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Gustaf Johan Billberg
Swedish botanist, zoologist and anatomist / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Gustaf Johan Billberg (14 June 1772, Karlskrona – 26 November 1844, Stockholm) was a Swedish botanist, zoologist and anatomist, although professionally and by training he was a lawyer and used science and biology as an avocation. The plant genus Billbergia was named for him by Carl Peter Thunberg.[1][2]
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