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Buch, Christian Leopold, Freiherr von
Buckland, William
Burnet, Thomas
Dana, James Dwight
Deluc, Jean André
Dutton, Clarence Edward
Fuchs, Sir Vivian Ernest
Gilbert, Grove Karl
Godwin-Austen, Henry Haversham
Guettard, Jean-Étienne
Holmes, William Henry
Hopkins, William
Hutton, James
Karpinsky, Alexander Petrovich
Logan, Sir William Edmond
Lyell, Sir Charles
Marbut, Curtis Fletcher
Mawson, Sir Douglas
Milne, John
Murchison, Sir Roderick Impey
Nordenskjöld, Nils Adolf Erik, Baron
Powell, John Wesley
Richthofen, Ferdinand, Baron von
Rogers, William Barton
Sedgwick, Adam
Smith, William
Suess, Eduard
Wegener, Alfred Lothar
Werner, Abraham Gottlob
Winthrop, John
Geographers
Anville, Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d'
Barrow, Sir John
Blaeu, Willem Janszoon
Blanchard, Raoul
Blunt, George William
Bowman, Isaiah
Brigham, Albert Perry
David, T. W. E.
Davidson, George
Delisle, Guillaume
Evans, Lewis
Everest, Sir George
Fenneman, Nevin M.
Gannett, Henry
Hakluyt, Richard
Haushofer, Karl
Hettner, Alfred
Idrisi
Koch, Lauge
Markham, Sir Clements Robert
Mawson, Sir Douglas
Mercator, Gerardus
Olney, Jesse
Ortelius, Abraham
Penck, Albrecht
Pomponius Mela
Przhevalsky, Nikolai Mikhailovich
Ptolemy
Ratzel, Friedrich
Rennell, James
Richthofen, Ferdinand, Baron von
Ritter, Karl
Scoresby, William
Semple, Ellen Churchill
Strabo
Thompson, David
Varenius, Bernhardus
Waldseemüller, Martin
Yaqut al-Hamawi
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Bjerknes, Vilhelm Frimann Koren
Buys Ballot, Christoph Heinrich Diedrich
Espy, James Pollard
Glaisher, James
Marvin, Charles Frederick
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Agassiz, Alexander
Aldrovandi, Ulisse
Andrews, Roy Chapman
Banks, Sir Joseph
Bartram, William
Bates, Henry Walter
Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de
Cuvier, Georges Léopold Chrétien Frédéric Dagobert, Baron
Darwin, Charles Robert
Forster, Johann Reinhold
Grinnell, George Bird
Humboldt, Alexander, Freiherr von
Lamarck, Jean Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet, chevalier de
Leeuwenhoek, Antony van
Muir, John
Mutis, José Celestino
Pinchot, Gifford
Pliny the Elder
Ray, John
Redi, Francesco
Say, Thomas
Swammerdam, Jan
Thomson, Sir Charles Wyville
Wallace, Alfred Russel
Willughby, Francis
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Ballard, Robert
Cousteau, Jacques Yves
Ewing, William Maurice
Rennell, James
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Cope, Edward Drinker
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Hall, James
Osborn, Henry Fairfield
Simpson, George Gaylord
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