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Edward Onslow Ford was an English sculptor. Much of Ford's early success came with portrait heads or busts. For also produced a number of bronze statuettes of free-standing figures loosely drawn from mythology or of allegorical subjects

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Albert Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire was a French zoologist who served as a director of the Jardin d'acclimatation du Bois de Boulogne in Paris from 1865 to 1893. He was the son of the zoologist Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilare and grandson of the naturalist Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire

Arthur Grote was an English colonial administrator. He entered the Bengal Civil Service in 1834, where as a civil servant he was employed in Bengal from 1834 to 1868 and was commissioner and member of the Board of Revenue, Calcutta, 1861-8. He also served as President of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, 1859-62 and 1865, and President of the Royal Agricultural Society of India. On his return to England in 1868 he became a prominent member of the Linnean Society of London and Royal Asiatic Society, and wrote many papers on natural history subjects