biography
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Scott, Dunkinfield Henry
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| male
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| lived:
| (1854–1934)
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| biography:
| Botanist, born in London, UK, the son of George Gilbert Scott. He studied at Oxford and Würzburg universities, became assistant professor at the Royal College of Science, and in 1892 keeper of Jodrell Laboratory, Kew, devoting himself to plant anatomy and later to palaeobotany. He collaborated with William Crawford Williamson (1816–95) in a number of notable studies of fossil plants, and established in 1904 the class Pteridospermeae. |
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