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Kerr, James
Personne · -1891
Kerr, John Graham, Sir
Kerr, John Graham, Sir
Personne · 1869-1957

Sir John Graham Kerr was a British embryologist and Unionist Member of Parliament. He is best known for his studies of the embryology of lungfishes
Kitchener, Horatio Herbert
Personne · 1850-1916

Field Marshal Horatio Herbert Kitchener was a British Army officer and colonial administrator. Kitchener came to prominence for his imperial campaigns, his involvement in the Second Boer War, and his central role in the early part of the First World War
Krell, Paul
Personne · fl 1869
Lankester, Edwin Ray, Sir
Lankester, Edwin Ray, Sir
Personne · 1847-1929

Sir Edwin Ray Lankester was an invertebrate zoologist and evolutionary biologist. He held chairs at University College London and Oxford University. He was the third Director of the Natural History Museum, and was awarded the Copley Medal of the Royal Society
Law, Henry
Personne · fl 1893-1899
Lee, Henry
Personne · 1826-1888

Henry Lee was an English naturalist. He succeeded John Keast Lord as naturalist of the Brighton Aquarium in 1872, and was for a time a director. At the aquarium he instituted experiments on the migration of smelts, the habits of the herring, whitebait, crayfish, and other topics. Lee was an amateur collector of natural history specimens and microscopist. He was a Fellow of the Linnean Society, Geological Society and Zoological Society of London. He was president of the Quekett Microscopical Club from 1875-1877. Lee was sceptical of the claims of cryptozoology and sea serpents. His book Sea Monsters Unmasked (1884) compared sightings of the Kraken to the squid