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Born July 18, 1720 • England
Died June 26, 1793 (aged 72) • England
Notable Works “The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne”
Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin
British naturalist
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
John Needham
British naturalist
Bowerbank
James Scott Bowerbank
British naturalist and paleontologist
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
Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire
French naturalist
Swammerdam, Jan
Jan Swammerdam
Dutch naturalist
Aldrovandi, Ulisse
Ulisse Aldrovandi
Italian naturalist
Belon, detail from an engraving
Pierre Belon
French naturalist
Lyonnet, detail of an oil painting by Hendrik van Limborch, 1742; in a private collection
Pierre Lyonnet
Dutch naturalist and engraver
Félix-Archimède Pouchet
French naturalist
Huxley, Thomas Henry
Thomas Henry Huxley
British biologist
Ian Wilmut
British biologist
Charles Elton
English biologist
John Ray, detail of an oil painting; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
John Ray
English naturalist
Bateson, William
William Bateson
British biologist
Julian Huxley
Sir Julian Huxley
British biologist

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Michael Faraday (L) English physicist and chemist (electromagnetism) and John Frederic Daniell (R) British chemist and meteorologist who invented the Daniell cell.
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