Study of organisms and other natural objects through observation, collection and description; historically it included subjects now separated among several sciences.
The learned society to which materials by Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace were communicated together on 1 July 1858.
A practitioner who observes, collects, describes or classifies organisms and other natural objects. The historical role predates modern disciplinary divisions among biology, geology and related subjects.
The naturalist and publisher who wrote Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation by Robert Chambers.
Portrait of Robert Chambers
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