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Sowerby, George Brettingham 
Person · 1812-1884

George Brettingham Sowerby II was a British naturalist, illustrator and conchologist. Together with his father, George Brettingham Sowerby I, he published the Thesaurus Conchyliorum and other illustrated works on molluscs. He was elected a Fellow of the Linnean Society on 7th May 1844. He was the father of George Brettingham Sowerby III, also a malacologist
Sowerby, William
Person · 1869-1871

William Sowerby was a botanist, illustrator and Secretary of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Regent's Park, London
Spanner, L R
Person · fl 1937-1978

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Speke, John Hanning
Speke, John Hanning
Person · 1827-1864

Captain John Hanning Speke was an English explorer and officer in the British Indian Army who made three exploratory expeditions to Africa. He is most associated with the search for the source of the Nile and was the first European to reach Lake Victoria
Spencer, Herbert
Person · 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