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Lyell, Charles, Sir, 1797-1875

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Sir Charles Lyell, first baronet, (1797-1875, APS, 1842) was a geologist and lawyer, whose Principles of Geology explained “former changes of the earth’s surface” by means of “modern causes.” Critical of the “catastrophist” views of many contemporary geologists, Lyell considered the earth “a system of balanced antagonistic processes,” a theory later described as uniformitarian. Although he rejected Jean Baptiste Lamarck’s theory of species mutability early in his career, later he favorabl...

Hopkinson, Francis, 1737-1791

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Francis Hopkinson (October 2, 1737 [O.S. September 21, 1737] – May 9, 1791) was an American Founding Father, judge, author and composer. He designed Continental paper money and two early versions of flags, one for the United States and one for the United States Navy. He was a signer of the Declaration of Independence in July 1776 as a delegate from New Jersey. Born in Philadelphia, Province of Pennsylvania, British America, Hopkinson received an Artium Baccalaureus degree in 1757 from the Col...

Meteyard, Eliza, 1816-1879

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English author. From the description of Autograph letters signed (3) : London, to W.A. Turner, 1873 Aug. 26, Sept. 3 and 9. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270638674 ...

Jones, Bence, 1814-1873

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English physician, chemist and biographer of Michael Faraday. From the description of Papers, 1854-1869, [London]. (Duke University). WorldCat record id: 35129596 ...

Strachey, Richard, Sir, 1817-1908

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Lieutenant general of the Royal Bengal Engineers. From the description of Letters, 1867-1903. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 41546360 From the description of Papers, 1871-1905. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 20400113 1836-1839 2nd lieutenant, Bombay Engineers; 1839 Bengal Engineers; 1841 lieutenant; 1843 executive engineer, Ganges Canal; 1854 captain; 1854 elected fellow of the Royal Society; 1856 under-secretary, Public ...

Cole, Henry. , Sir, 1808-1882

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Sir Henry Cole, English journalist, civil servant, and product designer, and originator of the Christmas card. Cole was the editor of the 1875 edition of the collected works of Thomas Love Peacock. From the description of Sir Henry Cole manuscript material : 1 item, ca. 1875 (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 155718520 From the guide to the Sir Henry Cole manuscript material : 1 item, ca. 1875, (The New York Public Library. Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shell...

Candolle, Augustin Pyramus ˜deœ 1778-1841

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Swiss botanist. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Geneva, to Francis Walker Gilmer in Virginia, 1819 Oct. 23. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270133391 ...

Westwood, J.O. (John Obadiah), 1805-1893

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British entomologist and paleographer, an authority on Anglo-Saxon and medieval manuscripts, and one of the pioneers in the publication of the pictures in illuminated manuscripts. From the description of Sketches and proofs for Illuminated illustrations of the Bible : copied from select manuscripts of the Middle Ages, 1846-1847. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 79821976 British entomologist and paleographer, an authority on Anglo-Saxon and medieval manuscripts...

Reeve, Henry, 1813-1895

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English man of letters. From the description of Autograph letter signed : London, to Madame [Blaze] de Bury, 1855 Oct. 30. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270851994 British author and editor. From the description of Correspondence, 1856-1893. (Rutgers University). WorldCat record id: 28416066 ...

Hooker, William Jackson, Sir, 1785-1865

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William Jackson Hooker was the premier English botanist of his time. His early interest in natural history was refined to botany by the fortuitous discovery of a rare moss. His education included travels through Europe, after which he became regius professor of botany at Glasgow. He published extensively, and founded and edited several journals; his main interests were ferns, mosses, and fungi, and he was a pioneer of economic botany. He was appointed first director of Kew Gardens, which became ...

Kirk, John,

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Spottiswoode, William, 1825-1883

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Mathematician and physicist. Fellow of the Royal Society. From the description of Letters to officers of the Royal Astronomical Society, 1858-1883. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 83717699 From the description of Papers. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 82803769 Epithet: printer, of London British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000169.0x0000d9 Epithet: President of the Royal Society ...

Burton, Decimus, 1800-1881

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English architect. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Spring Garden, to Samuel Prout, 1848 August 7. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270131739 Epithet: architect British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000688.0x000103 ...

Williamson, William Crawford, 1816-1895

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Epithet: naturalist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000300.0x0000f3 Epithet: of Leeds British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000300.0x0000f7 ...

Frankland, Edward, Sir, 1825-1899

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Jenner, William, Sir, 1815-1898

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English physician and professor of pathological anatomy. From the description of Papers, 1868-1873 and undated. (Duke University). WorldCat record id: 35093254 Epithet: Resident at Brest British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000268.0x0001da ...

Ferguson, William, 1820-1887

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English botanist and entomologist. From the description of Letter, 1854, Nov. 10 : to G. Barthes. (Duke University). WorldCat record id: 31674455 ...

Brown, Robert, 1773-1858

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Robert Brown, a botanist and protege of Sir Joseph Banks, accompanied Matthew Flinders on his voyage in the Investigator. His diary (or journal), begun during a visit to Ireland in 1800 was kept until January 1805. From the description of Diary extract. 1802. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 225828145 Scottish physician. From the description of Robert Brown manuscript, [after 1826], [London]. (Duke University). WorldCat record id: 34992600 ...

Grey-Egerton, Philip de Malpas, 1806-1881

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Siemens, Charles William, 1823-1883

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Epithet: FRS British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000976.0x000124 ...

Decaisne, Joseph, 1807-1882

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Franks, Augustus Wollaston, 1826-1897

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Keeper of British and medieval antiquities and ethnography. From the description of Autograph letter signed : British Museum, to C. Fairfax Murray, 1891 Sept. 22. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270751449 ...

Miller, William O.

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Candolle, Alphonse ˜deœ 1806-1893

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Rivett-Carnac, H.?

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Ramsay, A. C. (Andrew Crombie), 1814-1891

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Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

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Turner, Dawson, 1775-1858

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English collector and antiquary. From the description of Autograph letters signed (2) : Yarmouth, to Mr. Kerrich and an unidentified recipient, 1818 Sept. 16 and 1846 Jan. 20. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270872383 English physician and botanist. From the description of Papers, 1800-1820. (Duke University). WorldCat record id: 35527757 English botanist and antiquary. From the description of Autograph letters signed (2) : Yarmouth, 1841 Aug....

Reeve, Lovell, 1814-1865

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Editor of The Literary Gazette. From the description of Autograph letters signed (2) : to Sir Frederic Madden, 1852 Mar. 27 and 30. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270616557 From the description of Autograph letter : to Sir Frederic Madden, 1852 Apr. 3. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270616560 Epithet: conchologist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001033.0x0000e2 ...

Richmond, George.

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Epithet: carpenter, of London British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001129.0x0003e5 Epithet: portrait-painter British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000815.0x0003b9 Epithet: Secretary to Lord Petre; afterwards Bookseller at Paris British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person ...

Hooker, Joseph Dalton, Sir, 1817-1911

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Sir Joseph D. Hooker (1817-1911), botanist, director of the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, England. From the description of Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker collection, 1828-1909. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 38477374 English botanist and traveler. From the description of Autograph letter signed, dated : [London] Mar. 25 1878, to an unidentified recipient at the Daily Telegraph, 1878 Mar. 25. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270666429 Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker was...

Ross, James Clark, Sir, 1800-1862

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Entered the navy in 1812 and accompanied W. E. Parry in four expeditions in Arctic regions. In 1831 Ross discovered the magnetic pole. Commanded Antarctic expedition, 1839-1842. From the description of Letters [manuscript]. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 225765387 Epithet: Captain; RN British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000161.0x0001ed Epithet: Captain; RN Knight 1843 Br...

Lubbock, John, Sir, 1834-1913

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John Lubbock was an English banker, politican, scientist, antiquarian and man of letters. He became the first Baron Avebury, ca. 1900. From the description of Letter : London, England to Douglas Murray, 1911 October 27-31 / Avebury. (Haverford College Library). WorldCat record id: 701491819 English banker and author. From the description of Autograph letters signed (20) : London, Beckenham, St. Andrews, etc., to W.A. Knight, 1883 July 19-1907 Nov. 13, and undated...

Bates, Henry Walter, 1825-1892

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1848-1849 studied wildlife along the Amazon and Tocantins rivers with Alfred Russel Wallace; 1849-1859 continued to study and collect species along the Amazon river; 1862 published 'Contributions to the insect fauna of the Amazon valley: Lepidoptera Heliconidae', in Transactions of the Linnean Society, which described the phenomenon of mimicry; 1864-1892 assistant secretary of the Royal Geographical Society; 1868-1869 and 1878 president of the Entomological Society; 1881 fellow of t...