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Karl Heinrich Mertens
Karl Heinrich Mertens (17 May 1796 – 18 September 1830 Kronstadt), was a German botanist and naturalist, and son of the botanist Franz Carl Mertens.
Mertens was aboard the Russian vessel "Senyavin" under Captain Lieutenant Fedor Petrovich Litke with orders to explore the coasts of Russian America and Asia.
This turned out to be one of the most productive voyages of discovery in the nineteenth century. Mertens, ornithologist Baron von Kittlitz, and mineralogist Alexander Postels collected and described over 1 000 new species
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