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Frederic Moore was a British entomologist and illustrator. He produced six volumes of Lepidoptera Indica and a catalogue of the birds in the collection of the East India Company.

It has been said that Moore was born at 33 Bruton Street, but that may be incorrect given that this was the address of the office of the Zoological Society of London from 1826 to 1836.

Moore was appointed an assistant in the East India Company Museum in London from 31 May 1848 on a 'disestablished basis' and became a temporary write and then an assistant curator at the East India Museum with a pension of £330 per annum.

He began compiling Lepidoptera Indica (1890-1913), a major work on the butterflies of the South Asia in 10 volumes, which was completed after his death by Charles Swinhoe. Many of the plates were produced by his son while some others were produced by E C Knight and John Nugent Fitch. Many species of butterfly were described by him in this work.

Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein was a Danish-born German prince who became a member of the British royal family through his marriage to Princess Helena of the United Kingdom, the fifth child and third daughter of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha

Adam Sedgewick was a British geologist and Anglican priest, one of the founders of modern geology.

Mary Anning was an English fossil collector, dealer and palaeontologist who became known around the world for the discoveries she made in Jurassic marine fossil beds in the cliffs along the English Channel at Lyme Regis in the county of Dorset in Southwest England. Anning's findings contributed to changes in scientific thinking about prehistoric life and the history of the earth.

Her discoveries included the first correctly identified ichthyosaur skeleton when she was twelve years old; the first two nearly complete plesiosaur skeletons; the first pterosaur skeleton located outside Germany; and fish fossils. Her observations played a key role in the discovery that coprolites, known as bezoar stones at the time, were fossilised faeces, and she also discovered that belemnite fossils contained fossilised ink sacs like those of modern cephalopods.