biography
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| male
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| lived:
| (1815–54)
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| biography:
| Naturalist, born in Douglas, Isle of Man, UK. He studied medicine at Edinburgh, but from 1836 devoted himself to the natural sciences. He became professor of botany at King's College, London (1843), and professor of natural history at the School of Mines (1851) and Edinburgh (1853). He did much to advance and systematize several disciplines in natural history, made formative observations in oceanography, and was one of the founders of the science of biogeography. |
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