Albert Callay
botanist (1822-1896)
Eugène Albert Athanase Callay (born February 21, 1822, in Montcornet, Aisne and died in Le Chesne, Ardennes March 24, 1896) was a French pharmacist and amateur botanist who worked on classifying the flora of the department of the Ardennes.
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