With whom did William Blakely work on Eucalyptus?
Joseph Banks
Joseph Maiden
Alfred Russell Wallace
Charles Darwin
Answer
William Blakely worked on Eucalyptus with Joseph Maiden. The two men published a book together called A Critical Revision of the Eucalyptus, in which they described and classified over 1,000 species of eucalypts. Their work was instrumental in the development of the modern understanding of eucalypts.
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