• Parson-naturalists were ministers of religion who also studied natural history. The archetypical parson-naturalist was a priest in the Church of England...
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  • A parson-naturalist was a cleric (a "parson", strictly defined as a country priest who held the living of a parish, but the term is generally extended...
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    that the most interest lies today. He is known as being one of the first "parson-naturalists" in England. He first published Libellus de Re herbaria in...
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    John George Wood (category Parson-naturalists)
    devote himself to writing on natural history, becoming a well-known parson-naturalist of the Victorian era. However, he continued to take on priestly work...
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    Tūī (redirect from Parson Bird)
    Evolution of Developmental Rates in Altricial Birds". The American Naturalist. 145 (2). [University of Chicago Press, American Society of Naturalists]: 234–260...
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    John Ray (category Parson-naturalists)
    January 1705) was a Christian English naturalist widely regarded as one of the earliest of the English parson-naturalists. Until 1670, he wrote his name as...
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    William Kirby (entomologist) (category Parson-naturalists)
    member of the Linnean Society and a Fellow of the Royal Society, as well as a country rector, so that he was an eminent example of the "parson-naturalist"....
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    cannot be correctly classified as natural history. Notable early parson-naturalists were William Turner (1508–1568), John Ray (1627–1705) and William...
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    Mary Ward (scientist) (category Road incident deaths in the Republic of Ireland)
    Mrs Ward (1827–1869) Artist, Naturalist, Astronomer and Ireland's First Lady of the Microscope". The Irish Naturalists' Journal. 21 (5): 193–200. ISSN 0021-1311...
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    Parson's chameleon (Calumma parsonii) is a species of chameleon in the family Chamaeleonidae that is endemic to eastern and northern Madagascar. It is...
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    Henry Harpur-Crewe (category Parson-naturalists)
    In 1857 his father was the rector of Breadsall in Derbyshire, a small village which also included the naturalists Joseph Whittaker and Francis Darwin...
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  • Each entry on this list of common misconceptions is worded as a correction; the misconceptions themselves are implied rather than stated. These entries...
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    Nations. pp. 86–88. ISBN 92-5-104543-7. Parsons, Glenn R.; Ingram, G. Walter; Havard, Ralph (2002). "First record of the goblin shark Mitsukurina owstoni...
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  • Richard Lydekker (category 19th-century English naturalists)
    (/lɪˈdɛkər/; 25 July 1849 – 16 April 1915) was an English naturalist, geologist and writer of numerous books on natural history. Richard Lydekker was born...
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  • This is a list of professors appearing throughout fiction....
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    John Lightfoot (biologist) (category Parson-naturalists)
    parson-naturalist, spending much of his free time as a conchologist and botanist. He was a systematic and effective curator of the private museum of Margaret...
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  • Oral History Office. p. 3. Retrieved 9 November 2009. Hörter, Ria (2012). "Parson John (Jack) Russell and the Jack Russell Terrier". The Canine Chronicle...
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    Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne, or just The Natural History of Selborne is a book by English parson-naturalist Gilbert White (1720–1793). It...
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    This list of unusual deaths includes unique or extremely rare circumstances of death recorded throughout history, noted as being unusual by multiple sources...
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  • This is a list of pen names used by notable authors of written work. A pen name or nom de plume is a pseudonym adopted by an author. A pen name may be...
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  • list of former Footlights sketch comedy troupe members who have achieved notability after graduating from the University of Cambridge. The careers of...
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    fellow naturalists who could help him with books, illustrations and notes, as well as specimens. He was a life-long friend of clergyman naturalist Leonard...
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    history collection in the country, complete with its own curator, the parson-naturalist John Lightfoot, and the Swedish botanist Daniel Solander. Her collection...
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    fanciful until the French naturalist Georges Cuvier described it in his 1817 Le Règne Animal. Aristotle also noted that the young of the dogfish grow inside...
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  • Below is a list of members of the Order of Merit from the order's creation in 1902 until the present day. The number shown is the individual's place in...
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    Retrieved 6 September 2021. "Peter Scott award – British Naturalists' Association". bna-naturalists.org. Archived from the original on 28 February 2021. Retrieved...
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  • Carl O. Sauer (category Presidents of the American Association of Geographers)
    Dictionary of American and Canadian Naturalists and Environmentalists. Greenwood Press. Sauer, C. O. 1925. "The Morphology of Landscape". University of California...
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  • 2 in) in different sources. Of all chameleons, the largest is the Parson's chameleon (Calumma parsonii), reaching a length of 68 cm (27 in). But the longest...
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    Bernard Germain de Lacépède (category French naturalists)
    syʁ‿ijɔ̃ də lasepɛd]; 26 December 1756 – 6 October 1825) was a French naturalist and an active freemason. He is known for his contribution to the Comte...
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    The president of the Royal Society (PRS), also known as the Royal Society of London, is the elected Head of the Royal Society of London who presides over...
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