Richard Spruce
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Richard Spruce was an English botanist specializing in bryology. One of the great Victorian botanical explorers, Spruce spent 15 years exploring the Amazon from the Andes to its mouth, and was one of
Richard Spruce 1864 taken upon his return from Brazil
Memorial on the house in Coneysthorpe (North Yorkshire) where Spruce spent his last years
Amazon River
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The Amazon River in South America is the largest river by discharge volume of water in the world, and the second-longest or longest river system in the world, a title which is disputed with the Nile.
Richard Spruce
…December 1893) was an English botanist specializing in bryology. One of the great Victorian botanical explorers, Spruce spent 15 years exploring the Amazon from the Andes to its mouth, and was one of the very first Europeans to observe many of the places where he collected specimens. Spruce discovered and…
Old drawing (from 1879) of Arapaima fishing at the Amazon River. The arapaima has been on Earth for at least 23 million years.
Amazon tributaries near Manaus
Amazonas state
Amazon Theatre opera house in Manaus built in 1896 during the rubber boom