Richard Pulteney
1730
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1801
photo credits: Wikimedia Commons
country of citizenship: Great Britain
educated at: Loughborough Grammar School
occupation: botanist, naturalist, entomologist, biographer, botanical collector
award received: Fellow of the Royal Society, Fellow of the Linnean Society of London
Richard Pulteney FRS FRSE FLS (17 February 1730 – 13 October 1801) was an English physician and botanist. He was a promoter of Linnaean taxonomy, and authored the first English language biography of Carl Linnaeus, entitled A General View of the Writings of Linnaeus. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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