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BIOLOGIST

Richard Spruce

1817 - 1893

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Richard Spruce (10 September 1817 – 28 December 1893) was an English botanist specializing in bryology. One of the great Victorian botanical explorers, Spruce spent 15 years exploring the Amazon from the Andes to its mouth, and was one of the first Europeans to visit many of the places where he collected specimens. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Richard Spruce has received more than 48,899 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Richard Spruce is the 780th most popular biologist (down from 691st in 2019).

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  • 49k

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  • 45.02

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  • 16

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  • 4.84

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  • 2.20

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Richard Spruce ranks 780 out of 841Before him are Robert May, Baron May of Oxford, Thomas Thomson, Richard Anthony Salisbury, Bunzō Hayata, Nikolai Turczaninow, and Grigore Antipa. After him are Yang Zhongjian, Sereno Watson, Félix de Avelar Brotero, Charles Conrad Abbott, Judah Folkman, and Nikolay Timofeev-Ressovsky.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1817, Richard Spruce ranks 74Before him are Ramón de Campoamor y Campoosorio, José Mármol, Palladius, George Holyoake, Christen Andreas Fonnesbech, and Thomas Thomson. After him are Hippolyte Mège-Mouriès, Alfred Francis Russell, Manuel Robles Pezuela, Frederick Theodore Frelinghuysen, and Benjamin Jowett. Among people deceased in 1893, Richard Spruce ranks 71Before him are John O. Westwood, Constantin von Wurzbach, Benjamin Butler, Aleksey Pleshcheyev, James G. Blaine, and Edwin Booth. After him are Hamilton Fish, Ion Emanuel Florescu, John Rae, Aleksandra Potanina, Edmund Kirby Smith, and John Ballance.

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