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1843-1929
Historian of arms and armour
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1872-1924
John Van Denburgh was an American herpetologist from California. In 1895 he organised the herpetology department of the California Academy of Sciences. He practiced medicine in San Francisco while serving as curator of the herpetological collections of the California Academy of Sciences. After the San Francisco earthquake of 1906 he was instrumental in rebuilding the lost herpetology collections through new expeditions and acquisitions of other collections. In 1922 he published the two-volume The Reptiles of Western North America. He discovered and described at least 38 species of reptiles
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Wrote The Quiet World of Nature in 1934
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1861-1935
Headmistress of St Pauls Girl's School
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1871-1928
One of the 'Wyndham Sisters' by John Singer Sargent which were at the centre of the cultural and political life of their time. Like their parents, they were part of The Souls
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1895-1975
Lancelot Thomas Hogben was a British experimental zoologist and medical statistician. He developed the African clawed frog (Xenopus laevis) as a model organism for biological research in his early career, attacked the eugenic movement in the middle of his career, and popularised books on science, mathematics and language in his later career
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1875-1958
Malcolm Arthur Smith was a herpetologist and physician working in the Malay Peninsula. Smith went on to become the physician in the royal court of Siam and was a doctor to the royal family. He published his observations on the reptiles and amphibians during his stint there and was in regular correspondence with Boulenger at the Natural History Museum in London. He left in 1925 to continue his studies at the museum in London. He was the founder and president of the British Herpetological Society
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fl 1852
ZSL Head Keeper
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