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Nabokov, Vladimir
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Neal, John
Corresponding secretary, Portland Society of Natural History, 1851; Meisel, 1843

Neely, James Columbus 1867-1939
b, Memphis, TN; Primarily a sportsman who spent much time in Massachusetts; AOU

Neilson, William
Curator of Natural History, Essex Institute; Dexter, 1980, p. 32

Nelson, Harry Leverett 1858-1889

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Newell, Mrs. George H.
Shells; Dexter, 1986, Two centuries, p. 253

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Founder, Providence Franklin Society; Meisel, 1821

Newhall, Dr. Asa T.
Founder, Lynn Natural History Society; Dexter, 1962

Newhall, Charles S.
Member, Lynn Natural History Society; Dexter, 1962

Newhall, James R.
Lawyer; Founder, Lynn Natural History Society; Dexter, 1962

Newhall, Thomas B.
Lawyer; Founder, Lynn Natural History Society; Dexter, 1962

Newman, Mr.
Of Cold-Spring Place (Roxbury); Showed nest of Black and White Creeper to Nuttall; Nuttall, Remarks and Enquiries, p. 103

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Nichols, Abel
Danvers, MA; Birds

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Nichols, George Elwood 1882-1939

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Nichols, Rodman Armitage 1884-1940
b, d, Salem, MA; A founder of the Essex County Ornithological Club; AOU

Nichols, William Ripley Nat???

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Nickerson, Alonzo R.

Report, Commissioner of Sea and Shore Fisheries; Kendall, 1914. Fishes of Maine

Nickerson, Dr. F.

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Niles, Grace Greylock

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Norton, Arthur Herbert 1870-1943
b, Saint George, ME; Public schools; Curator, Portland Society of Natural History, 1905-; President, secretary, Maine Ornithological Society

Abbott, R. T. 1973. American Malacologists: A National Register of Professional and Amateur Malacologists and Private Shell Collectors and Biographies of Early American Mollusk Workers between 1618 and 1900 Falls Church, VA: American Malacologists, 494 pp.

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Member: Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences, New England Botanical Club, Maine Ornithological Society, Josselyn Botanical Society, Wilson Ornithological Club, American Society of Mammalogists, Audubon Society of Maine, National Association of Audubon Societies (Board of Directors); AOU

American Men of Science, ed. 3 (1921)

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Nuttall, Thomas 1786-1859
5 Jan. 1786-10 Sept. 1859; b, Settle, Yorkshire; d, Liverpool, England

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Nye, Dr. James M.
Founder, Lynn Natural History Society [Dexter, 1962]; Plants of included in Tracy, 1858

Nylander, Olof 1864-1943
b, Ysted, Sweden; d, Caribou, ME; Molluscs; Dexter, 1976; Sterki, p. 74

Abbott, R. T. 1973. American Malacologists: A National Register of Professional and Amateur Malacologists and Private Shell Collectors and Biographies of Early American Mollusk Workers between 1618 and 1900 Falls Church, VA: American Malacologists, 494 pp.

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Oak, Charles E.
Report, Commissioners of Inland Fisheries and Game, 1896; Kendall, 1914, Fishes of Maine

Oakes, William 1799-1848

Portrait: Bent, A. H. 1911. Bibliography of the White Mountains, opposite p. 10.

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Ogden, Eugene Cecil

Check-list of the vascular plants of Maine, by E. C. O., Ferdinand Henry Steinmetz, & Fay Hyland. Orono, ME: Josselyn Botanical Society of Maine, 1948, 69 p. Rev. ed. Orono, ME: Josselyn Botanical Society Bulletin no.8, 1966, 71p.

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Oliver, Dr. Henry Kemble, Jr. 1829-1919
b, Salem; d, Boston, MA; Harvard, 1852, Harvard Medical School, 1855; Boston physician; AOU, Dexter, 1980, p.23.

Oliver, J. A.

Amphibians and reptiles of New Hampshire. Pp. 195-217 in Biological Survey of the Connecticut Watershed, rept. no. 4, 1939. With J. R. Bailey [jr. author].

Oliver, William B.
Founder, Lynn Natural History Society; Dexter, 1962

Olmsted, Charles Edward

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Olmsted, Frederick Law

Zaitzevsky, S. 1982. Frederick Law Olmsted and the Boston park system. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 262 pp., [1] leaf of plates : ill., maps

Olney, Stephen Thayer 1812-1878
Rhode Island businessman; New Yorker? living in Providence, helped Gray with Manual (1846) [Dupree, p. 172]; Flowering plants, seaweeds

President, 1859-69, Providence Franklin Society [Meisel, 1821]

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Ordway, Albert
Student of Agassiz

Orton, James H. 1830-1877
21 Apr. 1830-25 Sept. 1877; b, Seneca Falls, NY; d, Lake Titicaca, Bolivia; American Journal of Science, ser. 3, vol. 14, p. 312, 1877

Abbott, R. T. 1973. American Malacologists: A National Register of Professional and Amateur Malacologists and Private Shell Collectors and Biographies of Early American Mollusk Workers between 1618 and 1900 Falls Church, VA: American Malacologists, 494 pp.

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Orton, William Allen

A partial list of the parasitic fungi of Vermont. Burlington: Reprinted by the Botanical Dept. of the University of Vermont, 1898, 21 p. (Contributions to the botany of Vermont 2). (From the twelfth annual report of the Vermont Agricultural Experiment Station, 1897-98)

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Osborne, Arthur Augustus 1881-1935
b,d, Peabody, MA; Banker; Member: National Association of Audubon Societies, Niorre Scince Club, Essex County Ornithological Club; AOU

Osborne, Dr. George ???????
Danvers; Plants; Dexter, 1977

Osburn, Raymond Carroll 1872-
b, Newark, OH; Columbia, PhD, 1906; Instructor-Assistant Professor of Zoology, Barnard College, 1907-; Associate director, New York Aquarium, 1910-; Woods Hole Faunal Survey, especially Bryozoa, and North American Syrphidae

American Men of Science, ed. 3 (1921)

Osgood, Dr. George
Danvers; Contributor to Jacob Bigelow's Florula; Member, Essex County Natural History Society, and Essex Institute.

Humphrey, J. E. 1896. Botany and botanists in New England. New England Magazine, v. 14, pp. 29-44 (p. 35).

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Osmun, Albert Vincent 1880-
b, Danbury, CT; Massachusetts College, MS, 1905; Instructor-Assistant Professor, Botany, Massachusetts College, 1903-; Ferns and flora of New England, mycology, soil bacteria

American Men of Science, ed. 3 (1921)

Osten Sacken, Carl Robert Romanovich von der 1828-1906
21 Aug. 1828-20 May 1906; b, St. Petersburg; d, Heidelberg

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Otis, Dr. George A.
Founder, Springfield Museum of Natural History, 1859; Curator of shells; Meisel, 1859

Owen, Maria Louisa 1825-1913

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A catalogue of plants growing without cultivation in the County of Nantucket, Mass. Northampton, MA: Gazette Printing Co., 1888, x, [2], 13-87 p. [Includes Marine Algae of Nantucket, by F. S. Collins, pp. 76-87]