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| | Botanical Taxonomy -- A Historical Summary - Christopher Hobbs L.Ac., A.H.G. - HealthWorld Online |
 | | August Wilhelm Eichler (1839-1887), Adolf Engler (1844-1930), and Charles Bessey (1845-1915) helped refine previous schemes to make the system we have used until the last few Years, when even further refined, using modern research methods and equipment, such as chemotaxonomy and electron microscopy, by Dr. Armen Takhtajan, and Dr. Arthur Cronquist. |
 | | These systems are similar, and are in current use in botany texts of the last few years. |
 | | Asa Gray (1810-1888) is the father of American Botany, and wrote several important botany texts and floras, which can still be found in used book stores today, and are useful for their clear explanation of plant morphology. |
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