Word: gesner
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Gray. This is the most valuable collection of its kind in the United States, and is surpassed by none but that in the British Museum. It contains about eleven thousand autographs and in many cases the photographs or engravings of the botanists. The oldest autograph is that of Conrad Gesner, a Swiss naturalist born in 1516. The date of the autograph is 1563. Among other names contained are those of Linnaeus, 1749, a great Swedish naturalist and the founder of the present methods of botanical classification, Joseph Tournefort and Augustus P. de Candolle, both famous botanists. The collection was begun...