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Charles Pickering (November 10 , 1805 _ March 17 , 1878 ) was an American naturalist .
Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania , the grandson of Colonel Thomas Pickering, he grew up in Wenham, Massachusetts and received a medical degree from Harvard University in 1823 . A practicing physician in Philadelphia , he became active as librarian and curator at the city's Academy of Natural Sciences .
United States Exploring Expedition of 1838 -1842 as one of its naturalists, then upon his return was appointed to a post at the Patent Office . This did not last long; in 1843 he traveled to Africa and India to research native races.
Boston , where he resumed his medical practice.
Books Races of Man and Their Geographical Distribution (1848 )Geographical Distribution of Animals and Plants (1854 )Geographical Distribution of Plants (1861 )Chronological History of Plants: Man's Record of His Own Existence Illustrated through Their Names, Uses, and Companionship (1879 )
External link Bio at Harvard University (http://www.peabody.harvard.edu/sahlins/F5742.html )
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Charles Pickering was born in Pennsylvania in 1805, and grew up in Wenham, MA. Charles Pickering attended Harvard University, from where he graduated with a medical degree, and set up practice in Philadelphia. He was the librarian and curator of the Academy of Natural Sciences, and a naturalist (principally botanist, but also herpetologist and ichthyologist) with the U.S. Exploring Expedition (1838-42).
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