Richard Spruce
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title:
Richard Spruce
text:
Richard Spruce was an English botanist specializing in bryology. One of the great Victorian botanical explorers, Spruce spent 15 years exploring the Amazon from the Andes to its mouth, and was one of the first Europeans to visit many of the places where he collected specimens. Spruce discovered and named a number of new plant species, and corresponded with some of the leading botanists of the nineteenth century.
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British botanist and explorer (1817–1893)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Spruce
date created:
2004-07-13T09:44:37Z
date modified:
2024-09-10T07:13:23Z
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