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Persoon · 1819-1861

Prince Albert of Sax-Coburg and Gotha was the consort of Queen Victoria from their marriage on 10th February 1840 until his death in 1861. He was President of the Zoological Society of London 1851-1862.

Persoon · 1890-1977

Sir Arthur Landsborough Thomson was a Scottish medical researcher, amateur ornithologist, ornithological author and expert on bird migration. He was President of the British Ornithologists' Union from 1848-1955. He was President of the Zoological Society of London 1946-1950. He was Chairman of the British Trust for Ornithology 1941-1947 and won the Trust's Bernard Tucker Medal in 1957. In 1959 he was awarded the Godman-Salvin Medal.

Beddington, John Rex, Sir
Persoon · 1945-

Sir John Rex Beddington is a British population biologist and Senior Adviser at the Oxford Martin School, and was previously Professor of Applied Population Biology at Imperial College London, and the UK Government Chief Scientific Adviser from 2008 until 2013. He is the President of the Zoological Society of London.

Buckland, William
Persoon · 1784-1856

William Buckland was an English theologian who became Dean of Westminster. He was also a geologist and palaeontologist

Poles, William Eustace
Persoon

Major Poles joined the Northern Rhodesia Game and Tsetse Control Department - now the National Parks and Wildlife Service, Zambia - and was given charge of a vast area centred on Mpika, which included the Luangwa Valley (accessible only on foot)

Cuvier, Georges, Baron
Persoon · 1769-1832

A French naturalist and zoologist, sometimes referred to as the 'founding father of palaeontology'. Cuvier was a major figure in natural sciences research in the early 19th century and was instrumental in establishing the fields of comparative anatomy and palaeontology through his work in comparing living animals with fossils

Veale & Saunders
Instelling · fl 1939

Chartered Quantity Surveyors

Spencer, Herbert
Persoon · 1820-1903

Herbert Spencer was an English polymath active as a philosopher, psychologist, biologist, sociologist and anthropologist. Spencer originated the expression "survival of the fittest", which he coined in Principles of Biology after reading Charles Darwin's book On the Origin of Species