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McLachlan, Robert
Persona · 1837-1904

Robert McLachlan was an English entomologist specialising in the study of lacewings and caddisflies. McLachlan was the first editor of the review Entomologist's Monthly Magazine. He became a member of the Entomological Society of London in 1858, and served variously as secretary, treasurer and president. He was a member of the Linnean Society of London from 1862, and was elected to the Royal Society in 1877. He was also a member of the Zoological Society of London, the Royal Horticultural Society, a member of the council of the Ray Society and a member of various other British and foreign learned societies

Moore, John Edward Shorec 
Persona · 1870-1947

John Edmund Sharrock Moore was an English biologist, best known for being co-publisher of the term meiosis and leading two expeditions to Tanganyika.

In 1904 he married Heloise Salvin, second daughter of the naturalist Osbert Salvin. Moore frequently used the name Salvin-Moore after his marriage. They had one child Osbert John Salvin Moore.

Although he is often cited as John Edward Sharrock Moore, he used several versions of his name.

In 1900 he was appointed as a Demonstrator in Zoology at the Royal College of Science. He became an acting Professor of Zoology there from 1903 to 1905. In 1906 he was appointed the Professor of Experimental and Pathological Cytology and Director of the Cancer Research Laboratories at the University of Liverpool, retiring in 1908.

He was the first to be awarded the Huxley Gold Medal for Research, in 1900 by Royal College of Science. He was a Fellow of the Royal Geographic Society from 1901, the Linnean Society and the Zoological Society of London

Pelzeln, August von
Persona · 1825-1891

August von Pelzeln was an Austrian ornithologist. He studied at the University of Vienna, later working as an assistant under helminthologist Karl Moriz Diesing in the Hof-Naturalien-Cabinet from 1851. In 1857 he acquired curatorial duties formerly held by Johann Jakob Heckel, and subsequently became in charge of the bird (1857) and mammal (1869) collections. He worked on the birds collected by Johann Natterer in Brazil (343 species)

Pery, William Hale John Charles
Persona · 1840-1896

William Hale John Charles Pery, styled Viscount Glentworth until 1866, was an Irish peer and Conservative politician. He served as Captain of the Yeoman of the Guard under Lord Salisbury between 1889 and 1892 and again between 1895 and his death in 1896. In 1892 he was made a Knight of the Order of St Patrick