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Robert Charles Wroughton was an officer in the Indian Forest Service from 1871 to 1904. He was a member of the Bombay Natural History Society and was interested in Hymenoptera, particularly ants and then later took an interest in scorpions due to his interaction with Reginald Innes Pocock.

His major work was on the mammals of India and after his retirement in 1904, became a regular worker at the Natural History Museum in London. He initially took an interest in African mammals and there was little material from India. He persuaded his friends in India to collect specimens and this led to a collaborative mammal survey in 1911. The survey went on until 1923. It is believed to be the first collaborative biodiversity study in the world. The project accumulated 50,000 specimens over 12 years and the information was published in 47 papers.

Numerous species are named after him, including Wroughton's Free-tailed Bat and many ant species (Aenictus wroughtonii, Camponotus wroughtonii, Cardiocondyla wroughtonii, Carebara wroughtonii, Chronoxenus wroughtonii, Crematogaster wroughtonii, Hypoponera confinis wroughtonii, Lepisiota rothneyi wroughtonii, Monomorium wroughtoni, Monomorium wroughtonianum, Pheidole wroughtonii, Platythrea wroughtonii, Polyrhachis wroughtonii, Rhoptromyrmex wroughtonii, Tapinoma wroughtonii, Temnothorax wroughtonii)

The Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, commonly known as the Royal Asiatic Society, was established, according to its Royal Charter of 11 August 1824, to further 'the investigation of subjects connected with and for the encouragement of science, literature and the arts in relation to Asia.' From its incorporation the society has been a forum, through lectures, its journal, and other publications, for scholarship relating to Asian culture and society of the highest level. It is the the United Kingdom's senior learned society in the field of Asian studies

Josiah Forshall was born at Witney, Oxfordshire, the eldest son of Samuel Forshall. He received education at the grammar schools of Exeter and Chester, and in 1814 entered Exeter College, Oxford. He graduated BA in 1818, taking a first class in mathematics and a second in literae humaniores. He became MA in 1821, and was elected fellow and tutor of his college.

Forshall was appointed an assistant librarian in the manuscript department of the British Museum in 1824, and became keeper of that department in 1827. In 1828 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society.

In 1828 Forshall was appointed secretary to the Museum, and in 1837 resigned his keepership in order to devote himself exclusively to his secretarial duties. He was examined before the select committee appointed to inquire into the Museum in 1835-6, and made revelations on the subject of patronage.

About 1850 Forshall retired from the museum on account of ill-health. After his resignation he lived in retirement, spending much of his time, until his death, at the Foundling Hospital, of which he had been appointed chaplain in 1829. He died at his house in Woburn Place, London, in 1863, after undergoing a surgical operation

Edward Hawkins was an English numismatist and antiquary. For over 30 years he was the Keeper of Antiquities at the British Museum.

Sir William Jardine, 7th Baronet of Applegarth was a Scottish naturalist. He is known for his editing of a long series of natural history books, The Naturalist's Library.

Jardine was born in 1800 in Edinburgh, the son of Sir Alexander Jardine, 6th baronet of Applegarth and his wife, Jane Maule. He was educated in both York and Edinburgh, then studied medicine at Edinburgh University. Aged 25, he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

He was a co-founder of the Berwickshire Naturalists' Club, and contributed to the founding of the Ray Society. While ornithology was his main passion, he also studies ichthyology, botany and geology. His book on fossil burrows and traces, the Ichnology of Annandale, included fossils from his ancestral estate. He was the first to coin the term ichnology, and this was the first book written on the subject. His private natural history museum and library are said to have been the finest in Britain.

Jardine made natural history available to all levels of Victorian society by editing the forty volumes of The Naturalist's Library, issued and published by his brother in law, the Edinburgh printer and engraver, William Home Lizars. His other publications included an edition of Gilbert White's Natural History of Selborne, Illustrations of Ornithology and an edition of Alexander Wilson's Birds of America.

Jardine described a number of bird species, alone or in conjunction with his friend Prideaux John Selby.

He died in 1874 in Sandown, Isle of Wight.

Henry Piddington was an English sea captain who sailed in East India and China and later settled in Bengal where he worked as a curator of a geological museum and worked on scientific problems, and is well known for his pioneering studies in meteorology of tropical storms and hurricanes. He noted the circular winds around a calm centre recorded by ships caught in storms and coined the name cyclone in 1848.

The Asiatic Society is a Government of India organisation founded during the Company rule in India to enhance and further the cause of 'Oriental research' (in this case, research into India and the surrounding regions). It was founded by the philologist William Jones in 1784 in a meeting presided over by Justice Robert Chambers in Calcutta, the then-capital of the Presidency of Fort William.

Edward Gerrard, founder of the London taxidermy firm Edward Gerrard & Sons, was an employee of the British Museum's zoological department, as an attendant.