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• Odoardo Beccari was an Italian naturalist best known for discovering the titan arum, the plant with the largest unbranched inflorescence in the world, in Sumatra in 1878?
• Richard Maack (pictured) was a Russian naturalist who led some of the first major scientific expeditions to remote Siberia and the Russian Far East?
• the Banksia menziesii (pictured), named after 18th-century physician and naturalist Archibald Menzies, is also known as the Firewood Banksia for its burning properties and abundancy?
• HMS Chanticleer had been scheduled to survey South America, but was in such poor condition that the Beagle was selected instead for the 1831 voyage that established Charles Darwin as a naturalist?
• Ukrainian naturalist, lecturer, artist and author John Lhotsky was credited as the first discoverer of gold in New South Wales?
• French mycologist and naturalist Lucien Quélet claimed in his book, Mycologic Flora of France, that the human race as a whole was becoming more and more primitive?
• German naturalist Amalie Dietrich, who spent 10 years working in Australia, was the first person to collect the highly venomous snakes known as taipans?
• naturalist Jonathan Couch wrote the four-volume A History of the Fishes of the British Islands, with his own coloured illustrations depicting the vivid natural colours of the different species?
• Charles Willson Peale's 1822 self-portrait The Artist in His Museum (pictured) summarizes his career as a painter, taxidermist, and naturalist?