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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