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    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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  • 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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  • 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 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 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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • William Thomas Stearn CBE FLS VMH (/stɜːrn/; 16 April 1911 – 9 May 2001) was a British botanist. Born in Cambridge in 1911, he was largely self-educated...
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    chemist William Aiton (1731–1793), botanist John Albery (1936–2013), physical chemist John Arderne (1307-1392), physician and surgeon Francis William Aston...
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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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  • notable biologists with a biography in Wikipedia. It includes zoologists, botanists, biochemists, ornithologists, entomologists, malacologists, naturalists...
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  • Thumbnail for Allan Cunningham (botanist)
    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    Allium tricoccum (category Taxa named by William Aiton)
    Allium tricoccum was first named as such in 1789 by the Scottish botanist William Aiton, in Hortus Kewensis, a catalog of plants cultivated in London's...
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    William Ramsay McNab (1844 – 3 December 1889) was a Scottish physician and botanist. He was born on 9 November 1844 the son of James McNab (1810-1878)...
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    Retrieved 21 November 2010. "Author details for Parry, William Edward". Index of Botanists. Harvard University Herbarium. Retrieved 1 February 2013...
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