natural history

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George Kearsley Shaw and the Foundations of Early Natural History

George Kearsley Shaw: A Pioneer of Early Natural History George Kearsley Shaw was a distinguished English botanist (a scientist who studies plants) and zoologist (a scientist who studies ...

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Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Herbst and the Classification of Insects and Crustaceans

The Scientific Legacy of Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Herbst In the history of natural history, few figures have contributed as extensively to the classification of the natural world as Johan...

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