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Businesses (2)
Organisations (25)
- Association of School Natural History Societies
- Botanical Society of London London
- British Association for the Advancement of Science London
- British Empire Mosquito Association Hayling, Hampshire
- British Mineralogical Society
- Centre for Overseas Pest Research, London London
- Darwinian Museum, Moscow Moscow, Russia
- Harold Hall expeditions Australia
- HMS Challenger (1858)
- International Biological Programme
- Linnean Society of London London
- Medico-Botanical Society of London London
- Natural History Museum London
- Old Hawking Club
- Palaeontological Association
- Ray Society
- Royal Society of London London
- Sale Natural History Society Sale, Cheshire
- Scotia, whaler
- Society for the Bibliography of Natural History London
- Society of Amateur Botanists
- SS Discovery
- Streatham Entomological and Natural History Society Streatham, Surrey
- Terra Nova Dundee, Angus
- Victoria County History
Persons (720)
- Abbot, Charles, (1761-1817), botanist
- Abbot, John, (1750-1840), ornithologist
- Adams, Lionel Ernest, (1854-1945), teacher and conchologist
- Agassiz, Jean Louis Rodolphe, (1807-1873), naturalist
- Airy, Sir George Biddell, (1801-1892), Knight, astronomer and mathematician
- Aiton, William, (1731-1793), Botanist
- Albin, Eleazer, (fl 1713-1759), Naturalist and Painter
- Alcock, Alfred William, (1859-1933), zoologist
- Alder, Joshua, (1792-1867), zoologist
- Alexander, Boyd, (1873-1910), traveller and ornithologist
- Allan, Thomas, (1777-1833), mineralogist
- Allen, David Elliston, (b 1932), Naturalist
- Allen, William Beriah, (1875-1922), Mycologist
- Anderson, Alexander, (d 1811), botanist
- Anderson, Andrew, (d 1878), Indian civil servant, ornithologist
- Anderson, William, (1750-1778), surgeon and naturalist
- Andrews, Charles William, (1866-1924), Palaeontologist
- Andrews, Peter, (b c 1935), anthropologist
- Annandale, Thomas Nelson, (1876-1924), zoologist
- Appleby, John Hilary, (b 1938), writer and translator
- Arber, Edward Alexander Newell, (1870-1918), botanist
- Armitage, John, (1910-1980), editor and bookseller
- Arnold, Frederick Henry, (1831-1906), botanist
- Arnott, George Arnott Walker, (1799-1868), botanist
- Atkinson, Edward Leicester, (1882-1929), Surgeon Captain
- Atkinson, Edwin Felix Thomas, (1840-1890), Entomologist
- Aublet, Jean Baptiste Christophe Fusee, (1720-1778), botanist
- Audouin, Jean Victor, (1797-1841), Entomologist
- Babington, Charles Cardale, (1808-1895), botanist and archaeologist
- Bacstrom, Sigismund, (fl 1770-1799), surgeon and naturalist
- Bailey, Frederick Marshman, (1882-1967), Lieutenant Colonel Lepidopterist
- Baines, John Thomas, (1822-1875), artist and explorer
- Baker, John Gilbert, (1834-1920), Botanist
- Balfour, Sir Isaac Bayley, (1853-1922), Knight, botanist
- Ball, Harold William, (b 1926), Dr, Keeper of Palaeontology
- Ball, Robert, (1802-1857), Naturalist
- Bankes, Eustace Ralph, (1861-1929), Entomologist
- Banks, Sir Joseph, (1743-1820), Knight, Baronet, naturalist
- Banks, Sarah Sophia, (1744-1818), Bibliophile Numismatist Naturalist
- Banks, Thomas Christopher, (1765-1854), lawyer and genealogist
- Bannerman, David Armitage, (1886-1979), Ornithologist
- Bannister, Frederick Allan, (1901-1970), mineralogist
- Barclay, Arthur, (1852-1891), Naturalist
- Barclay, George, (c1789-1869), botanical collector
- Bartalini, Biagio, (1746-1822), Professor of Natural History
- Bartram, John, (1699-1777), Botanist
- Bartram, William, (1739-1828), Naturalist
- Basden, Eric Bernard, (1913-1984), bibliographer and antiquary Farnham Royal, Buckinghamshire
- Bastin, Alfred Harold, (1875-1962), Entomologist Photographer
- Batchelor, Dennis Malcolm, (1929-2003), ornithologist Malaya;Borneo;United Kingdom
- Bate, Charles Spence, (1819-1889), Scientific Writer
- Bate, Dorothea Minola Alice, (1878-1951), palaeontologist Carmarthen, Carmarthenshire
- Bates, George Latimer, (1863-1940), Ornithologist
- Bates, Henry Walter, (1825-1892), naturalist
- Bather, Francis Arthur, (1863-1934), Geologist
- Batters, Edward Arthur Lionel, (1860-1907), Botanist
- Bauer, Franz Andreas, (1758-1840), botanical artist
- Baxter, Claude Henry Baxter, (1878-1958), ornithologist
- Bayford, Edwin, (1865-1958), naturalist
- Bayles, Nathaniel, (c 1717-1791), surgeon Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland
- Beaglehole, John Cawte, (1901-1971), historian
- Beckles, Samuel Husband, (1814-1890), geologist
- Beer, Sir Gavin Rylands de, (1899-1972), Knight, embryologist
- Bell, Alfred Redmayne, (1892-1925), Agriculturalist
- Bell, Francis Jeffrey, (1855-1924), Zoologist
- Bell, Thomas, (1792-1880), dental surgeon and zoologist
- Bell, Thomas Reid Davys, (1863-1948), Indian Forestry administrator
- Belt, Thomas, (1832-1878), Geologist
- Bennett, George, (1804-1893), naturalist and physician
- Benson, Constantine Walter, (1909-1982), ornithologist
- Benson, Robert Bernard, (1904-1967), Entomologist
- Bensted, William Horatio, (1802-1873), natural historian
- Berkeley, Miles Joseph, (1803-1889), Mycologist
- Bett, Walter Reginald, (b 1903), Medical Writer
- Bingley, William, (1774-1823), Anglican clergyman, topographer and miscellaneous writer
- Birch, Thomas, (1705-1766), historian, clergyman, Secretary of Royal Society
- Blackmore, William, (1826-1878), businessman, collector of American antiquities
- Blackwall, John, (1790-1881), Naturalist
- Blainville, Henri Marie Ducrotay, (1777-1850), Biologist
- Blair, Patrick, (1666-1728), Physician and Botanist
- Blanford, William Thomas, (1832-1905), zoologist and palaeontologist
- Bleeker, Pieter, (1819-1878), Ichthyologist
- Blok, Arthur, (1882-1974), Conchologist
- Bloom, James Harvey, (1860-1944), clergyman, antiquary and naturalist
- Bloxam, Andrew, (1801-1878), Rector of Harborough Naturalist Botanist
- Bocage, Jose Vicente Barboza du, (1823-1908), Naturalist
- Boll, Jacob, (1828-1880), Swiss naturalist and entomologist Switzerland
- Bolton, James, (d 1799), Naturalist
- Bond, Sir Edward Augustus, (1815-1898), Knight, Principal Librarian of the British Museum and historian
- Boratynski, Kajetan Ludwik, (1907-1980), entomologist
- Borrer, William, (1781-1862), botanist
- Boulenger, George Albert, (1858-1937), Marine Biologist
- Boulger, George Edward Simonds, (1853-1922), Botanist
- Bowdich, Thomas Edward, (1791-1824), African Traveller
- Bowerbank, James Scott, (1797-1877), geologist
- Bowes, Anthony John Lee, (1913-1942), Lepidopterist
- Bowie, James, (c1789-1869), Botanist
- Bowles, Edward Augustus, (1865-1954), Horticulturist
- Boycott, Arthur Edwin, (1877-1938), Pathologist and Naturalist
- Boyd, William Christopher, (d 1906), Entomologist
- Brady, Sir Antonio, (1811-1881), Knight Admiralty Official
- Brady, George Stewardson, (1832-1921), Natural Historian and Physician
- Brayley, Edward Wedlake, (1773-1854), Topographer and Archaeologist
- Brewer, Samuel, (1670-1743), Botanist
- Bridson, Gavin Douglas Ruthven, (b 1936), archivist
- Britten, James, (1846-1924), Botanist
- Broadley, Alexander Meyrick, (1847-1916), lawyer, journalist, historian and collector
- Broderip, William John, (1789-1859), Lawyer and Naturalist
- Brooke, Alan Francis, (1883-1963), 1st Viscount Alanbrooke, Field Marshal
- Brooke, Winifred May A, (1893-1975), Artist Botanist
- Brooks, Cecil Joslyn, (1875-1953), metallurgical chemist
- Broom, Robert, (1866-1951), palaeontologist and anthropologist
- Broome, Christopher Edmund, (1812-1886), Mycologist
- Brown, Edward Thomas, (1866-1937), marine biologist
- Brown, John, (1780-1859), geologist
- Brown, John Alexander Harvie-, (1844-1916), ornithologist
- Brown, Robert, (1773-1858), botanist
- Browne, Patrick, (? 1720-1790), naturalist
- Brutelle, Charles Louis L'Heritier de, (1746-1800), botanist
- Bryant, Gilbert, (1878-1965), Entomologist
- Buchanan, Francis Hamilton, (1762-1829), surgeon and botanist
- Buckell, Francis, (1818-1897), Physician and Botanist
- Buckland, Francis Trevelyan, (1826-1880), naturalist
- Buckland, William, (1784-1856), Dean of Westminster, geologist
- Buckler, William, (1814-1884), Entomologist
- Buckton, George Bowdler, (1818-1905), Entomologist
- Buller, Sir Walter Lawry, (1838-1906), Knight Ornithologist
- Burbidge, Frederick William Thomas, (1847-1905), Botanist
- Burr, Malcolm, (1878-1954), Writer and Translator
- Bury, George Wyman, (1874-1920), explorer and naturalist
- Busk, George, (1807-1886), scientist
- Butler, Arthur Gardiner, (1844-1925), Entomologist
- Buxton, Patrick Alfred, (1892-1955), entomologist
- Caley, George, (1770-1829), naturalist
- Cameron, Hector Charles, (1878-1958), physician
- Campbell, George Douglas, (1823-1900), 8th Duke of Argyll, statesman
- Cann, Johnson Robin, (b 1937), Geologist
- Carmichael, Dugald, (1772-1827), Captain Botanist
- Carpenter, Philip Herbert, (1852-1891), palaeontologist and zoologist
- Carpenter, William Benjamin, (1813-1885), naturalist
- Carroll, Isaac, (1828-1880), Lichenologist
- Carruthers, William, (1830-1922), Botanist
- Carter, Harold Burnell, (b 1910), Research Scientist
- Cernosvitov, Lev, (1902-1945), zoologist
- Chapin, James Paul, (1889-1964), American ornithologist
- Charlesworth, Edward, (1783-1853), naturalist
- Cheesman, Lucy Evelyn, (1881-1969), Entomologist traveller and writer
- Children, John George, (1777-1852), Scientist
- China, William Edward, (1895-1979), entomologist
- Christy, William Miller, (1863-1939), entomologist
- Church, Arthur Henry, (1865-1937), Botanist
- Claringbull, Sir Gordon Frank, (b 1911), Knight, mineralogist
- Clark, Sir Wilfred Edward Le Gros, (1895-1971), Knight Anatomist and Anthropologist
- Clarke, Edward Daniel, (1769-1822), traveller, antiquary and mineralogist
- Clift, William, (1775-1849), Naturalist
- Cocks, William Pennington, (1791-1878), Surgeon Naturalist
- Codrington, John, (1898-1991), Botanist
- Cole, William Willoughby, (1807-1886), 3rd Earl of Enniskillen
- Coleman, William Higgins, (1816-1863), Schoolmaster and Author
- Collenette, Cyril Leslie, (1888-1959), Entomologist
- Collier, Frank Simon, (1900-1964), Forester and Naturalist
- Collinson, Peter, (1694-1768), Naturalist Antiquary
- Colman, John Stacy, (1906-1978), marine biologist
- Cooke, Alfred Hands, (1854-1934), Zoologist
- Cope, Edward Drinker, (1840-1897), Paelentologist Evolutionist
- Corbet, Alexander Steven, (1897-1948), entomologist
- Cornes, Christopher D, (fl1980-2005), botanical photographer
- Couch, Jonathan, (1789-1870), naturalist
- Cowan, William Deans, (1844-1924), Missionary and Botanist
- Cox, Leslie Reginald, (1897-1965), Geologist
- Cracherode, Clayton Mordaunt, (1730-1799), Bibliophile Print Collector Numismatist
- Cranch, John, (1785-1816), marine biologist
- Crombie, James Morrison, (1833-1906), Botanist
- Crossland, Cyril, (1878-1943), marine biologist
- Cunningham, Allan, (1791-1839), botanist
- Curry, Dennis, (1912-2001), businessman, geologist and philanthropist Leicester, Leicestershire
- Curtis, John, (1791-1862), entomologist
- Cust, Mary Anne, (1800-1882), naturalist
- Cuvier, Georges Leopold, (1769-1832), Baron Anatomist
- Da Costa, Emanuel Mendes, (1717-1791), naturalist
- Dale, James Charles, (1791-1872), Entomologist
- Dale, Samuel, (1659-1739), Physician and Antiquary
- Dallas, William Sweetland, (1824-1890), Zoologist
- Dance, Stanley Peter, (b1932), naturalist
- Darby,, Michael Douglas, (b1944), coleopterist and author of Biographical Dictionary of British Coleopterists Northampton, Northamptonshire
- Darwin, Charles Robert, (1809-1882), naturalist
- Davidson, James, (1849-1925), Indian Civil Servant
- Davidson, Thomas, (1817-1885), palaeontologist
- Davies, Hugh, (1739-1821), Botanist
- Davies, Thomas, (1837-1892), Mineralogist
- Davis, Joseph Barnard, (1801-1881), craniologist
- Davis, Thomas Arthur Warren, (1899-1980), forester
- Dawson, Muriel Helen, (1897-1974), Artist
- Dawson, Warren Royal, (1888-1968), Egyptologist and antiquary
- Day, Francis, (1829-1889), Ichthyologist
- Deakin, Richard, (1808-1873), Physician and Botanist
- Derham, William, (1657-1735), Canon of Windsor Naturalist
- Deschamps, Louis, (1765-1842), French naturalist
- Deseglise, Pierre Alfred, (1823-1883), Botanist
- Deshayes, Gerard Paul, (1795-1875), conchologist
- Dilke, Sir John Fisher Wentworth, (1906-1999), 5th Baronet
- Dillenius, Johann Jakob, (1687-1747), Botanist
- Ditmas, Frederick, (1811-1876), Royal Engineer
- Dobson, George Edward, (1844-1895), Zoologist
- Dollman, Hereward, (1888-1919), Entomologist
- Dollman, John, (1851-1934), Author and Entomologist
- Douglas, Dunbar James, (1809-1885), 6th Earl of Selkirk
- Drewitt, Frederick George Dawtrey, (1848-1942), pathologist
- Drury, Dru, (1725-1803), Naturalist
- Dryander, Jonas, (1748-1810), Botanist
- Du Bois, Charles, (1656-1740), Treasurer of East India Co
- Dunn, Edward John, (1844-1937), Geologist
- Eaton, Alfred Edwin, (1844-1929), Vicar of Shepton Montague Entomologist
- Eaton, Mary Emily, (1873-1961), Botanical Artist
- Edmondston, Thomas, (1825-1846), naturalist
- Edmonston, Thomas, (1825-1846), botanist
- Egerton, Sir Philip de Malpas Grey, (1806-1881), 10th Baronet, MP, palaeontologist
- Ehret, Georg Dionysius, (1708-1770), Botanical Illustrator
- Eliot, Sir Charles Norton Edgecumbe, (1862-1931), Knight, diplomat and biologist
- Evans, Caleb, (1831-1886), geologist
- Evans, John William, (d 1930), geologist
- Ewan, Joseph Andorfer, (1909-1999), Botanist
- Fagan, Charles Edward, (1855-1921), Naturalist
- Falconer, Hugh, (1808-1865), botanist and palaeontologist
- Farquhar, Jane, (1724-1766), botanist
- Farquhar, William, (c 1771-1839), Major General
- Fassnidge, William, (1888-1949), Entomologist
- Feilden, Henry Wemyss, (1838-1921), Lieutenant Colonel Naturalist
- Firth, Robert Isaac, (1902-1982), palaeontologist
- Fischer, Jacob Benjamin, (1730-1793), Naturalist, Author
- Fisher, James Maxwell McConnell, (1912-1970), Ornithologist
- Fitton, William Henry, (1780-1861), geologist
- FitzRoy, Robert, (1805-1865), MP, Governor of New Zealand, Vice Admiral and meteorologist
- Fleming, John, (1747-1829), Physician and Botanist
- Fletcher, Sir Lazarus, (1854-1921), Knight, Knight Mineralogist
- Fletcher, Thomas Bainbrigge, (1878-1950), Entomologist
- Flett, Sir John Smith, (1869-1947), Knight, geologist Kirkwall, Orkney
- Flight, Walter, (1841-1885), Geologist
- Flower, Sir William Henry, (1831-1899), Knight Zoologist
- Forbes, Edward, (1815-1854), naturalist
- Forbes, Henry Ogg, (1851-1932), botanist
- Forster, Edward, (1765-1849), botanist
- Forster, Johann Georg Adam, (1754-1794), naturalist
- Fowler, George Herbert, (1861-1940), zoologist, historian and archivist
- Fox, Avril, (1917-2015), entomologist Malaysia;South Africa
- Fox, Sir Cyril Sankey, (1886-1951), Knight, geologist
- Frankland, Sir Thomas, (1750-1831), 6th Baronet MP and Botanist
- Fraser, Frederick Charles, (1880-1963), entomologist
- Frey, Heinrich, (1822-1890), German-born Swiss entomologist Germany
- Frohawk, Frederick William, (1861-1946), Zoologist
- Gadd, Cyril John, (1893-1969), classical scholar
- Gadow, Hans Friedrich, (1855-1928), Zoologist
- Gallant, Rene, (1906-1985), researcher into meteorite impacts
- Garden, Alexander, (1730-1791), botanist
- Gardiner, Sir Alan Henderson, (1879-1963), Knight, Egyptologist
- Gardiner, John Stanley, (1872-1946), zoologist
- Garstang, Walter, (1868-1949), zoologist
- Geikie, James, (1839-1915), geologist
- George, Wilma Beryl, (1918-1989), Zoologist
- Gepp, Anthony, (1862-1955), Botanist
- Gibson, Robert John Harvey-, (1860-1929), botanist
- Gilbert, Lionel Felix, (1893-1955), Chemist
- Gilmour, John Scott Lennox, (1906-1986), botanist
- Glaessner, Martin Fritz, (1906-1989), palaeontologist
- Godman, Frederick Ducane, (1834-1919), Zoologist
- Godwin-Austen, Henry Haversham, (1834-1923), Naturalist
- Good, Peter, (d 1803), Botanist
- Gosse, Philip Henry, (1810-1888), zoologist
- Gould, John, (1804-1881), ornithologist
- Graham, Alastair, (1906-2000), zoologist and malacologist Edinburgh, Midlothian
- Gray, Elizabeth, (1831-1924), Geologist
- Gray, George Robert, (1808-1872), Zoologist
- Gray, John Edward, (1800-1875), naturalist
- Gray, Samuel Frederick, (1766-1828), Chemist Botanist
- Gregory, John Walter, (1864-1932), geologist
- Gregory, William, (1803-1858), Chemist
- Greville, Robert Kaye, (1794-1866), botanist
- Grey, Thomas de, (1843-1919), 6th Baron Walsingham, zoologist
- Gronovius, Lorenz Theodor, (c 1730-1778), Ichthyologist
- Grove, William Bywater, (1848-1938), Botanist
- Guichard, Kenneth MacKinnon, (1914-2002), Entomologist
- Gunther, Albert Carl Ludwig Gotthilf, (1830-1914), Zoologist
- Gunther, Albert Everard, (1903-1997), Writer
- Gunther, Robert William Theodore, (1869-1940), Zoologist and Antiquary
- Guppy, Henry Brougham, (1854-1926), Botanist
- Gurney, John Henry, (1819-1890), MP, banker and ornithologist
- Gurney, John Henry, (1848-1922), ornithologist
- Gurney, Robert, (1879-1950), antiquary
- Hall, Leslie Beeching, (1878-1945), Botanist
- Hamilton, Gerald Edwin Hamilton Barrett-, (1871-1914), zoologist and traveller India;County Wexford;London;South Georgia
- Hampson, Sir George Francis, (1860-1936), 10th Baronet Entomologist
- Hance, Henry Fletcher, (1827-1886), Botanist
- Hancock, Albany, (1806-1873), Zoologist
- Hardwicke, Thomas, (1757-1835), Major General, naturalist
- Harmer, Frederic William, (1835-1923), Palaeontologist
- Harmer, Sir Sidney Frederic, (1862-1950), Knight, zoologist
- Harris, Thomas Maxwell, (1903-1983), botanist
- Hartert, Ernst, (1859-1933), Zoologist
- Hawkins, Ellen, (d 1864), Botanist
- Hawkins, John, (1761-1841), author traveller botanist geologist
- Hawkins, Thomas, (1810-1889), geologist
- Heath, John, (1922-1987), entomologist Worcester, Worcestershire
- Hector, Sir James, (1834-1907), Knight, geologist
- Hemingway, John Edwin, (1908-1997), geologist
- Hemming, Arthur Francis, (1893-1964), Civil Servant and entomologist, lepidopterist London
- Henrey, Blanche, (1906-1983), Botanist
- Henslow, George, (1835-1925), Botanist
- Henslow, John Stevens, (1796-1861), botanist and Church of England clergyman
- Heron-Allen, Edward, (1861-1943), zoologist
- Herschel, Sir John Frederick William, (1792-1871), 1st Baronet, astronomer
- Heuland, Christian, (fl 1780), Mineralogist
- Hibbert-Ware, Samuel, (1782-1848), antiquary and geologist
- Hiern, William Philip, (1839-1925), Botanist and Mathematician
- Hill, Sir James William Francis, (1899-1980), Knight Solicitor Historian
- Hincks, Thomas, (1818-1899), Unitarian minister, zoologist
- Hinds, Richard Brinsley, (c 1812-1847), Naturalist
- Hinton, Martin Alister Campbell, (1883-1961), Zoologist London
- Hodgson, Brian Houghton, (1800-1894), Indian Civil Servant Naturalist
- Holdsworth, Brian Keith, (1936-2007), palaeontologist Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire
- Holmes, Derek Anthony, (1938-2000), Ornithologist
- Home, Sir Everard, (1756-1832), 1st Baronet Surgeon
- Hooker, Sir Joseph Dalton, (1817-1911), Knight, botanist, explorer, Director of Kew Gardens
- Hooker, Sir William Jackson, (1785-1865), Knight, botanist Norwich, Norfolk
- Horsfield, Thomas, (1773-1859), Naturalist
- Hose, Charles, (1863-1929), Zoologist
- Houstoun, William, (1695-1733), Surgeon and Botanist
- Howard, John Eliot, (1807-1883), Botanist
- Howes, Thomas George Bond, (1853-1905), zoologist
- Hubner, Jacob, (1761-1826), Entomologist
- Hudson, Robert George Spencer, (1895-1965), geologist
- Hume, Allan Octavian, (1829-1912), Indian civil servant and ornithologist
- Hunt, J Michael Chalmers-, (b 1920), entomologist
- Hunt, Robert, (1807-1887), Scientific Writer
- Hunter, John, (1728-1793), Anatomist and Surgeon
- Hutton, William, (1798-1860), Geologist
- Huxley, Sir Julian Sorell, (1887-1975), Knight, zoologist and philosopher
- Huxley, Thomas Henry, (1825-1895), Scientist
- Ibbetson, Agnes, (1757-1823), botanist
- Jackson, Sir Frederick John, (1860-1929), Knight Explorer Naturalist and Administrator
- Jackson, John Wilfrid, (fl 1910-1958), geologist and palaeontologist
- Jacobs, Stanley Norman Aflalo, (1896-1989), entomologist
- Jacquin, Nicolas Joseph von, (1727-1817), German scientist
- Jardine, Sir William, (1800-1874), 7th Baronet Naturalist
- Jeffreys, John Gwyn, (1809-1885), Conchologist
- Johnson, Christopher, (1782-1866), Botanist
- Johnston, George, (1797-1855), naturalist
- Jones, John Winter, (1805-1881), Principal Librarian of the British Museum
- Jones, Thomas Rupert, (1819-1911), geologist
- Jordan, Heinrich Ernst Karl, (1861-1959), zoologist
- Jukes, Joseph Beete, (1811-1869), geologist
- Kelaart, Edward Frederick, (c 1818-1860), Botanist
- Kerr, James, (1738-1782), Surgeon and Botanist
- Kerr, William, (d 1814), Botanist
- Kingsley, Mary Henrietta, (1862-1900), traveller and writer
- Kinnear, Sir Norman Boyd, (1882-1957), Knight, ornithologist
- Kirby, William, (1759-1850), Rector of Barham Entomologist
- Knight, Thomas Andrew, (1759-1838), Plant Physiologist
- Knowlton, Thomas, (1692-1782), Botanist
- Konig, Charles Dietrich Eberhard, (1774-1851), mineralogist
- Konig, Johan Gerhard, (1728-1785), Missionary Physician and Botanist
- Lacaita, Charles Carmichael, (1853-1933), MP Botanist
- Laishley, Richard, (1815-1897), Priest Painter Naturalist
- Lambert, Aylmer Bourke, (1761-1842), Botanist
- Lambert, Frank J, (fl 1920-1958), naturalist
- Lang, William Dickson, (1878-1966), Geologist and Entomologist
- Lankester, Sir Edwin Ray, (1847-1929), Knight, zoologist
- Latham, John, (1740-1837), ornithologist
- Layard, Sir Austen Henry, (1817-1894), Knight, politician, diplomat and archaeologist
- Layard, Edgar Leopold, (1824-1900), Colonial Administrator
- Leach, William Elford, (1790-1836), Naturalist
- Leakey, Louis Seymour Bazett, (1903-1972), anthropologist
- Lee, Ann, (1753-1790), Botanist
- Lefanu, William Richard, (1904-1996), librarian of the Royal College of Surgeons
- Lewin, John William, (c 1770-1819), Naturalist
- Lewis, William James, (1847-1926), Mineralogist
- Lhuyd, Edward, (1660-1709), Naturalist and Antiquary
- Lightfoot, John, (1735-1788), Naturalist
- Lind, James, (1736-1812), Physician and Astronomer
- Lindley, John, (1799-1865), botanist
- Linnaeus, Carl, (1707-1778), Naturalist
- Linton, Edward Francis, (1848-1928), Rector of Edmondsham, botanist
- Lister, Gulielma, (1860-1949), Naturalist
- Lister, Joseph Jackson, (1857-1927), Zoologist
- Lister, Martin, (1638-1712), zoologist
- Lloyd, William Alford, (1815-1880), aquarium director
- Loddiges, George, (1784-1846), Nurseryman and Horticulturist
- Loder, Gerald Walter Erskine, (1861-1936), 1st Baron Wakehurst
- Lonsdale, William, (1794-1871), geologist
- Loten, Joan Gideon, (1710-1789), Dutch Governor of Ceylon, Naturalist
- Loudon, John Claudius, (1783-1843), landscape gardener and horticultural writer
- Lowe, Percy Roycroft, (1870-1948), ornithologist
- Lowe, Richard Thomas, (1802-1874), botanist
- Lowry, Charles Gibson, (1880-1951), gynaecologist
- Luc, Jean Andre de, (1727-1817), geologist and meteorologist
- Lucas, William John, (1858-1932), Entomologist
- Ludlow, Frank, (1885-1972), botanist, Indian civil servant
- Lyell, Charles, (1767-1849), botanist and student of Dante
- Lyell, Sir Charles, (1797-1875), 1st Baronet, geologist
- Lynes, Hubert, (1874-1942), Rear Admiral ornithologist
- MacGillivray, John, (1822-1867), naturalist
- MacGillivray, William, (1796-1852), naturalist
- Mackinder, Sir Halford John, (1861-1947), Knight, Knight MP Geographer
- MacNulty, Basil Joseph, (1915-1994), entomologist
- Maconachie, Sir Richard Roy, (1885-1962), Knight Indian Civil Servant
- Maconochie, Alexander, (1787-1860), Governor of Norfolk Island
- Madoc, Guy Charles, (1911-1999), ornithologist
- Malie, Thomas, (d 1789), army surgeon
- Manning, Thomas, (1772-1840), traveller and botanist
- Mantell, Gideon Algernon, (1790-1852), geologist
- Marrat, Frederick Price, (1820-1904), botanist
- Marsh, Thomas Orlebar, (1749-1831), vicar, antiquary and naturalist
- Marshall, Alexander, (c1639-1682), botanist
- Martens, Conrad, (1801-1878), Anglo Australian Painter
- Martens, Edwin Carl von, (1831-1904), malacologist museum curator
- Martyn, John, (1699-1768), Botanist
- Martyn, Thomas, (1735-1825), botanist
- Massee, George Edward, (1850-1917), Mycologist
- Masson, Francis, (1741-1805), Gardener and Botanist
- Mathews, Andrew, (d 1841), Horticulturist
- Mattingly, Peter Frederick, (1914-1993), taxonomist
- Maty, Matthew, (1717-1776), Physician Writer Principal Librarian of the British Museum
- Mawe, John, (1764-1829), Zoologist Mineralogist
- Mcintosh, William Carmichael, (1838-1931), zoologist
- McLachlan, Robert, (1837-1904), Entomologist
- McMillan, Nora Fisher, (1908-2003), naturalist
- Meade-Waldo, Edmund Gustavus Bloomfield, (1855-1934), Naturalist
- Medlycott, Sir William Coles Paget, (1831-1887), 3rd Baronet Naturalist
- Meinertzhagen, Richard, (1878-1967), colonial administrator ornithologist
- Melville, Richard Valentine, (1914-1993), naturalist
- Menzies, Archibald, (1754-1842), Surgeon and Botanist
- Meyrick, Edward, (1854-1938), Entomologist
- Miers, Sir Henry Alexander, (1858-1942), Knight, mineralogist
- Miers, John, (1789-1879), Engineer and Botanist
- Miller, John Frederick, (fl 1770-1790), botanist
- Millett, Fortescue William, (1833-1915), foraminiferologist and palaeontologist Malaysia;Cornwall
- Mitchell, David William, (1814-1859), Zoologist
- Mitchell, James, (c 1786-1844), Scientific Writer Antiquary
- Mivart, St George Jackson, (1827-1900), Biologist
- Montagu, George, (1755-1815), Naturalist
- Montin, Lars, (1722-1785), Naturalist
- Moon, Alexander, (d1825), horticulturist
- Moore, Charles, (1815-1882), Geologist
- Morch, Otto Andreas Lowson, (1828-1878), Conchologist
- Morley, Claude, (1874-1951), entomologist and antiquary
- Moseley, Harriet, (fl 1836-1867), Botanist
- Moseley, Henry Nottidge, (1844-1891), Naturalist
- Munford, George, (1795-1871), Vicar of East Winch Botanist Antiquary
- Murchison, Sir Roderick Impey, (1792-1871), 1st Baronet geologist
- Murray, Andrew, (1812-1878), Naturalist
- Murray, George Robert Milne, (1858-1911), Botanist
- Murray, Sir John, (1841-1914), Knight, naturalist and oceanographer
- Newbould, William Williamson, (1819-1886), Topographer and Botanist
- Newman, Edward, (1801-1876), Botanist
- Newton, Alfred, (1829-1907), zoologist
- Newton, Sir Edward, (1832-1897), Knight Colonial Administrator Zoologist
- Nightingale, Tom, (fl 1969-1997), ornithologist
- Nodder, Frederick Polydore, (fl 1767-1800), Botanist
- Norman, Alfred Merle, (1831-1918), clergyman and zoologist
- Norman, John Roxborough, (1898-1944), zoologist
- Oakley, Kenneth Page, (1911-1981), Anthropologist and Geologist
- Oates, Eugene William, (1845-1911), ornithologist
- Ogilvie-Grant, William Robert, (1863-1924), zoologist
- Orde Brown, Sir Granville St John, (1883-1947), Knight, colonial and administrator
- Orde-Powlett, William Thomas, (1845-1922), 4th Baron Bolton
- Oswald, Felix, (1866-1958), classicist and geologist
- Owen, Sir Richard, (1804-1892), Knight, comparative anatomist and palaeontologist
- Padman, Isaac, (fl 1740-1800), Entomologist
- Pagden, H T, (b1910), entomologist
- Pallas, Peter Simon, (1741-1811), Naturalist and Traveller
- Palmer, Mervyn Grove, (1882-1955), entomologist
- Panizzi, Sir Anthony, (1797-1879), Knight, Knight Principal Librarian of the British Museum
- Parish, Sir Woodbine, (1796-1882), Knight, Knight Diplomat
- Park, Mungo, (1771-1806), African explorer
- Parker, William Kitchen, (1823-1890), anatomist
- Parkinson, Sydney, (1745-1771), Botanist
- Paterson, William, (1755-1810), Traveller and Lieutenant Governor of New South Wales
- Patterson, Robert Hogarth, (1821-1886), Journalist and Writer
- Peach, Charles William, (1800-1886), geologist
- Pengelly, William, (1812-1894), geologist
- Pennant, Thomas, (1726-1798), naturalist, traveller and topographer
- Pentland, Joseph Barclay, (1797-1873), traveller
- Perceval, Spencer George, (1838-1922), Antiquary and Geologist
- Percival, Arthur Blayney, (1875-1941), Ranger
- Petch, Thomas, (1870-1948), Mycologist
- Petiver, James, (1663-1718), Botanist and Entomologist
- Philippi, Rudolfo Amando, (1808-1904), Taxonomist Ecologist
- Phillips, John, (1800-1874), geologist
- Phillips, William, (1822-1905), Mycologist and Antiquary
- Piele, Alfred James, (1868-1948), Malacologist
- Pilgrim, Henry Guy Ellcock, (1875-1943), Palaeontologist
- Pilkington, William, (1758-1848), Architect and Botanist
- Pitman, Charles Robert Senhouse, (1890-1975), colonial administrator ornithologist
- Pitt, Frances, (1888-1964), Writer Lecturer Naturalist
- Plant, John, (1819-1894), Naturalist
- Platnauer, Henry Maurice, (1857-1939), Geologist
- Playfair, Lyon, (1818-1898), 1st Baron Playfair of St Andrews, chemist
- Playfair, Sir Robert Lambert, (1828-1899), Knight, author and colonial administrator
- Plukenet, Leonard, (1642-1706), Botanist
- Plumier, Charles, (1646-1706), Botanist
- Pocock, Reginald I, (1863-1947), Zoologist
- Popham, Hugh Francis Arthur Leybourne, (1864-1943), ornithologist
- Porritt, George, (1848-1927), naturalist
- Powers, Rosemary, (b 1931), anthropologist
- Powys, Thomas Littleton, (1833-1896), 4th Baron Lilford, ornithologist
- Pratt, Anne, (1806-1893), writer and artist
- Prior, George Thurland, (1862-1936), Mineralogist
- Prout, Louis Beethoven, (1864-1943), Entomologist and Musicologist
- Pulteney, Richard, (1730-1801), Botanist
- Purton, Thomas, (1768-1833), Surgeon and Mycologist
- Pycraft, William Plane, (1868 - 1942), osteologist and Natural History Museum staff
- Quaritch, Bernard, (1819-1899), bookseller
- Rapp, Wilhelm Ludwig von, (1794-1868), physician naturalist
- Rashleigh, Philip, (1729-1811), MP, antiquary
- Ray, John, (1627-1705), Naturalist
- Reade, Hester Carter, (c1785-1874), naturalist
- Rees, William James, (1913-1967), naturalist
- Reeve, Lovell Augustus, (1814-1865), conchologist
- Reeves, John, (1774-1856), naturalist
- Regan, Charles Tate, (1878-1943), Zoologist
- Reid, Clement, (d 1916), geologist
- Relhan, Richard, (1754-1823), Botanist and Editor of Tacitus
- Rendle, Alfred Barton, (1865-1938), botanist
- Reynolds-Moreton, Henry John, (1827-1921), 3rd Earl of Ducie
- Richardson, Sir John, (1787-1865), Knight, surgeon, Arctic explorer and naturalist
- Richardson, Richard, (1663-1741), botanist
- Ridewood, Walter George, (1864-1921), biologist
- Robert, Nicholas, (1614-1685), Naturalist
- Roberts, Michael, (b 1945), Natural history author and illustrator
- Robertson, David, (1806-1896), Naturalist
- Robinson, Pamela Lamplugh, (1919-1994), Geologist and Vertebrate Palaeontologist
- Robinson, Sir Tancred, (d 1748), Knight Physician and Naturalist
- Roebuck, William Denison, (1851-1919), Naturalist
- Rolleston, George, (1829-1881), physician, zoologist and archaeologist
- Romanes, George John, (1848-1894), scientist
- Roper, Freeman Clarke Samuel, (1819-1896), Botanist
- Rosevear, Donovan Reginald, (1900-1986), zoologist
- Ross, Robert, (1912-2005), Keeper of Botany
- Rothschild, Lionel Walter, (1868-1937), 2nd Baron Rothschild
- Rothschild, Nathaniel Charles, (1877-1923), entomologist
- Round, Frank Harold, (1879-1958), Botanist
- Rowe, Arthur Walton, (1858-1926), Palaeontologist
- Roxburgh, William, (1751-1815), botanist
- Rue, Warren de la, (1815-1889), chemist and astronomer
- Russell, Anna, (1807-1876), botanist
- Russell, Sir Frederick Stratten, (1897-1984), Knight, marine biologist
- Rylands, Thomas Glazebrook, (1818-1900), Botanist
- Sabine, Sir Edward, (1788-1883), Knight, General, geophysicist
- Salisbury, Richard Anthony, (1761-1829), Botanist
- Salt, Jonathan, (1759-1815), Botanist
- Salter, John William, (1820-1869), geologist
- Salvin, Osbert, (1835-1898), Naturalist
- Saundby, Sir Robert Henry Magnus Spencer, (1896-1971), Knight Air Marshal
- Saunders, David, (b 1937), ornithologist and local historian
- Saunders, Edward, (1848-1910), Entomologist
- Saunders, William Wilson, (1809-1879), entomologist
- Savage, Spencer, (1886-1966), Botanist
- Scheuchzer, Johann Jacob, (1673-1733), Physician Naturalist and Historian
- Schomburgk, Sir Robert Hermann, (1804-1865), Knight, botanist
- Sclater, Philip Lutley, (1829-1913), zoologist
- Scott, Hugh, (1885-1960), entomologist
- Scott, Thomas, (1840-1929), zoologist
- Sedgwick, Adam, (1785-1873), geologist
- Seebohm, Henry, (1832-1895), ornithologist
- Seeley, Harry Govier, (1839-1909), geologist and palaeontologist
- Seward, Sir Albert Charles, (1863-1941), Knight, botanist and geologist
- Sewell, Robert Beresford Seymour, (1880-1964), Lieutenant Colonel Zoologist
- Sharp, David, (1840-1922), Entomologist
- Sharpe, Richard Bowdler, (1847-1909), ornithologist
- Sharpey, William, (1802-1880), physiologist
- Shaw, George, (1751-1813), botanist
- Sheals, John Gordon, (1923-1989), Keeper of Zoology
- Sheppard, George, (d 1965), geologist
- Sheppard, Thomas, (1876-1943), Museum Director, geologist, archaeologist and historian
- Sherard, William, (1659-1728), Botanist
- Sherborn, Charles Davies, (1861-1942), Naturalist
- Sibree, James, (1836-1929), architect, missionary and naturalist
- Sich, Alfred, (d 1943), Entomologist
- Sidnie Milana, Manton, (1902-1979), zoologist
- Simpson, Martin, (1799-1892), geologist
- Simpson, Norman Douglas, (1890-1974), botanist
- Sims, John, (1749-1831), Physician and Botanist
- Sinel, Joseph, (1844-1929), Taxidermist
- Skelton, Raleigh Ashlin, (1906-1970), Cartography Historian
- Slater, Henry Horrocks, (1851-1934), Rector of Thornhaugh with Winsford, entomologist and botanist
- Sloane, Sir Hans, (1660-1753), Knight Physician Naturalist Collector of MSS and Books
- Smit, Franciscus, (1920-2000), Dutch Entomologist
- Smith, Christopher, (d 1807), botanist
- Smith, Edgar Albert, (1847-1916), Assistant Keeper, Natural History Museum
- Smith, Edward, (1839-1919), bibliographer, antiquarian writer
- Smith, Frederick, (1805-1879), entomologist
- Smith, George Frederick Herbert, (1872-1953), mineralogist
- Smith, Gerard Edwards, (1804-1881), vicar of Osmaston and botanist
- Smith, Sir James Edward, (1759-1828), Knight, botanist
- Smith, Joshua Toulmin, (1816-1869), publicist and lawyer
- Smith, Walter Campbell, (1887-1988), geologist
- Smith, William, (1769-1839), geologist and engineer
- Smith, Worthington George, (1835-1917), mycologist and antiquary
- Snow, Barbara Kathleen, (d 2007), ornithologist Lundy Island, Devon
- Solander, Daniel Carlsson, (1736-1782), Botanist
- South, Richard, (1846-1932), Entomologist
- Sowerby, George Brettingham, (1788-1854), Geologist
- Sowerby, George Brettingham, (1812-1884), geologist
- Sowerby, James, (1757-1822), naturalist
- Sowerby, James de Carle, (1787-1871), naturalist and artist
- Sowerby, William, (1827-1906), Artist Botanist
- Spencer, Leonard James, (1870-1959), Mineralogist
- Stainton, Henry Tibbats, (1822-1892), Entomologist
- Stebbing, Thomas Roscoe Rede, (1835-1926), Naturalist
- Stelfox, Arthur Wilson, (1883-1972), Architect and Botanist
- Stephens, James Francis, (1792-1852), entomologist
- Stephens, William, (d 1760), Chemist and Botanist
- Stokes, Sir George Gabriel, (1819-1903), 1st Baronet, mathematician and physicist
- Stone, Sarah, (c 1761-1844), Artist
- Story-Maskelyne, Mervyn Herbert Nevil, (1823-1911), MP, mineralogist
- Strachey, Sir Richard, (1817-1908), Knight, Lieutenant General, consulting engineer
- Strickland, Hugh Edwin, (1811-1853), geologist and zoologist
- Stutchbury, Samuel, (1798-1859), Naturalist Geologist
- Suhm, Rudolph von Willemoes-, (1847-1875), naturalist
- Swainson, Isaac, (1746-1812), Botanist
- Sykes, William Henry, (1790-1872), MP, naturalist, army officer and author
- Sylvester-Bradley, Peter Colley, (1913-1978), Geologist
- Symons, George James, (1838-1900), meteorologist
- Tait, William Chaster, (1844-1928), ornithologist
- Tams, Willie Horace Thomas, (1891-1980), Naturalist
- Tandy, Geoffrey, (1900-1969), Botanist
- Tansley, Sir Arthur George, (1871-1955), Knight, plant ecologist London
- Taylor, Alfred Swaine, (1806-1880), physician and forensic scientist Northfleet, Kent
- Taylor, John T, (1840-1908), Museum Assistant
- Taylor, John William, (1845-1931), Conchologist
- Taylor, Richard, (1781-1858), Printer and Naturalist
- Taylor, Simon, (1742-c 1796), Botanist
- Templeton, John, (1766-1825), botanist
- Thiselton-Dyer, Sir William Turner, (1843-1928), Knight, botanist
- Thomas, Harold Beken, (1888-1971), colonial administrator and historian
- Thompson, Arthur Robert, (1890-1939), tax inspector and naturalist
- Thompson, William, (1805-1852), Naturalist
- Thunberg, Carl Peter, (1743-1828), Botanist
- Ticehurst, Claude Buchanan, (1881-1941), ornithologist
- Tickell, Samuel, (d 1875), Naturalist
- Tilli, Michael Angelo, (1655-1740), Italian botanist
- Tomlin, John Read Le Brockton, (1864-1954), zoologist
- Tonge, Olivia Frances, (1858-1949), Painter
- Tournefort, Joseph Pitton de, (1656-1708), botanist
- Townsend, Alexander Cockburn, (1905-1964), librarian
- Towse, John Wrench, (1848-1929), Fisheries Committee
- Trimen, Henry, (1843-1896), Botanist
- Troschel, Franz Hermann (Fritz), (1810-1882), Malacologist
- Trueman, Edwin Royden, (b 1922), Zoologist
- Turner, Dawson, (1775-1858), banker, botanist, art collector and antiquary Great Yarmouth, Norfolk
- Tylor, Sir Edward Burnett, (1832-1917), Knight Anthropologist
- Underwood, Edgar Ashworth, (1899-1980), Medical Historian
- Valenciennes, Achille, (1794-1865), Ichthyologist
- Van Voorst, John, (1804-1898), publisher
- Vanderbyl, Philip Breda, (1867-1930), traveller and big game hunter
- Verdcourt, Bernard, (b 1925), naturalist
- Verrall, George Henry, (1848-1911), entomologist
- Vincent, Alfred William, (1904-2000), ornithologist
- Vincent, Jack, (1904-1999), Ornithologist
- Walcott, John, (c1750-1831), naturalist
- Walker, John Fortune, (1839-1907), geologist
- Wallace, Alfred Russel, (1823-1913), naturalist
- Wallich, George Charles, (1815-1899), Naturalist
- Waterhouse, Alfred, (1830-1905), architect
- Waterhouse, Charles Owen, (1843-1917), Entomologist
- Waterhouse, George Robert, (1810-1888), naturalist
- Waterton, Charles, (1782-1865), naturalist
- Watling, Thomas, (1762-1806), Naturalist
- Watson, Hewett Cottrell, (1804-1881), Botanist
- Watson, White, (1760-1835), geologist
- Webber, John, (c 1750-1793), Draughtsman
- Welch, Robert, (1859-1936), geologist
- Welwitsch, Friedrich Martin Josef, (1806-1872), German botanist
- Westwood, John Obadiah, (1805-1893), Entomologist Antiquary
- Wheeler, Edwin, (1833-1909), Naturalist
- Wheeler, John Francis George, (1900-1979), Marine Biologist
- Whistler, Hugh, (1889-1943), ornithologist
- White, Errol Ivor, (1901-1985), geologist
- White, Francis Buchanan-, (1842-1894), entomologist
- White, Walter, (1811-1893), librarian of the Royal Society and author
- Whitehead, Peter James Palmer, (1930-1992), scientist, artist and writer
- Whymper, Edward, (1840-1911), wood engraver and mountaineer
- Wigg, Lilly, (1749-1829), botanist
- Wight, Robert, (1796-1872), Surgeon and Botanist
- Wild, John James, (fl 1875), Artist
- Wilkins, Sir George Hubert, (1888-1958), Knight Explorer
- Williams, Frederick Newton, (1862-1923), physician and botanist
- Williams, Harold Beck, (1889-1969), solicitor and entomologist
- Williamson, George Scott, (1883-1953), physician
- Wilmott, Alfred James, (1888-1950), Botanist
- Wilson, Alexander, (1766-1813), ornithologist
- Wilson, Edward Adrian, (1872-1912), naturalist and Antarctic explorer
- Wilson, William, (1799-1871), botanist
- Wiltshire, Edward P, (1910-2004), amateur entomologist
- Winch, Nathaniel John, (? 1769-1838), Botanist
- Winckworth, Ronald, (1884-1950), Malacologist
- Wintle, William James, (1861-1934), Journalist Naturalist
- Winton, William Edward de, (1856-1922), zoologist
- Wollaston, Alexander Fredrick Richmond, (1875-1930), naval surgeon and explorer
- Wood, Casey Albert, (1856-1942), ophthalmologist ornithologist
- Wood, Meta McKinnon, (fl 1928-1932), naturalist
- Wood, Searles Valentine, (1798-1880), geologist
- Woodward, Sir Arthur Smith, (1864-1944), Knight, Knight, palaeontologist
- Woodward, Bernard Barham, (1853-1930), Naturalist
- Woodward, Bernard Bolingbroke, (1816-1869), Historian Royal Librarian
- Woodward, Henry, (1832-1921), palaeontologist
- Woodward, John, (1665-1728), physician and geologist
- Woodward, Samuel, (1790-1838), geologist and antiquary
- Woodward, Samuel Pickworth, (1821-1865), naturalist
- Worthington, Edgar Barton, (1905-2001), biologist
- Wright, Charles Henry, (1864-1941), Botanist
- Wright, Christopher Amyas, (1928-1983), Taxonomist and Parasitologist
- Wright, Edward Perceval, (1834-1910), Naturalist
- Wright, Thomas, (1809-1884), physician and geologist
- Yalden, Thomas, (1750-1777), Botanist
- Yates, James, (1789-1871), Unitarian and Antiquary
- Yonge, Sir Charles Maurice, (1899-1986), Knight, marine biologist
- York, Frederick, (d 1903), photographer and magic lantern slide maker
- Young, William, (fl 1740-1780), Botanist
- Zaphiro, Photius Philip Constantine, (1877-1933), consular official
- Zeller, Philipp Christoph, (1808-1883), Entomologist
Diaries (8)
- Allan, Robert Sicily;Italy
- Carter, Tom Australia;Iceland
- Cockburn, Margaret Bushby Lascelles, (1829-1928), Artist India
- Littledale, H A P, (fl 1900-1955), major, antiquary and jeweller South Africa
- Mcconnel, F V, (fl 1894-1894), travel diarist Guyana
- Rattray, J
- Scott, Francis Burgess, (fl 1924-1936), lepidopterist
- Wright, Dick Vane-, (fl 1967-2004), Entomologist
Families (5)
- Brady family of Maryland Point Maryland Point, Essex;Stratford, Essex
- Knight family of Downton Castle Downton Castle, Herefordshire;Wormsley, Herefordshire
- Meade-Waldo family of Stonewall Park and Hever Stonewall Park, Kent;Chiddingstone, Kent;Hever, Kent;Glascwm, Radnorshire
- Rashleigh family of Menabilly Menabilly, Cornwall;St Austell, Cornwall;St Enoder, Cornwall;Fowey, Cornwall;St Keyne, Cornwall;Lanyon, Cornwall;Luxulyan, Cornwall;Probus, Cornwall;Tywardreath, Cornwall;Plymstock, Devon;Wickham, Hampshire;Lissadrone, County Mayo
- Strickland family of Apperley Court Apperley Court, Gloucestershire;Deerhurst, Gloucestershire;Leigh, Gloucestershire
Paper catalogues available to view at The National Archives - (19)
- NRA 39162 Thomas Belt, geologist: corresp link to online catalogue
- NRA 39163 Frank Simon Collier, forester and naturalist: diaries link to online catalogue
- NRA 39164 Charles Robert Darwin, naturalist: collected corresp link to online catalogue
- NRA 39173 Thomas Arthur Warren Davis, forester: diaries, corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 39174 Muriel Helen Dawson, artist: sketchbooks link to online catalogue
- NRA 39165 Warren Royal Dawson, egyptologist: corresp link to online catalogue
- NRA 39176 James Maxwell McConnell Fisher, ornithologist: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 39170 Edward Forbes, naturalist: notebooks link to online catalogue
- NRA 22952 RGS Hudson and others: Palaeontological Association papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 33249 Natural History Museum: Department of Botany
- NRA 32747 Natural History Museum: Department of Mineralogy
- NRA 32710 Natural History Museum: Department of Zoology
- NRA 39241 Natural History Museum: misc accessions
- NRA 33921 Natural History Museum: Trustees and Directorate papers
- NRA 39171 Donovan Reginald Rosevear, zoologist: papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 39238 Royal Society: Transit of Venus expedition, papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 39172 Charles Davies Sherborn, naturalist: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 39242 Sowerby family: corresp and papers rel to natural history link to online catalogue
- NRA 33766 Sir Charles Maurice Yonge, marine biologist: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
Accessions
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