a joint founder of the Royal...
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William Baldwin (March 29, 1779 – September 1, 1819) was an American physician and botanist who is today remembered for his significant contributions...
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Dr William Craig FRSE FRCSE (28 March 1832 – 3 February 1922) was a Scottish surgeon and botanist. He was an expert on jaborandi, an appetite suppressant...
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Sir William Jackson Hooker KH FRS FRSE FLS DCL (6 July 1785 – 12 August 1865) was an English botanist and botanical illustrator, who became the first...
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The Hon. William Herbert (12 January 1778 – 28 May 1847) was a British botanist, botanical illustrator, poet, and clergyman. He served as a member of parliament...
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William Arthur (1680 - 1716) was a Scottish doctor who served as Regius Keeper of the Royal Botanic Garden and King's Botanist at Edinburgh. Shortly afterwards...
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Hergesheimer (1880–1954), novelist Josiah Hoopes (1832–1904), botanist and nurseryman William W. Jefferis (1820–1906), mineralogist and banker Charles Glen...
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Allan Cunningham (13 July 1791 – 27 June 1839) was an English botanist and explorer, primarily known for his expeditions into uncolonised areas of eastern...
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Dufour, Amsterdam, Paris 1815–40), William Edward Parry, 1821 Journal of a Voyage for the Discovery of a North-West Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific;...
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Quercus baloot (category Taxa named by William Griffith (botanist))
Quercus baloot, the holm oak or holly oak is a rare species of oak that was described by Griffith in 1848. It is classified in subgenus Cerris and section...
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Sigma William Gardner Smith (botanist) (1866–1928), Scottish botanist and ecologist William Smith (architect) (1817–1891), Scottish architect William Smith...
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David John Allen is a botanist and author, specialising in tropical legumes in West Africa and habitat conservation in East Devon, UK. He was born in...
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Vice-Admiral William Bligh FRS (9 September 1754 – 7 December 1817) was a British officer in the Royal Navy and a colonial administrator. He is best known...
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List of biologists (section Wi–William)
notable biologists with a biography in Wikipedia. It includes zoologists, botanists, biochemists, ornithologists, entomologists, malacologists, naturalists...
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William Gambel (June 1823 – December 13, 1849) was an American naturalist, ornithologist, and botanist from Philadelphia. As a young man he worked closely...
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William Roxburgh FRSE FRCPE FLS (3/29 June 1751 – 18 February 1815) was a Scottish surgeon and botanist who worked extensively in India, describing species...
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Hoya kerrii (category Taxa named by William Grant Craib)
eponymous collector is Arthur Francis George Kerr, Irish physician and botanist. As the thick leaves are heart-shaped, the plant is sometimes named "lucky-heart"...
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Edward Palmer (January 12, 1829 – April 10, 1911) was a self-taught British botanist and an Early-American archaeologist. Edward Palmer was born on 12 January...
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James Cook (redirect from James Cook (botanist))
there. This was later changed to "Botanist Bay" and finally Botany Bay after the unique specimens retrieved by the botanists Joseph Banks and Daniel Solander...
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to send botanists all over the world, himself visiting Australia, New Zealand, Malaya, Rhodesia, East Africa, India, Cyrenaica and the West Indies. His...
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William Bartram (April 20, 1739 – July 22, 1823) was an American botanist, ornithologist, natural historian and explorer. Bartram was the author of an...
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Will Geer (redirect from William Aughe Ghere)
names of the plants in his native state. Geer started out to become a botanist, studying the subject and obtaining a master's degree at the University...
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banker, botanist, and civic leader from Chester County, Pennsylvania. He was a lifelong friend and business associate of noted botanist William Darlington...
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