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Isaac Davis Clark
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Charles Anderson Dana
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John Wesley Duvall
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Winfield Scott Featherston
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Lewis Griffith Sparrow
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Walter Chiles Whitaker
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| Science/Technology | The American Scientific Association concludes its annual meeting in Springfield, Massachusetts | 08/08/1859 |