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This is William Mitten. He was a British pharmaceutical chemist who compiled a collection of over 50,000 plant specimens, mostly mosses, in his lifetime. He was a bryologist, someone who studies mosses.

This is William Mitten. He was a British pharmaceutical chemist who compiled a collection of over 50,000 plant specimens, mostly mosses, in his lifetime. He was a bryologist, someone who studies mosses.

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    This is William Mitten. He was a British pharmaceutical chemist who compiled a collection of over 50,000 plant...
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    In 1906 the Garden purchased the William Mitten moss herbarium and she spent years on its reorganization and integration...
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    The she in the above quote...none other than Elizabeth Gertrude Knight Britton, wife
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