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Born July 14, 1797 • London • England
Died March 8, 1877 (aged 79) • London • England
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Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin
British naturalist
Huxley, Thomas Henry
Thomas Henry Huxley
British biologist
British naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace
Alfred Russel Wallace
British naturalist
Sir Joseph Banks, engraving by Ridley, 1802
Sir Joseph Banks
British naturalist
Bates, H.W.
H.W. Bates
British naturalist and explorer
Conrad Gesner.
Conrad Gesner
Swiss physician and naturalist
John Ray, detail of an oil painting; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
John Ray
English naturalist
Sloane, detail of an oil painting by S. Slaughter, 1736; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Sir Hans Sloane, Baronet
British physician
Thomas Nuttall, engraving by Thomson, 1825, after a drawing by W. Derby
Thomas Nuttall
British naturalist
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William Turner
English botanist
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Gilbert White
English naturalist and clergyman
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John Needham
British naturalist
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Ian Wilmut
British biologist
Sir Richard Owen
Richard Owen
British anatomist and paleontologist
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
British botanist
Bateson, William
William Bateson
British biologist
St. George Jackson Mivart
St. George Jackson Mivart
British biologist
Atkins, Anna: Ferns
Anna Atkins
English photographer and botanist
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William Lonsdale
British geologist
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Charles William Peach
English naturalist and geologist

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