Charles Sprague Sargent
Overview
United States
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botanist. He was the first director of the Arnold Arboretum at Harvard University
Harvard University
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in Boston, Massachusetts and the standard botanical author abbreviation Sarg. is applied to plants he described.
Sargent was the second son of Henrietta (Gray) and Ignatius Sargent, a Boston merchant and banker who grew wealthy on railroad investments.
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