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Dr. Samuel Barnum Mead, Physician and Botanist
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Carte-de-visite portrait of Dr. Samuel Barnum Mead (1799-1880), Illinois-based physician and botanist. Mead, a pioneer in both the fields of medicine and botany, discovered the plant now known as "Mead's milkweed" (Asclepias meadii), which was placed on the list of U.S. endangered species in 1988. Photograph has been clipped into an oval shape and mounted on cardstock. Handwritten inscription at the bottom reads: "Dr. S.B. Meade [sic]."
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