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Richard Pulteney

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British botanist and naturalist (1730-1801)

ScientistsLived 1730 to 1801 · aged 71
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Richard Pulteney FRS FRSE FLS 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.

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Richard Pulteney by P. Roberts, published 1805 (after Thomas Beach, 1788).Richard Pulteney by P. Roberts, published 1805 (after Thomas Beach, 1788).

Awards 2

Fellow of the Royal Society
Fellow of the Linnean Society of London

Scientists born in the 1730s 6

Giovanni Antonio Rizzi Zannoni38.4Tommaso Valperga di Caluso38.0Bernardino da Ucria38.5Friedrich Wilhelm von Leysser37.9George Fordyce38.5Francis Wollaston37.6

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Scientists
Type
Scientist
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1730 to 1801 · aged 71
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11 languages

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