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- ↑ Slatter, Enid. "Abbot, Charles (1761–1817), botanist and entomologist". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 13 October 2023.
- ↑ Foster, Joseph (1888–1892). . Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886 . Oxford: Parker and Co – via Wikisource.
- ↑ Slatter, Enid (2010) [First published 2004]. "Abbot, Charles". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/2.(Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ↑ International Plant Names Index. C.Abbot.
- Attribution
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain : Stephen, Leslie, ed. (1885). "Abbot, Charles (d.1817)". Dictionary of National Biography . Vol. 1. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
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