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The Royal Society of Edinburgh is Scotland's national academy of science and letters. It is a registered charity that operates on a wholly independent and non-partisan basis and provides public benefit throughout Scotland. It was established in 1783. The Society covers a broader range of fields than the Royal Society of London, including literature and history. The Fellowship includes people from a wide range of disciplines: science and technology, arts, humanities, medicine, social science, business, and public service

Frank Finn was an English ornithologist. He went on a collecting expedition to East Africa in 1892, and became First Assistant Superintendent of the Indian Museum, Calcutta in 1894, and Deputy Superintendent from 1895 to 1903. He then returned to England, and was editor of the Avicultural Magazine 1909-10.

Sir William Edmund Garstin was a British civil engineer. He was responsible for a number of important hydrological and public works in Egypt. Garstin was Under Secretary of State for Public Works in Egypt. The extinct giant snake Gigantophis garstini was named in his honour

James Stevenson-Hamilton served from 1902-1946 as the first warden of South Africa's Sabi Nature Reserve, which was expanded under his watch and became the Kruger National Park in 1926

William Temple Hornaday was an American zoologist, conservationist, taxidermist and author. He served as the first director of the New York Zoological Park, known today as the Bronx Zoo, and he was a pioneer in the early wildlife conservation movement in the United States