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Which botanist is credited with creating one of the first widely used natural systems of plant classification?

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1. Joseph Banks

B

2. Wilhelm Eichler

C

3. Joseph Dalton Hooker

D

4. Robert Brown

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August Wilhelm Eichler, also known under his Latinized name, Augustus Guilielmus Eichler, was a German botanist who developed a new system of classification of plants to reflect the concept of evolution.
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