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Geikie, Archibald, Sir, 28 December 1835 – 10 November 1924 (Professor of Geology, University of Edinburgh) 57

MacMillan, Alexander, 1815-1896 (publisher) 28

Jukes, 1811-1869 (director of the Geological Survey of Ireland) 18

Yelverton, Emily M, fl1860 (widow of Edward Forbes) 15

Lyell, Sir Charles, 1797-1875 (1st Baronet | Scottish geologist) 12

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Ramsay, Sir Andrew Crombie, 1814-1891 (Scottish geologist) 12

Wilson, Jessie Aitken, fl.1860 (fiction writer, sister of George Wilson, wife of James Sime) 10

Darwin, Charles Robert, 1809-1882 (Naturalist) 8

Huxley, Thomas Henry, 1825-1895 (man of science) 7

Wilson, George, 1818-1859 (regius professor of technology, University of Edinburgh) 7

Godwin-Austen, Robert Alfred Cloyne, 1808-1884 (foreign secretary of the Geological Society) 6

Voorst, John Van, fl1863 (publisher) 6

Falconer, Hugh, 1808-1865 (palaeontologist and botanist) 5

Government School of Mines and of Science as Applied to the Arts (1851-) 5

Thomas Constable (1834-1850) 5

Owen, Richard, 1804-1892 (English biologist) 4

Paterson, Robert, 1802-1872 (president, Natural History Society of Belfast) 4

Sowerby, George Brettingham, 1788-1854 (British naturalist, conchologist and artist) 4

Bowerbank, James Scott, 1797-1877 (geologist and distiller) 3

Geological Survey of Great Britain (1835-:) 3

Agassiz, Jean Louis, 1807-1873 (Swiss-American naturalist and professor of natural history) 2

Archiac, Adolphe d', 1802-1868 (Vicomte d'Archiac | French geologist and palaeontologist) 2

Austed, DT (DT) 2

Baily, William Hellier, 1819-1888 (geologist and palaeontologist) 2

Balfour, John Hutton, 1808-1884 (professor of botany, University of Glasgow and University of Edinburgh) 2

Bunbury, Sir Charles James Fox, 1809-1886 (8th Baronet of Barton Hall, Sussex (England) | English naturalist) 2

Campbell, Peter Colin, 1810-1876 (first principal, University of Aberdeen) 2

Channing, William Ellery, 1780-1842 (American Unitarian preacher and theologian) 2

Day, George Edward, 1815-1872 (professor of anatomy and medicine, University of St. Andrews) 2

Edmonston & Douglas (fl1861) 2

Horner, Leonard, 1785-1864 (Scottish merchant, geologist and educational reformer) 2

Humboldt, Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von, 1769-1859 (German naturalist, geologist and explorer) 2

Linton, William James, 1812-1898 (engraver, poet and political reformer) 2

Lonsdale, William , 1794-1871 (Geologist and Paleontologist) 2

Lonsdale, William L, 1794-1871 (English geologist and palaeontologist) 2

Murchison, Sir Roderick Impey, 1792-1871 (1st Baronet | Scottish geologist) 2

Orbigny, Alcide Charles Victor Marie Dessalines d', 1802-1857 (French naturalist) 2

Pusey, Edward Bouverie, 1800-1882 (Anglican Cleric, Professor of Hebrew, Oxford) 2

Royal Society (c1645-:) (scientific society) 2

Story, Joseph, 1779-1845 (Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States) 2

Tennant, James, 1808-1881 (mineralogist) 2

Waterhouse, George Robert, 1810-1888 (naturalist) 2

Webster, Daniel, 1782-1852 (Lawyer and Statesman) 2

Wood, Searles Valentine, 1830-1884 (geologist) 2

Airy, Sir George Biddell, 1801-1892 (Astronomer Royal, 1835-1881) 1

Anthony, John Gould, 1804-1877 (American naturalist, mollusks) 1

Bache, Alexander Dallas, 1806-1867 (Physicist, Scientist and Surveyor) 1

Bancroft, George, 1800-1891 (American historian, statesman and Democratic politician) 1

Barrande, Joachim, 1799-1883 (Geologist and Paleontologist) 1

Bayfield, Henry Wolsey, Captain, 1795-1885 (British naval officer and surveyor) 1

Beche, Sir Henry Thomas, 1796-1855 (English geologist) 1

Bennett, John Hughes, 1812-1875 (professor of medicine, University of Edinburgh) 1

Binney, Edward William, 1812­-1881 (geologist and founder Manchester Geological Society) 1

Bravard, Auguste, 1803 - 1861 (Engineer and Palaeontologist) 1

Bristow, Henry William, 1817-1889 (geologist) 1

Brown, Robert, 1773-1858 (Botanist and paleobotanist) 1

Bunsen, Christian Charles Josias von, 1791-1860 (German diplomat and scholar) 1

Byron, Anne Isabella Noel, Baroness, 1792-1860 1

Carlyle, Thomas, 1795-1881 (historian, essayist and philosopher) 1

Carpenter, William Benjamin, 1813-1885. (English physician, invertebrate zoologist and physiologist) 1

Caswall, Edward, 1814-1878 (English clergyman and hymn writer) 1

Cautley, Proby Thomas, 1802-1871 (English engineer and palaeontologist) 1

Clark, Sir James, 1788-1870 (court physician) 1

Claudet, 1797-1867 (photographer) 1

Clay, Henry, 1777-1852 (America attorney and statemen) 1

Cogswell, Joseph, 1786-1871 (American librarian, bibliographer and educator) 1

Cotton, John , 1585-1652 (English clergyman, theologian of the Massachusetts Bay Colony) 1

Dana, James Dwight, 1813-1895 (American geologist, mineralogist, and naturalist) 1

Daubeny, Charles Giles Bridle, 1795-1867 (English chemist, botanist, and geologist) 1

Davis, John, 1787-1854 (American lawyer, businessman and politician ) 1

De la Beche, Thomas, 1796-1855 (English geologist, palaeontologist) 1

Dujardin, Felix, 1801-1860 (French biologist) 1

Elie de Beaumont, Leonce, 1798-1874 (French geologist) 1

Empson, William, 1791-1852 (English barrister, professor and journalist) 1

Everett, Edward, 1794-1865 (American politician, Unitarian pastor, educator, diplomat, and orator) 1

Faraday, Michael, 1791-1867 (English scientist) 1

Forbes, David, 1828-1876 (secretary to the Geological Society) 1

Forbes, Jane (mother of Edward Forbes) 1

Gallatin, Albert, 1761-1849 ( Genevan–American politician, diplomat, ethnologist and linguist.) 1

Gerville, Charles-Alexis-Adrien Duhérissier de, 1769-1853 (French antiquarian, historian, naturalist) 1

Gilbert, Ashurst Turner, 1786-1870 (English churchman, Principal of Brasenose College, and bishop of Chichester.) 1

Gordon-Lennox, Charles Henry, 6th Duke of Richmond and 1st Duke of Gordon 1

Grey, Charles Edward, Sir, 1785-1865 (English judge and colonial governor) 1

Grey-Egerton, Philip De Malpas, 1806-1881 (palaeontologist) 1

Hall, James (Sir James Hall of Dunglass), 1761-1832 (Scottish geologist and geophysicist | 4th Baronet) 1

Hall, James, 1811-1898 (American geologist and paleontologist) 1

Hallam, Henry, 1777-1859 (English historian) 1

Hammond, James Henry, 1807-1864 (American attorney, politician and planter) 1

Hearne, Samuel, 1745-1792 (English explorer, fur-trader, author, and naturalist) 1

Henry, Joseph, 1797-1878 (American scientist, Secretary of the Smithsonian) 1

Hitchcock, Edward, 1793-1864 (American scientist, educator and minister) 1

Hogarth, William, 1697-1764 (English painter, satirist, and writer) 1

Hooker, Sir Joseph Dalton, 1817-1911 (British botanist, explorer | Director of the Royal Gardens, Kew) 1

Hooker, William Jackson, Sir, 1785-1865 (professor of botany, University of Glasgow) 1

Horner, Joanna Baillie, b 1823 (Writer) 1

Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845 (7th President of the United States) 1

Jameson, Robert, 1774-1854 (geologist and professor of natural history, University of Edinburgh) 1

Kean, Charles, 1811-1868 (British actor) 1

Laughton, James Brotherstone (James Brotherstone) 1

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