Charles Joseph Gahan was an Irish entomologist who specialized in beetles, particularly the Cerambycidae. He served as keeper at the department of entomology in the British Museum for thirteen years after Charles Owen Waterhouse.
AFI's 100 Years...100 Stars is the American Film Institute's list ranking the top 25 female and 25 male greatest screen legends of American film history and is the second list of the AFI 100 Years... series.
Madras College, often referred to as Madras, is a Scottish comprehensive secondary school located in St Andrews, Fife. It educates over 1,400 pupils aged between 11 and 18 and was founded in 1833 by the Rev. Dr Andrew Bell.
Morgan Crofton was an Irish mathematician who contributed to the field of geometric probability theory. He also worked with James Joseph Sylvester and contributed an article on probability to the 9th edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica. Crofton's formula is named in his honour.
Joseph Jackson Lister FRS was a British zoologist and plant collector from Leytonstone who collected biological specimens during travels in Africa, Asia, Australasia and the Pacific region.
William Valentine Mayneord, CBE FRS was a British physicist and pioneer in the field of medical physics.
Rupert Croft-Cooke was an English writer. A prolific creator of fiction and non-fiction, including screenplays and biographies under his own name and detective stories under the pseudonym of Leo Bruce.
Sir Thomas Tassell Grant KCB FRS was a notable inventor in the 19th century.
Sir John Stanley, 1st Baronet of Grangegorman, Co. Dublin was an Irish politician.
Philip Packer FRS was an English barrister and architect. He was a courtier to Charles II, and friend to Christopher Wren.
The Supreme Court of the State of New York, Appellate Division, First Judicial Department, or simply the First Department, is one of the four geographical components of the New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division, the intermediate appellate court of the State of New York. Its courthouse is located in Manhattan, New York City.
The Keeper of Mineralogy is a geological academic position within the Natural History Museum, London. Following structural changes in the scientific departments in 2013 the Departments of Mineralogy and Palaeontology merged to become the Earth Sciences Department http://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/departments-and-staff/earth-sciences.html. The title Keeper of Mineralogy is no longer used. The current Head of the Department is Professor Richard Herrington http://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/departments-and-staff/staff-directory/richard-herrington.html