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Born September 14, 1804 • Lyme Regis • England
Died February 3, 1881 (aged 76) • London • England
Notable Works “A Century of Birds from the Himalaya Mountains” • “Birds of Europe” • “Monograph of the Ramphastidae (Toucans)” • “The Birds of Australia”
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Johannes Müller
German physiologist
Alexander Wilson, detail of an engraving by W.H. Lizars
Alexander Wilson
Scottish ornithologist
Newton, Alfred
Alfred Newton
British zoologist
John James Audubon
John James Audubon
American artist
Magellanic penguin, left (Spheniscus magellanicus), and king shag (Phalacrocorax albiventer), watercolour and pencil by Roger Tory Peterson, from his book Penguins (1979); Houghton Mifflin
Roger Tory Peterson
American ornithologist
David Lambert Lack
British author and ornithologist
Elliott Coues
American ornithologist
Charles-Lucien Bonaparte, prince di Canino e di Musignano
French scientist
E.O. Wilson
E.O. Wilson
American biologist
Dana, James D.
James D. Dana
American geologist and mineralogist
Conrad Gesner.
Conrad Gesner
Swiss physician and naturalist
Hudson, W.H.
W.H. Hudson
British author, naturalist, and ornithologist
Baird, Spencer Fullerton
Spencer Fullerton Baird
American naturalist
William Morton Wheeler
American entomologist
Sir D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson
Scottish zoologist
Abraham Trembley
Swiss naturalist
Alexander Wetmore
American ornithologist
Libbie Henrietta Hyman
American zoologist
Frank M. Chapman
Frank M. Chapman
American ornithologist
Jack Miner
Canadian naturalist

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