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Charles Wood, 1st Viscount Halifax, known as Sir Charles Wood, 3rd Baronet, between 1846 and 1866, was a British Whig politician and Member of the British Parliament. He served as Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1846 to 1852

John Anderson was a Scottish anatomist and zoologist who worked in India as the curator of the Indian Museum, Calcutta

Baird was a Scottish Zoologist and physician. He was best known for his 1850 work, The Natural History of British Entomostraca.

Baird studied at the High School of Edinburgh, before studying medicine at the universities of Edinburgh, Dublin and Paris. He was a surgeon for the East India Company from 1823 to 1833, travelling to India, China and other countries, and taking a keen interest in those countries' natural history. He helped found the Berwickshire Naturalists' Club in 1829. Baird practiced as a doctor in London until 1841, when he joined the zoology department of the British Museum (Natural History).

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Lewis Adolphus Bernays was a public servant and agricultural writer in Queensland, Australia. He was one of the founders of the Queensland Acclimatisation Society, and for a time its President