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Born February 9, 1839 • Maine
Died December 10, 1926 (aged 87) • Santa Barbara • California
Subjects Of Study invertebrate • ocean
Hyatt, Alpheus
Alpheus Hyatt
American zoologist and paleontologist
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Charles Atwood Kofoid
American zoologist
Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin
British naturalist
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
French biologist
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Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire
French naturalist
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Charles William Peach
English naturalist and geologist
Philip Henry Gosse, portrait miniature by W. Gosse, 1839; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Philip Henry Gosse
British naturalist
C. Wyville Thomson, 1877.
Sir C. Wyville Thomson
Scottish naturalist
Louis Agassiz
Louis Agassiz
Swiss-born American naturalist, geologist, and teacher
John James Audubon
John James Audubon
ornithologist, artist, and naturalist
Akeley, Carl E.
Carl E. Akeley
American naturalist and explorer
Sepia albumen silver print portrait of Augustus Addison Gould seated beside an ornate table, wearing a dark suit and bow tie, photographed by F. L. Lay.
Augustus A. Gould
American naturalist
Rafinesque, Constantine Samuel
Constantine Samuel Rafinesque
Turkish naturalist
Baird, Spencer Fullerton
Spencer Fullerton Baird
American naturalist
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Mary Jane Rathbun
American marine zoologist
Goode, G. Brown
G. Brown Goode
American zoologist
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John Bartram
American naturalist
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Edmund Newton Harvey
American zoologist
Conrad Gesner.
Conrad Gesner
Swiss physician and naturalist
Sloane, detail of an oil painting by S. Slaughter, 1736; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Sir Hans Sloane, Baronet
British physician

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