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Born July 8, 1861 • Scotland
Died February 12, 1933 (aged 71) • England
James Hutton
James Hutton
Scottish geologist
John Muir
John Muir
Scottish-born American naturalist
Sir Robert Sibbald
Scottish physician and antiquarian
Davidson, Thomas
Thomas Davidson
Scottish paleontologist
Amos Eaton
American botanist, geologist, and lawyer
Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin
British naturalist
British naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace
Alfred Russel Wallace
British naturalist
Louis Agassiz
Louis Agassiz
Swiss-American scientist and educator
John Ray, detail of an oil painting; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
John Ray
English naturalist
Ferdinand Cohn
Ferdinand Cohn
German botanist
Conrad Gesner.
Conrad Gesner
Swiss physician and naturalist
Sloane, detail of an oil painting by S. Slaughter, 1736; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Sir Hans Sloane, Baronet
British physician
John James Audubon
John James Audubon
American artist
Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire
French naturalist
Jeanne Villepreux-Power
French-born naturalist
Palissy ware
Bernard Palissy
French potter and scientist
Agassiz, Elizabeth Cabot
Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz
American educator and naturalist
Swammerdam, Jan
Jan Swammerdam
Dutch naturalist
Whewell, plaster cast of bust by Edward Hodges Baily, 1851; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
William Whewell
British philosopher and historian
Roy Chapman Andrews
Roy Chapman Andrews
American naturalist