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(nätän´ä l pr ngs´h m) (KEY) , 1823–94, German botanist, one of the founders of the scientific study of algae. He made important discoveries in...
1814–77, American historian and diplomat, b. Dorchester, Mass. Author of two novels concerning Thomas Morton (1839 and 1849), as well as a number of...
(l ´käs älämän´) (KEY) , 1792–1853, Mexican historian and statesman. As deputy to the Spanish Cortes, he failed to win a hearing for the insur...
(b r ´s s) (KEY) , 3d cent. B.C., Babylonian priest-historian; contemporary of Manetho. His work, in Greek, preserved Mesopotamian myths regarding cr...
(t ´sh s, t ´s s) (KEY) , fl. 400 B.C., Greek historian and physician of Cnidus. He lived many years in the Persian court. He tended Artaxerxes II...
(f r´d nänt bär n´ f n r kht´h f n) (KEY) , 1833–1905, German geographer, geologist, and traveler. He took part in a Prussian expedition in E A...