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Name: John Bartram
Birth Date: March 23, 1699
Death Date: September 22, 1777
Place of Birth: Darby, Pennsylvania, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: botanist

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Biography of John Bartram
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John Bartram (1699-1777) was the first native-born American botanist. He achieved considerable international fame as a collector of botanical specimens. John Bartram was born on March 23, 1699, near Darby, Pa. He spent his youth farming, which may have...
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A farmer in colonial Pennsylvania, John Bartram was one of America's pioneer botanists. As he remarked in a letter (1764), he had "in thirty years' travels, acquired a perfect knowledge of most, if not all the vegetables between New England and...


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1699-1777 American Naturalist, Botanist and Explorer John Bartram is best known as a naturalist and as the first American botanist. His explorations resulted in the identification, collection, and propagation of much of the flora of the American...
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March 23, 1699 Marple, Delaware County, Pennsylvania September 22, 1777 Kingsessing, Pennsylvania Botanist and gardener Portrait: John...
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John Bartram (May 23, 1699 O.S., Darby, Pennsylvania - September 22, 1777, Philadelphia) was an early American botanist and horticulturalist. Carolus Linnaeus said he was the "greatest natural botanist in the world."[1] Bartram was born into a Quaker...


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The Poetics of Natural History: From John Bartram to Willian James
04/01/2000: 595 words, approx. 2 pages
The Poetics of Natural History: From John Bartram to William James. By Christoph Irmscher, New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1999- 354 PP. $42-00. Despite the title, Christoph Irmscher's The Poetics of Natural History: From John Bartram to William James is not about...
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Rediscovery of the endangerd Okeechobee gourd (Cucurbita okeechobeensis) along the St. Johns River, Florida, where the last reported by William Bartram in 1774
06/01/2002: 3,042 words, approx. 10 pages
REDISCOVERY OF THE ENDANGERED OKEECHOBEE GOURD (Cucurbita okeechobeensis) ALONG THE ST. JOHNS RIVER, FLORIDA, WHERE LAST REPORTED BY WILLIAM BARTRAM IN 1774-The Okeechobee Gourd, Cucurbita okeechobeensis (Small) L. H. Bailey, is a robust, often overwintering, herbaceous vine endemic to Florida. Though originally observed by...
 


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