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Born September 30, 1842 • England
Died March 13, 1920 (aged 77) • Birmingham • England
Subjects Of Study Ordovician Period
Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin
British naturalist
Smith, William
William Smith
British geologist
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William Lonsdale
British geologist
Beche, Sir Henry Thomas De La
Sir Henry Thomas De La Beche
British geologist
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Charles William Peach
English naturalist and geologist
Fuchs, Vivian Ernest
Vivian Fuchs
British explorer and geologist
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Herbert Harold Read
British geologist
Pengelly, William
William Pengelly
British educator and geologist
Charles Lyell
Charles Lyell
Scottish geologist
Roderick Impey Murchison
Sir Roderick Impey Murchison
British geologist
Adam Sedgwick, engraving, 1875
Adam Sedgwick
British geologist
Forbes, Edward
Edward Forbes
British naturalist
Scrope, George Julius Poulett
George Julius Poulett Scrope
British geologist
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John Michell
British geologist and astronomer
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Jean André Deluc
Swiss-British geologist and meteorologist
Henslow, lithograph by T.H. Maguire, 1851
John Stevens Henslow
British botanist
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Sir Archibald Geikie
British geologist
William Buckland
William Buckland
British geologist
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Henry Clifton Sorby
British geologist
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John Milne
British scientist

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