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Contents | Benjamin Smith Barton![]() Physician, professor of natural history at the University of Pennsylvania. Author of first American botany textbook. In 1803, he taught natural history to Meriwether Lewis in preparation for Lewis & Clark Expedition, 1803 - 1806. He lived here. Website: https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=24649 Related albums • See other albumsPhiladelphia Historical MarkersRelated peopleBenjamin Smith BartonSources
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