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1831–86, English librarian and antiquarian at Cambridge Univ. He discovered, organized, and made known the university’s treasures of manuscripts a...
1838–1916, American printer; son of Benjamin Henry Day. While working in New York City, Day invented a process, utilizing celluloid sheets, for shad...
(gl ´s n) (KEY) , 1882–1975, American botanist, plant geographer, and plant ecologist. His floristic studies of North American vegetation led to hi...
(kr ´r r) (KEY) , 1827–89, American capitalist and philanthropist, b. New York City. Crerar was a manufacturer in Chicago, and gave liberally to ma...
1844–1919, American botanist, b. Boston, grad. Harvard, 1866. His chief contributions were made in the study of cryptogamic and parasitic plants. Ma...
(h n´r kh än´t n d bär ´) (KEY) , 1831–88, German botanist. He was professor at the universities of Freiburg in Breisgau (1855–66) and Halle...