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Archibald Menzies

1754 - 1842

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Archibald Menzies ( MING-iss; 15 March 1754 – 15 February 1842) was a Scottish surgeon, botanist and naturalist. He spent many years at sea, serving with the Royal Navy, private merchants, and the Vancouver Expedition. During his naval expeditions, he assembled the most extensive collection of extra-European lichen specimens of the 18th century, significantly contributing to the field of lichenology. He was the first recorded European to reach the summit of the Hawaiian volcano Mauna Loa and introduced the monkey puzzle tree (Chile pine) to England. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Archibald Menzies is the 965th most popular biologist (up from 969th in 2019), the 4,600th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 4,943rd in 2019) and the 159th most popular British Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Archibald Menzies ranks 965 out of 1,097. Before her are Colin Munro MacLeod, Robert Morison, Grigore Antipa, Ivan Lepyokhin, Curt Backeberg, and William Diller Matthew. After her are John Torrey, Nikolay Timofeev-Ressovsky, Richard Evans Schultes, Irene Manton, Nicole Marthe Le Douarin, and Tilly Edinger.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1754, Archibald Menzies ranks 54. Before her are Grace Elliott, Vincenzo Monti, George Crabbe, Juan Ruiz de Apodaca, 1st Count of Venadito, Juan Meléndez Valdés, and Alexander Shishkov. After her are Francis Rawdon-Hastings, 1st Marquess of Hastings, Abraham Baldwin, and Joel Barlow. Among people deceased in 1842, Archibald Menzies ranks 39. Before her are Christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse, Leona Vicario, Aleksey Koltsov, Wilhelm Gesenius, Henry Shrapnel, and William Ellery Channing. After her are William Hobson, James Barbour, John Sell Cotman, Amos Eaton, Rowland Hill, 1st Viscount Hill, and Chand Kaur.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Archibald Menzies ranks 4,601 out of 8,785. Before her are Alex Kapranos (1972), Charles Rosher (1885), Naseem Hamed (1974), Phyllis Covell (1895), Bernie Marsden (1951), and Herbert Ponting (1870). After her are John Masefield (1878), Charles Montagu Doughty (1843), Walter de la Mare (1873), George Clausen (1852), Cliff Bastin (1912), and John Hunter (1737).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, Archibald Menzies ranks 159. Before her are Maxwell T. Masters (1833), Mark Catesby (1683), William Yarrell (1784), Francis Willughby (1635), Gilbert White (1720), and Robert Morison (1620). After her are Irene Manton (1904), Sydney Parkinson (1745), Miriam Rothschild (1908), Dukinfield Henry Scott (1854), Herbert Kenneth Airy Shaw (1902), and Lancelot Hogben (1895).

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