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Alvan Wentworth Chapman

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His botanical interest seems to have started when he lived in Georgia, adjacent to the botanically unexplored regions of northern Florida. Working in near isolation, in his spare time, he had a manuscript by 1859 and visited
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where he held various teaching positions, and he married Mary Ann Hancock in 1839. In the early 1840s, he received a medical education, acquiring his MD in 1846. In 1847, he settled in
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for five months, consulting with Gray and arranging for publication of his
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Southampton, Massachusetts
Botany
Author abbrev. (botany)
botanist
American Southeast
Flora of the Southern United States
Southampton, Massachusetts
Amherst College
Georgia
Florida
Apalachicola, Florida
Asa Gray
Harvard University
Flora of the Southern United States

Chapmannia
Chapman High School
Chapman Elementary School
Chapman Botanical Gardens
Chapman House Museum
Archived
Wayback Machine
author abbreviation
citing
botanical name



Harry Baker Humphrey

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