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George Bennett was an English-born Australian physician and naturalist, winner of the Clarke Medal in 1890. In 1835 Bennett published in the Transactions of the Zoological Society of London, vol. 1, pp. 229-58, "Notes on the Natural History and Habits of the Ornithorhyncus paradoxus, Blum," one of the earliest papers of importance written on the platypus

Admiral Charles William de la Poer Beresford was a British admiral and Member of Parliament

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

Giovanni Giuseppe Bianconi, sometimes J. Josephi or Joseph Bianconi, was an Italian zoologist, herpetologist, botanist and geologist.

He was a Professor of Natural History at the University of Bologna. In the field of herpetology he described new species of amphibians and reptiles.

In 1874, Bianconi published a book on "independent creations", which utilised zoological arguments against Darwinism. Bianconi argued that "enlightened application of laws of mechanics, physics, physiology" led to the conclusion that every part of an organism had been created by the "unlimited intelligence" of God.

Bianconi argued that homologous structures are explained on mechanical principles. Darwin briefly mentioned Bianconi and rejected his arguments in a footnote in his The Descent of Man

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

Robert Gambier Bolton was an English author and photographer of subjects on natural history and psychical phenomena. Bolton made numerous photographs of animals during his travels to many countries, including one with the party accompanying the Duke of Newcastle on his tour. His interest in animal photography was professional, amongst the first intending to profit from this pursuit. His works are sometimes preserved as scientific records for societies, though their value was not widely recognised, and appeared in journals and books of zoology