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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 (256)
- 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
- 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
- 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 (c 1739-1812), entomologist
- Davy, Martin (1763-1839), academic and physician
- Dawson, Warren Royal (1888-1968), Egyptologist and antiquary
- 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
- Dyer, Sir William Turner Thiselton- (1843-1928) Knight, botanist
- 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
- Fontaines, Rene Louiche Des (1750-1833) French botanist
- 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 (b 1917) Fox, lepidopterist
- 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, Carl 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
- Monceau, Henri Louis Duhamel du (1700-1782) Seigneur de Denanvilliers, French Engineer and Agriculturist
- 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
- 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
- Schmaltz, Constantine Samuel Rafinesque- (1783-1840) Naturalist
- Schomburgk, Sir Robert Hermann (1804-1865) Knight, botanist
- Scott, Dukinfield Henry (1854-1934), botanist
- Seemann, Berthold Carl (1825-1871) Botanist
- Serra, Jose Francisco Correa Da (1750-1823) Portuguese Statesman and 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
- 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
- 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), wife of 2nd Marquess of Rockingham
- Weiss, Frederick Ernest (1865-1953), botanist
- Welwitsch, Freidrich 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 (fl 1865-1924) Naturalist, Birtley 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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