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(b n´th m) (KEY) , 1800–1884, one of the greatest of English systematic botanists; nephew of Jeremy Bentham. He wrote Handbook of British Flora (18...
(k l s´th n z) (KEY) , c.360–c.327 B.C., Greek historian of Olynthus; nephew of Aristotle. He accompanied Alexander the Great into Asia as the hist...
( ´b rh lt´´s r) (KEY) , 1868–1936, American historian, b. Chester co., Pa. He studied abroad and then worked on various Philadelphia newspapers....
(f r´d nänt k n) (KEY) , 1828–98, German botanist. He is considered a founder of the science of bacteriology. From his early studies of microscopi...
1773–1858, Scottish botanist and botanical explorer. In 1801 he went as a naturalist on one of Matthew Flinders’s expeditions to Australia, return...
(Publius Herennius Dexippus) (d ks p´ s) (KEY) , fl. 253–276, Greek historian of the Roman period. He commanded Greek troops in an unsuccessful att...