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Organisations (7)
- Botanical Society of London London
- British Coelenterate Society
- Council for Nature
- Linnean Society of London London
- Marlborough College Natural History Society Marlborough, Wiltshire
- Society for Promoting Natural History
- Womens Linnean Club London
Persons (257)
- Abbot, Charles, (1761-1817), botanist
- Acharius, Erik, (1757-1819), Swedish physician and botanist
- Afzelius, Adam, (1750-1837), Botanist
- Allioni, Carlo, (1725-1804), Italian Physician and Botanist
- Allman, George James, (1812-1898), botanist and zoologist
- Anderson, Alexander, (d 1811), botanist
- Archer, William, (1820-1874), architect and botanist
- Arnold, Joseph, (1782-1818), surgeon and naturalist
- Avril, (b 1917), Fox, lepidopterist
- Backhouse, James, (1794-1869), Quaker Missionary Naturalist
- Baillie, Matthew, (1761-1823), Physician and Anatomist
- Baines, Henry, (1793-1878), horticulturist
- Baird, William, (1803-1872), zoologist
- Baker, Sir George, (1722-1809), Knight, physician
- Banks, Sir Joseph, (1743-1820), Knight, Baronet, naturalist
- Barker, Edmund Henry, (1788-1839), Classical Scholar
- Barrington, Shute, (1734-1826), Bishop of Durham
- Baster, Job, (1711-1775), Algologist
- Bentham, George, (1800-1884), Botanist
- Berkeley, Miles Joseph, (1803-1889), Mycologist
- Bigelow, Jacob, (1787-1879), American Physician and Botanist
- Billardiere, Jacques Julien Houtou de la, (1755-1834), French naturalist
- Bingley, William, (1774-1823), Anglican clergyman, topographer and miscellaneous writer
- Blow, Thomas Bates, (1854-1941), botanist
- Boott, Francis, (1792-1863), Physician and Botanist
- Borlase, William, (1696-1772), rector of Ludgvan, antiquary and naturalist
- Borrer, William, (1781-1862), botanist
- Boys, William, (1735-1803), surgeon antiquary
- Brand, John, (d 1808), Rector of St George's, Southwark, Tory Pamphleteer
- Brande, William Thomas, (1788-1866), chemist
- Broderip, William John, (1789-1859), Lawyer and Naturalist
- Broussonet, Pierre Marie Auguste, (1761-1807), French politician, botanist
- Brown, Robert, (1773-1858), botanist
- Browne, Patrick, (? 1720-1790), naturalist
- Brownrigg, William, (1711-1800), chemist
- Brutelle, Charles Louis L'Heritier de, (1746-1800), botanist
- Buchanan, Francis Hamilton, (1762-1829), surgeon and botanist
- Buckland, William, (1784-1856), Dean of Westminster, geologist
- Burchell, William John, (1781-1863), explorer and naturalist
- Caldwell, Andrew, (1733-1808), Barrister
- Carey, William, (1761-1834), orientalist and missionary
- Carruthers, William, (1830-1922), Botanist
- Cavanilles, Antonio Jose, (1744-1804), Botanist
- Clarke, Charles Baron, (1832-1906), Botanist
- Coke, Thomas William, (1754-1842), 1st Earl of Leicester
- Colden, Cadwallader, (1688-1776), botanist and American loyalist
- Coleman, William Higgins, (1816-1863), Schoolmaster and Author
- Collingwood, Cuthbert, (1826-1908), surgeon and naturalist
- Collinson, Peter, (1694-1768), Naturalist Antiquary
- Cornelius, Paul S F, (1943-2015), academic
- Correa Da Serra, Jose Francisco, (1750-1823), Portuguese Statesman and Botanist
- Couch, Jonathan, (1789-1870), naturalist
- Coxe, William, (1747-1828), Archdeacon of Wiltshire and historian
- Coyte, William Beeston, (1741-1810), Botanist
- Cullum, Sir Thomas Gery, (1741-1831), 7th Baronet Herald and Botanist
- Currey, Frederick, (1819-1881), Mycologist
- Curtis, William, (1746-1799), botanist
- Darwin, Charles Robert, (1809-1882), naturalist
- Davall, Edmund, (1763-1798), Botanist
- Davies, Hugh, (1739-1821), Botanist
- Davies, Thomas, (c1737-1812), British Army officer, artist and natural historian
- Davy, Martin, (1763-1839), academic and physician
- Dawson, Warren Royal, (1888-1968), Egyptologist and antiquary
- Des Fontaines, Rene Louiche, (1750-1833), French botanist
- Dickson, James, (1738-1822), Botanist
- Dillenius, Johann Jakob, (1687-1747), Botanist
- Dillwyn, Lewis Weston, (1778-1855), naturalist, MP, pottery manufacturer
- Don, David, (1799-1841), Botanist
- Don, George, (1798-1856), botanist
- Duhamel du Monceau, Henri Louis, (1700-1782), Seigneur de Denanvilliers, French Engineer and Agriculturist
- Edwards, Frank, (fl 1887-1888), whaler
- Edwards, Sydenham Teast, (1768-1819), Botanist
- Ellis, Henry, (1721-1806), explorer and colonial governor
- Ellis, John, (1714-1776), naturalist
- Eversfield, William, (1739-1813), naturalist
- Farrer, Thomas Henry, (1819-1899), 1st Baron Farrer, civil servant
- Fitter, Richard Sidney Richmond, (b 1913), Author and Naturalist
- Flower, Stanley Smyth, (1871-1946), zoologist
- Forbes, Edward, (1815-1854), naturalist
- Forster, Edward, (1765-1849), botanist
- Forster, Thomas Furly, (1761-1825), Botanist
- Foster, John, (1740-1828), Baron Oriel, politician
- Foster, Sir Michael, (1836-1907), Knight, physiologist and politician
- Fothergill, John, (1712-1780), physician
- Fox, Avril, (1917-2015), entomologist Malaysia;South Africa
- Frankland, Sir Edward, (1825-1899), Knight Chemist
- Frankland, Sir Thomas, (1750-1831), 6th Baronet MP and Botanist
- Gage, Andrew Thomas, (1871-1945), Botanist
- Garden, Alexander, (1730-1791), botanist
- Gardener, William, (1901-1990), Botanist
- Gathorne-Hardy, Gathorrne, (b 1933), 5th Earl of Cranbrook
- Goodall, Joseph, (1760-1840), Provost of Eton, Canon of Windsor and antiquary
- Goodenough, Samuel, (1743-1827), Bishop of Carlisle botanist
- Grant, Barbara Rosemary, (b1936), evoluntionary biologist Arnside, Westmorland
- Grant, Peter Raymond, (b 1936), evoluntionary biologist London
- Gray, John Edward, (1800-1875), naturalist
- Greenwood, Peter Humphry, (1927-1995), ichthyologist
- Griffith, William, (1810-1845), Botanist
- Gunther, Albert Carl Ludwig Gotthilf, (1830-1914), Zoologist
- Gunther, Robert William Theodore, (1869-1940), Zoologist and Antiquary
- Gwatkin, Joshua Reynolds Gascoigne, (1855-1939), Botanist
- Hales, Stephen, (1677-1761), Physiologist and Inventor
- Hardwicke, Thomas, (1757-1835), Major General, naturalist
- Hardy, Peter, (b 1931), MP
- Harmer, Sir Sidney Frederic, (1862-1950), Knight, zoologist
- Hawkins, John, (1761-1841), author traveller botanist geologist
- Henley, Robert, (1708-1772), 1st Earl of Northington, Lord Chancellor
- Henslow, George, (1835-1925), Botanist
- Hermann, Johannes, (1738-1800), Physician and Naturalist
- Hibberd, James Shirley, (1825-1890), journalist and horticultural writer
- Hiern, William Philip, (1839-1925), Botanist and Mathematician
- Hodgson, Brian Houghton, (1800-1894), Indian Civil Servant Naturalist
- Holmes, Edward Morrell, (1843-1930), Botanist and Pharmacologist
- Hooker, Sir Joseph Dalton, (1817-1911), Knight, botanist, explorer, Director of Kew Gardens
- Hooker, Sir William Jackson, (1785-1865), Knight, botanist Norwich, Norfolk
- Hope, John, (1725-1786), botanist and physician
- Hope, Thomas Charles, (1766-1844), chemist
- Horsfield, Thomas, (1773-1859), Naturalist
- Irving, Edward George, (1816-1855), Physician and Botanist
- Jackson, Benjamin Daydon, (1846-1927), Botanist
- Janson, Joseph, (1789-1846), Botanist
- Jardine, Sir William, (1800-1874), 7th Baronet Naturalist
- Johnes, Thomas, (1748-1816), of Hafod, antiquary, translator and MP
- Jussieu, Antoine Laurent de, (1748-1836), French botanist
- Kalm, Pehr, (1716-1779), Swedish botanist
- Keith, Patrick, (1769-1840), Vicar of Stalisfield Botanist
- Kelaart, Edward Frederick, (c 1818-1860), Botanist
- Kendrick, James, (1771-1847), Physician and Botanist
- Kermack, Doris Mary, (1923-2003), zoologist
- Kermack, Kenneth Alexander, (1919-2000), zoologist
- Kirby, William, (1759-1850), Rector of Barham Entomologist
- Knapp, John Leonard, (1767-1845), botanist
- Knight, Thomas Andrew, (1759-1838), Plant Physiologist
- Konig, Charles Dietrich Eberhard, (1774-1851), mineralogist
- Konig, Johan Gerhard, (1728-1785), Missionary Physician and Botanist
- Lambert, Aylmer Bourke, (1761-1842), Botanist
- Lardner, Dionysius, (1793-1859), Scientific Writer
- Latham, John, (1740-1837), ornithologist
- Latreille, Pierre Andre, (1762-1833), Entomologist
- Lawson, Thomas, (1630-1691), Quaker and Botanist
- Leach, William Elford, (1790-1836), Naturalist
- Legge, George, (1755-1810), 3rd Earl of Dartmouth
- Lewin, John William, (c 1770-1819), Naturalist
- Lightfoot, John, (1735-1788), Naturalist
- Lindsay, John, (d 1803), Surgeon Cryptogamist
- Linnaeus, Carl, (1707-1778), Naturalist
- Lister, Martin, (1638-1712), zoologist
- Loudon, John Claudius, (1783-1843), landscape gardener and horticultural writer
- Lucas, Grenville Llewelyn, (b 1935), Conservationist and Botanist
- Lyall, Robert, (1790-1831), Botanist and Traveller
- Lyman, Theodore, (1792-1849), American Philanthropist
- Lyons, Israel, (1735-1775), mathematician and botanist
- Mackay, James Townsend, (1775-1862), Botanist
- Macleay, Alexander, (1767-1848), colonial administrator and entomologist
- Macleay, William Sharp, (1792-1865), entomologist
- Marsh, Thomas Orlebar, (1749-1831), vicar, antiquary and naturalist
- Marsham, Thomas, (d 1819), Entomologist
- Martyn, Thomas, (1735-1825), botanist
- Maton, William George, (1774-1835), Physician Antiquary
- Mcintosh, William Carmichael, (1838-1931), zoologist
- Menzies, Archibald, (1754-1842), Surgeon and Botanist
- Minchin, Edward, (1866-1915), Zoologist
- Mitten, William, (1819-1906), Botanist
- Montagu, George, (1755-1815), Naturalist
- More, Alexander Goodman, (1830-1895), botanist
- Muehlenberg, Gotthilf Heinrich Ernst, (1753-1815), American Botanist
- Murie, James, (1832-1925), Naturalist
- Newport, George, (1803-1854), Naturalist
- Nicholls, Frank, (1699-1778), Physician and Botanist
- Nicholson, Edward Max, (1904-2003), ornithologist and environmentalist
- Noel, Emilia Frances, (d 1950), Botanist
- North, Brownlow, (1741-1820), Bishop of Winchester
- Omer-Cooper, Joseph, (1893-1972), naturalist
- Owen, Sir Richard, (1804-1892), Knight, comparative anatomist and palaeontologist
- Pearson, Arthur Anselm, (1874-1954), Mycologist
- Pennant, Thomas, (1726-1798), naturalist, traveller and topographer
- Plumier, Charles, (1646-1706), Botanist
- Poulton, Sir Edward Bagnall, (1856-1943), Knight Zoologist
- Powell, Thomas, (1809-1887), missionary and botanist
- Pulteney, Richard, (1730-1801), Botanist
- Rackett, Thomas, (1757-1851), Rector of Spetisbury Antiquary
- Rafinesque-Schmaltz, Constantine Samuel, (1783-1840), Naturalist
- Repton, Humphry, (1752-1818), landscape gardener
- Richardson, Sir John, (1787-1865), Knight, surgeon, Arctic explorer and naturalist
- Romanes, George John, (1848-1894), scientist
- Roscoe, William, (1753-1831), banker, botanist, historian and politician
- Roth, Albrecht Wilhelm, (1757-1834), Botanist
- Roxburgh, William, (1751-1815), botanist
- Rudbeck, Olof, (1660-1740), Botanist
- Russell, John, (1766-1839), 6th Duke of Bedford
- Sabine, Joseph, (1770-1837), Inspector General of Assessed Taxes, horticulturist
- Salisbury, Richard Anthony, (1761-1829), Botanist
- Sandford, Daniel, (1766-1830), Bishop of Edinburgh
- Savage, Spencer, (1886-1966), Botanist
- Sawert, John Charles, (d 1904), Botanist
- Scarpa, Antonio, (1747-1832), Italian Anatomist
- Schomburgk, Sir Robert Hermann, (1804-1865), Knight, botanist
- Scott, Dukinfield Henry, (1854-1934), botanist
- Seemann, Berthold Carl, (1825-1871), Botanist
- Sibthorp, Humphrey, (1713-1797), Botanist
- Sibthorp, John, (1758-1796), Botanist
- Smeatham, Henry, (d 1786), Botanist
- Smeathman, Henry, (d 1786), Botanist
- Smith, Charles Hamilton, (1776-1859), soldier, naturalist and antiquary
- Smith, Sir James Edward, (1759-1828), Knight, botanist
- Smith, Lady Pleasance, (1773-1877), centenarian
- Smythies, Bertram Evelyn, (1912-1999), ornithologist and botanist
- Solander, Daniel Carlsson, (1736-1782), Botanist
- Sowerby, James, (1757-1822), naturalist
- Spruce, Richard, (1817-1893), botanist
- Stackhouse, John, (1742-1819), Botanist
- Stephens, James Francis, (1792-1852), entomologist
- Stonhouse, Sir James, (1716-1795), 11th Baronet Physician and Anglican Clergyman
- Stovin, Margaret, (1756-1846), Botanist
- Strzelecki, Sir Paul Edmund de, (1796-1873), Knight, Polish emigre, traveller and explorer
- Swainson, William, (1789-1855), naturalist and artist
- Swartz, Olof, (1760-1817), Botanist
- Thiselton-Dyer, Sir William Turner, (1843-1928), Knight, botanist
- Thompson, John Vaughan, (1779-1847), Surgeon and Zoologist
- Thouin, Andre, (1747-1824), Botanist
- Thunberg, Carl Peter, (1743-1828), Botanist
- Tournefort, Joseph Pitton de, (1656-1708), botanist
- Traill, Thomas Stewart, (1781-1862), physician and specialist in medical jurisprudence
- Trimen, Henry, (1843-1896), Botanist
- Turnbull, John, (fl 1804-1815), artist
- Turner, Dawson, (1775-1858), banker, botanist, art collector and antiquary Great Yarmouth, Norfolk
- Tyley, John, (fl1793-1800), Caribbean botanical illustrator
- Velley, Thomas, (1748-1806), Botanist
- Vigors, Nicholas Aylward, (1785-1840), Zoologist and MP for Carlow Borough 1832-35 and for Carlow County 1837-40.
- Wade, Walter, (d 1825), Irish Botanist
- Walker, Francis, (1809-1874), Entomologist
- Wallace, Alfred Russel, (1823-1913), naturalist
- Wallich, Nathaniel, (1786-1854), botanist
- Ward, Nathaniel Bagshaw, (1791-1868), Botanist
- Watson, White, (1760-1835), geologist
- Watson, Sir William, (1715-1787), Knight Physician and Scientist
- Watson-Wentworth, Mary, (1736-1804), Marchioness of Rockingham
- Weiss, Frederick Ernest, (1865-1953), botanist
- Welwitsch, Friedrich Martin Josef, (1806-1872), German botanist
- Wentworth, Sir John, (1737-1820), 1st Baronet, colonial governor
- Westwood, John Obadiah, (1805-1893), Entomologist Antiquary
- Wheeler, Thomas, (1754-1847), botanist
- Whitwell, William, (1839-1920), Civil Servant Botanist
- Williams, George, (1762-1834), physician and botanist
- Willis, John Christopher, (1868-1958), botanist
- Winch, Nathaniel John, (? 1769-1838), Botanist
- Withering, William, (1741-1799), Physician Botanist and Mineralogist
- Withering, William, (1775-1832), Botanist
- Wood, Searles Valentine, (1798-1880), geologist
- Woods, Joseph, (1776-1864), Architect and Botanist
- Woodward, Bernard Barham, (1853-1930), Naturalist
- Woodward, Bernard Bolingbroke, (1816-1869), Historian Royal Librarian
- Woodward, Samuel Pickworth, (1821-1865), naturalist
- Woodward, Thomas Jenkinson, (1745-1820), botanist
- Worthington, Edgar Barton, (1905-2001), biologist
- Yarrell, William, (1784-1856), zoologist
- Yates, James, (1789-1871), Unitarian and Antiquary
Diaries (1)
- Robson, Charles, Naturalist Birtley, Durham
Families (2)
- Borrer family of Pakyns Manor Pakyns Manor, Sussex;Cowfold, Sussex;Henfield, Sussex;Hurstpierpoint, Sussex
- Knight family of Downton Castle Downton Castle, Herefordshire;Wormsley, Herefordshire
Paper catalogues available to view at The National Archives - (2)
- NRA 9516 Linnean Society: scientific MSS link to scanned list link to scanned list
- NRA 22111 William Swainson, naturalist: corresp link to scanned list
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