Ernst Walter Mayr was one of the 20th century's leading evolutionary biologists. He was also a renowned taxonomist, tropical explorer, ornithologist, philosopher of biology, and historian of science. His work contributed to the conceptual revolution that led to the modern evolutionary synthesis of Mendelian genetics, systematics, and Darwinian evolution, and to the development of the biological species concept.
Malacology is the branch of invertebrate zoology that deals with the study of the Mollusca, the second-largest phylum of animals in terms of described species after the arthropods. Mollusks include snails and slugs, clams, and cephalopods, along with numerous other kinds, many of which have shells. Malacology derives from Ancient Greek μαλακός (malakós) 'soft', and -λογία (-logía).
William John Swainson FLS, FRS, was an English ornithologist, malacologist, conchologist, entomologist, and artist.
Johannes Gerardus Keulemans was a Dutch bird illustrator. For most of his life he lived and worked in England, illustrating many of the best-known ornithology books of the nineteenth century.
Sir Norman Boyd Kinnear was a Scottish zoologist and ornithologist.
Francis Walker was an English entomologist. He was born in Southgate, London, on 31 July 1809 and died at Wanstead, England on 5 October 1874. He was one of the most prolific authors in entomology, and stirred controversy during his later life as his publications resulted in a huge number of junior synonyms. However, his assiduous work on the collections of the British Museum had great significance.
William Thompson was an Irish naturalist celebrated for his founding studies of the natural history of Ireland, especially in ornithology and marine biology. Thompson published numerous notes on the distribution, breeding, eggs, habitat, song, plumage, behaviour, nesting and food of birds. These formed the basis of his four-volume The Natural History of Ireland, and were much used by contemporary and later authors such as Francis Orpen Morris.
William Chapman Hewitson was a British naturalist. A wealthy collector, Hewitson was particularly devoted to Coleoptera (beetles) and Lepidoptera and, also, to birds' nests and eggs. His collection of butterflies, collected by him as well as purchased from travellers throughout the world, was one of the largest and most important of his time. He contributed to and published many works on entomology and ornithology and was an accomplished scientific illustrator.
George Perry was a 19th-century English naturalist, a malacologist.
John William Brazier was a malacologist from Australia.
Cymbiola flavicans, common name the yellow volute, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Volutidae, the volutes.
Clanculus brunneus is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Trochidae, the top snails.
Clanculus clangulus is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Trochidae, the top snails.
Clanculus floridus, common name the florid clanculus, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Trochidae, the top snails.
Reginald Wagstaffe (1907–1983) was an English naturalist, ornithologist, and museum curator.
Turriplicifer australis is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk, in the family Costellariidae, the ribbed miters.
Thomas Allis was a British osteologist and museum curator.
Walter Douglas Hincks was a British entomologist and museum curator. He was a world expert on the Dermaptera.
