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English biologist & botanical artist Marianne North was born #OTD in 1830.

She was notable for her plant & landscape paintings, her extensive foreign travels, her writings, her plant discoveries & the creation of her gallery at the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew.
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Marianne North (1830–1890) at her home in Ceylon Julia Margaret Cameron (1815–1879) - http://www.nla.gov.au/exhibitions/ellisrowan/officers_wife.html

Nepenthes northiana (c. 1876), Marianne North Gallery, Kew Gardens. The painting shows the pitcher plant's lower and an upper pitcher. Marianne North - Scanned from: Phillips, A., A. Lamb & C.C. Lee 2008. Pitcher Plants of Borneo. Second Edition. Natural History Publications (Borneo), Kota Kinabalu. Painting of Nepenthes northiana by Marianne North.

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