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Born	August 4, 1608 • England
Died	April 22, 1662 (aged 53) • England
Founder	Ashmolean Museum

Charles Darwin

Charles Darwin

British naturalist

Thomas Nuttall, engraving by Thomson, 1825, after a drawing by W. Derby

Thomas Nuttall

British naturalist

Sloane, detail of an oil painting by S. Slaughter, 1736; in the National Portrait Gallery, London

Sir Hans Sloane, Baronet

British physician

Akeley, Carl E.

Carl E. Akeley

American naturalist and explorer

Baird, Spencer Fullerton

Spencer Fullerton Baird

American naturalist

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Emil Holub

Bohemian naturalist

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Addison Emery Verrill

American zoologist

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John Bartram

American naturalist

British naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace

Alfred Russel Wallace

British naturalist

John Ray, detail of an oil painting; in the National Portrait Gallery, London

John Ray

English naturalist

Whewell, plaster cast of bust by Edward Hodges Baily, 1851; in the National Portrait Gallery, London

William Whewell

British philosopher and historian

Sir Joseph Banks, engraving by Ridley, 1802

Sir Joseph Banks

British naturalist

William Williamson, oil painting by A. Brothers, 1887; in the University Library, Manchester

William Crawford Williamson

English 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

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William Turner

English botanist

Bates, H.W.

H.W. Bates

British naturalist and explorer

Seton, Ernest Thompson

Ernest Thompson Seton

American writer

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Silvanus Phillips Thompson

British physicist and historian

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Gilbert White

English naturalist and clergyman