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Born September 30, 1800 • England
Died February 28, 1886 (aged 85) • Edinburgh • Scotland
Subjects Of Study invertebrate • fossil • ocean
Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin
British naturalist
William Lonsdale
British geologist
Philip Henry Gosse, portrait miniature by W. Gosse, 1839; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Philip Henry Gosse
British naturalist
Addison Emery Verrill
American zoologist
C. Wyville Thomson, 1877.
Sir C. Wyville Thomson
Scottish naturalist
Mantell, detail of an engraving
Gideon Algernon Mantell
British paleontologist
British naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace
Alfred Russel Wallace
British naturalist
Smith, William
William Smith
British geologist
Sir Richard Owen, detail of an oil painting by H.W. Pickersgill, 1845; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Richard Owen
British anatomist and paleontologist
Sir Joseph Banks, engraving by Ridley, 1802
Sir Joseph Banks
British naturalist
Beche, Sir Henry Thomas De La
Sir Henry Thomas De La Beche
British geologist
Bates, H.W.
H.W. Bates
British naturalist and explorer
Fuchs, Vivian Ernest
Vivian Fuchs
British explorer and geologist
Charles Lapworth
British geologist
Bowerbank
James Scott Bowerbank
British naturalist and paleontologist
Herbert Harold Read
British geologist
Pengelly, William
William Pengelly
British educator and geologist
Amos Eaton
American botanist, geologist, and lawyer
James Hutton
James Hutton
Scottish geologist
Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire
French naturalist

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