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James Maxwell McConnell Fisher was a British author, editor, broadcaster, naturalist and ornithologist. He was also a leading authority on Gilbert White and made over 1,000 radio and television broadcasts on natural history subjects.

Fisher was the son of Kenneth Fisher (also a keen ornithologist and headmaster of Oundle School from 1922 to 1945); his maternal uncle was the Cheshire naturalist Arnold Boyd. He was educated at Eton, and began studying medicine at Magdalen College, Oxford, but later switched to zoology. He took part in the Oxford Arctic expedition in 1933 as ornithologist.

After university he joined London Zoo as an assistant curator, and during the war studied rooks for the Ministry of Agriculture. He later became a leading member of the RSPB and IUCN, a member of the National Parks Commission and vice-chairman of the Countryside Commission. Fisher presented the BBC Radio series Birds in Britain from its inception in March 1951 until its end, twelve years later.

As well as writing his own books, he was an editor of Collins' New Naturalist series. He was the resident ornithologist in the regular Nature Parliament series broadcast in the 1950s on BBC radio as part of Children's Hour.

He was awarded the British Trust for Ornithology's Bernard Tucker Medal in 1966

Thomas Hornsey Bell was an English zoologist, dental surgeon and writer, born in Poole, Dorset, England. Bell, like his mother Susan, took a keen interest in natural history which his mother also encouraged in his younger cousin Philip Henry Gosse. He was the first president of the Ray Society, and President of the Linnean Society in 1858. When Charles Darwin returned to London from the Beagle expedition, Bell was quick to take on the task of describing the reptile specimens. He was also entrusted with the specimens of Crustacea collected on the voyage. He played a significant part in the inception of Darwin's theory of natural selection in March 1837 when he confirmed that the giant Galapagos tortoises were native to the islands, not brought in by buccaneers for food as Darwin had thought

John Edwards Hill was a British mammalogist who described 24 species and 26 subspecies during his career. After finishing school, Hill joined the Air Ministry's Meteorological Office as a Meteorological Assistant. He then served in the Royal Air Force for two years as a Meteorological Assistant, during which he travelled to Japan, Singapore, and the Nicobar Islands. In 1948, he began working as an Assistant Experimental Officer at the British Museum (Natural History)'s Department of Zoology. He retired from the Museum 40 years later in 1988. From 1974 to his death in 1997, Hill was on the editorial board of the journal Mammalia

Dame Anne Laura Dorinthea McLaren was a British scientist who was a leading figure in developmental biology. Her work helped lead to human in vitro fertilisation. She received many honors for her contributions to science, including election as fellow of the Royal Society. She received the Zoological Society of London's Scientific Medal for her role in developing techniques for blastocyst transfer into recipient mice

Constantine Walter Benson was a British ornithologist and author of over 350 publications. He is considered the last of a line of British Colonial officials that made significant contributions to ornithology. Benson worked on the collection of birds catalogue in the Cambridge University Museum of Zoology and was one of the founders of the British Ornithologists Union

Ethelwynn Trewavas was an ichthyologist at the British Museum of Natural History. She was known for her work on the families Cichlidae and Sciaenidae