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Born May 17, 1817 • Edinburgh • Scotland
Died October 14, 1885 (aged 68) • Brighton • England
Subjects Of Study lamp shell • fossil

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American paleontologist
Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin
British naturalist
Georges Cuvier
Georges Cuvier
French zoologist
Alfred Sherwood Romer, 1965
Alfred Sherwood Romer
American biologist
George Gaylord Simpson
American paleontologist
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
Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg
German biologist
Roy Chapman Andrews
Roy Chapman Andrews
American naturalist
Otto Heinrich Schindewolf
German paleontologist
Leidy
Joseph Leidy
American zoologist
Edward Drinker Cope, c. 1889
Edward Drinker Cope
American paleontologist
ameghino, florentino
Florentino Ameghino
Argentine anthropologist
William Lonsdale
British geologist
Charles William Peach
English naturalist and geologist
Marsh, Othniel Charles
Othniel Charles Marsh
American paleontologist
Hyatt, Alpheus
Alpheus Hyatt
American zoologist and paleontologist
Daubenton, detail of a bust by an unknown artist
Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton
French naturalist
Joachim Barrande
French geologist
Oliver Perry Hay
American paleontologist
Marcellin Boule
Marcellin Boule
French geologist