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Lyell, Sir Charles, 1797-1875 (1st Baronet | Scottish geologist) 430

Lyell, Lady Mary, 1808-1873 (nee Horner) 10

Horner, Leonard, 1785-1864 (Scottish merchant, geologist and educational reformer) 5

Owen, Richard, 1804-1892 (English biologist) 5

Darwin, Charles Robert, 1809-1882 (Naturalist) 4

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Bunbury, Sir Charles James Fox, 1809-1886 (8th Baronet of Barton Hall, Sussex (England) | English naturalist) 3

Falconer, Hugh, 1808-1865 (palaeontologist and botanist) 3

Hooker, Sir Joseph Dalton, 1817-1911 (British botanist, explorer | Director of the Royal Gardens, Kew) 3

Wallace, Alfred Russel, 1823-1913 (naturalist) 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

Aymard, Auguste, 1808-1889 (Prehistorian and Paleontologist) 2

Beck, Henrik Henriksen, 1799–1863 (Danish naturalist) 2

Binney, Edward William, 1812­-1881 (geologist and founder Manchester Geological Society) 2

Campbell, George John Douglas, 1823-1900 (8th and 1st Duke of Argyll, British polymath and Liberal statesman) 2

Carruthers, William, 1830-1922 (botanist, Keeper of the Department of Botany, British Museum) 2

Chantrey, Sir Francis Leggatt, 1781-1841 (Knight | English sculptor) 2

Clark, Joseph, 1834-1926 (English painter) 2

Croll, James, 1821-1890 (physical geologist and Keeper of Maps and Correspondence, Geological Survey of Scotland) 2

Davis, Henry Samuel, Major, fl January 1846 (British army officer and artist ) 2

Evans, Sir John, 1823-1908 (archaeologist and numismatist) 2

Geikie, Archibald, Sir, 28 December 1835 – 10 November 1924 (Professor of Geology, University of Edinburgh) 2

Guiscardi, William (Guillaume), fl 1860 (Italian volcanologist) 2

Haidinger, Wilhelm, 1795-1871 (Austrian mineralogist) 2

Hartung, Georg, 1821 - 1891 (German geologist) 2

Heer, Oswald, 1809-1883 (Swiss botanist, palaeontologist, entomologist | Professor of Botany, University of Zurich) 2

Howard, William George, 1808-1889 (8th Earl of Carlisle | English clergyman and peer) 2

James, Sir Henry, 1803-1877 (British Army Officer | Director-General of the Ordnance Survey) 2

Jeffreys, John Gwyn, 1809-1885 (British conchologist and malacologist) 2

Judd, John Wesley, 1840-1916 (British geologist) 2

Kean, Charles, 1811-1868 (British actor) 2

Lyell, Charles, 1767-1849 (Scottish botanist, translator of Dante) 2

Lyell, Katharine Murray, 1817-1915 (nee Horner) 2

Peach, Charles William, 30 September 1800 – 28 February 1886 (British naturalist and geologist) 2

Prestwich, Sir Joseph, 1812-1896 (British geologist and businessman, Fellow of the Royal Society) 2

Quekett, John Thomas , 11 August 1815 – 20 August 1861 (English microscopist and histologist) 2

Reid, William , Sir, 1791 – 1858 (Scottish military engineer, administrator and meteorologist) 2

Rogers, Henry Darwin, 1808-1866 (American geologist) 2

Somerville, Mary, 1780-1872 (scientific writer) 2

Sopwith, Thomas, 3 January 1803 – 16 January 1879 (English mining engineer, teacher of geology and local historian) 2

Spedding, Thomas Story, fl 1847-1865 (English J.P and writer) 2

Torell, Otto Martin, 1828 – 1900 (Swedish Naturalist and Geologist) 2

Williamson, William Crawford, 1816-1895 (professor of natural history and botany, Owens College, Manchester) 2

Winthrop, Robert Charles, 1809-1894 (American lawyer and philanthropist) 2

Woodward, Samuel Pickworth, 1821-1865 (English geologist and malacologist) 2

Abich, Herman, 1806 - 1886 (German mineralogist and geologist) 1

Adams, Andrew Leith, 1827-1882 (Scottish physician, naturalist and geologist) 1

Adler, Johan Gunder, 1784-1852 (Danish civil servant and a co-author of the Constitution of Norway) 1

Agassiz, Alexander, 1835-1910 (American naturalist and industrialist) 1

Ainger, Alfred, 1837-1904 (English biographer and critic) 1

Airlie, David Graham Drummond Ogilvy, Lord, 4 May 1826 – 25 September 1881 (Scottish peer and soldier.) 1

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

Archibald, Charles Dickson, 1802 - 1868 (Nova Scotia Lawyer, businessman and political figure) 1

Armstrong, William, 1810-1900 (1st Baron Armstrong | English industrialist) 1

Baines, Thomas , 27 November 1820 - 8 May 1875 (English artist and explorer of British colonial southern Africa and Australia.) 1

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

Barrett, Lucas, 1837-1862 (geologist and naturalist, correspondent of Charles Lyell) 1

Bates, Henry Walter, 8 February 1825- 16 February 1892 (English naturalist and explorer) 1

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

Beattie, William, 1793 – 1875 (Scottish physician and poet) 1

Beaumont, Gustave de, 1802-1866 (French magistrate, prison reformer, and traveller ) 1

Beckles, Samuel Husbands, 12 April 1814 - 4 September 1890 (Bajan/English lawyer and dinosaur hunter, Sussex and the Isle of Wight) 1

Bell, Marian, Lady, 1787 – 1876 (Amanuenis and biographer of husband Charles Bell) 1

Bent, George, fl 1849 (New Brunswick based, correspondent of Charles Lyell) 1

Berthelot, Sabin, 4 April 1794 – 10 November 1880 (French naturalist and ethnologist.) 1

Bertrand de Doue, Jacques-Mathieu, 1776 - 1862 (Geologist and first French member of the Geological Society of London, Vice-President of the Meteorological Society of France, Knight of the Legion of Honour) 1

Beyrich, Heinrich Ernst, 1815-1896 (German palaeontologist) 1

Binkhorst, J T, 1810-1876 (Geologist and Palaeontologist) 1

Birch, Samuel, 1813-1885 (British Egyptologist and antiquarian) 1

Bischof, Karl Gustav, 1792 – 1870 (German chemist) 1

Blackadder, William, 1782-1860 (Surveyor, Architect from Glamis, Forfarshire) 1

Blackmore, H.P., fl 1863 - 1867 (Correspondent of Charles Lyell) 1

Bonney, Thomas George, 1833-1923 (clergyman, mountaineer and geologist) 1

Borth, James, fl 1873 (Correspondent of Charles Lyell) 1

Bosquet, Joseph Augustin Hubert de, 1814 -1880 (Belgian paleontologist) 1

Boult, F., fl 1863 (Correspondent of Charles Lyell) 1

Bowerbank, James Scott, 1797-1877 (geologist and distiller) 1

Boxall, William, 1800-1879 (English painter and director of the National Gallery) 1

Brace, Charles Loring, 19 June 1826 - 11 August 1890 (American philanthropist) 1

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

Breda, Jacob Gijsbertus Samuël van, 24 October 1788 - 2 September 1867 (Dutch biologist and geologist) 1

Brickenden, Lambert, Captain, fl 1851-1853 (Correspondent of Charles Lyell) 1

Brodie, W.R., fl 1865-1868 (English fossil hunter, correspondent of Charles Lyell) 1

Brongniart, Alexandre, 1770-1847 (French mineralogist, geologist and naturalist) 1

Brown , Henry Handley, Reverend, 1813 - 1893 (English churchman, appointed to the Omata District, New Zealand. Father of Henry Brown, politician) 1

Brown, James, fl 1864 - 1868 (Correspondent of Charles Lyell) 1

Brown, John, fl 1840 (English archaeologist) 1

Brown, Richard, fl 1844-1855 (Geologist based at Sydney Mines, Nova Scotia) 1

Brown, Thomas, Reverend, 1811–1893 (Minister in the Free Church of Scotland, geologist and botanist) 1

Bryce, James, 1806-1877 (Irish mathematician, naturalist and geologist) 1

Buckley, Arabella Burton, 1840 – 1929 (Writer and Educator) 1

Buddle, John, 15 September 1773 – 10 October 1843 (English mining engineer and entrepreneur ) 1

Buist, George , 1805–1860 (Scottish journalist and scientist) 1

Bunbury, Edward Herbert, 1811 - 1895 ( English Barrister and a British Liberal Party politician ) 1

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

Bunsen, Robert, 30 March 1811 - 16 August 1899 (German chemist) 1

Burdett-Coutts, Angela Georgina, 1814-1906 (British philanthropist) 1

Burton, Decimus, 1800-1881 (English architect and urban designer) 1

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

Carpenter, William Benjamin, 1813-1885 (naturalist) 1

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