Elisha Kent Kane
Elisha Kane; E. K. Kane
February 28, 1820 – February 16, 1857
explorer, military officer, physician, writer, botanical collector
American explorer and military medical officer (1820–1857)
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Has collected specimens later identified by:
Collected Sphagnaceae and identified Grimmiaceae