WThe British Geological Survey (BGS) is a partly publicly funded body which aims to advance geoscientific knowledge of the United Kingdom landmass and its continental shelf by means of systematic surveying, monitoring and research.
WWilliam Hellier Baily was an English palaeontologist. His uncle was E.H. Baily, a sculptor. William Hellier Baily was born at Bristol on 7 July 1819.
WSir Henry Thomas De la Beche KCB, FRS was an English geologist and palaeontologist, the first director of the Geological Survey of Great Britain, who helped pioneer early geological survey methods. He was the first President of the Palaeontographical Society.
WJames Croll, FRS, was a 19th-century Scottish scientist who developed a theory of climate variability based on changes in the Earth's orbit.
WProfessor Edward Forbes FRS, FGS was a Manx naturalist. In 1846, he proposed that the distributions of montane plants and animals had been compressed downslope, and some oceanic islands connected to the mainland, during the recent ice age. This mechanism, which was the first natural explanation to explain the distributions of the same species on now-isolated islands and mountain tops, was discovered independently by Charles Darwin, who credited Forbes with the idea. He also incorrectly deduced, the so-called azoic hypothesis, that life under the sea would decline to the point that no life forms could exist below a certain depth.
WSir Archibald Geikie, was a Scottish geologist and writer.
WSir Joseph Dalton Hooker was a British botanist and explorer in the 19th century. He was a founder of geographical botany and Charles Darwin's closest friend. For twenty years he served as director of the Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew, succeeding his father, William Jackson Hooker, and was awarded the highest honours of British science.
WJoseph Wilson Lowry (1803–1879) was an English engraver.
WThe Palaeontological Association is a charitable organisation based in the UK founded in 1957 for the promotion of the study of palaeontology and allied sciences.
WLyon Playfair, 1st Baron Playfair was a British scientist and Liberal politician.
WSir Andrew Crombie Ramsay was a Scottish geologist.
WJohn William Salter was an English naturalist, geologist, and palaeontologist.