George Valentine Nash
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George Valentine Nash was an American
United States
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 botanist. Employeed by the New York Botanical Garden
New York Botanical Garden
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, Nash did field work in the Bahamas, South Florida and Haiti.

He published Costa Rican Orchids (1906) North American Flora (1909)

Nash Park in Clifton, New Jersey
Clifton, New Jersey
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is named after him.
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