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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

Henry Francis Blanford (sometimes spelt Blandford) was a British meterologist and palaeontologist who worked in India. He was a younger brother of the naturalist William Thomas Blanford, both of whom joined the Geological Survey of India in 1855. Henry was the first official meteorologist in India, appointed as Imperial Meteorological Reporter in 1875

Angela Georgina Burdett-Coutts, 1st Baroness Burdett-Coutts, born Angela Georgina Burdett, was a British philanthropist, the daughter of Sir Francis Burdett, 5th Baronet and Sophia, formerly Coutts, daughter of banker Thomas Couuts. In 1837 she became one of the wealthiest women in England when she inherited her grandfather's fortune