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Benjamin Smith Barton

Benjamin Smith Barton
Benjamin Smith Barton, American botanist and physician (d. 1815)

Benjamin Smith Barton was an American botanist, naturalist, and physician. He was one of the first professors of natural history in the United States and built the largest collection of botanical specimens in the country. He wrote the first American textbook on botany.

10 February 1766

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