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Robert Brown
Scottish botanist (1773-1858), discoverer of the cell nucleus and of Brownian Motion (1773–1858)
John Muir
Scottish-American naturalist (1838–1914)
William Speirs Bruce
Scottish marine biologist and polar explorer (1867-1921)
John Richardson
Scottish naval surgeon, naturalist and arctic explorer (1787–1865)
John Leslie
British mathematician and physicist (1766–1832)
Alexander Wilson
Scottish-American poet, ornithologist, naturalist, and illustrator (1766-1813)
Sir William Jardine, 7th Baronet
Scottish ornithologist and naturalist (1800–1874)
John Murray
Scottish oceanographer, marine biologist and limnologist (1841-1914)
John Claudius Loudon
Scottish botanist (1782-1843)
Archibald Menzies
Scottish surgeon, botanist and naturalist (1754-1842)
Robert Jameson
British scientist; (1774-1854)
Charles Wyville Thomson
Scottish marine zoologist (1830-1882)
Joseph Thomson
Scottish geologist and explorer (1858–1895)
Thomas Thomson
Scottish doctor and botanist (1817-1878)
William MacGillivray
British naturalist and ornithologist (1796–1852)
John Kirk
Scottish physician, naturalist, companion to David Livingstone and administrator in Zanzibar (1832-1922)
James Hector
Scottish born New Zealand geologist, naturalist, and surgeon (1834-1907)
John Walker
Scottish natural historian (1731-1803)
William Wright
British physician, botanist and slave owner (1735-1819)
William Balfour Baikie
British explorer and scientist
James Edward Tierney Aitchison
Scottish surgeon, botanist (1836-1898)
Patrick Russell
Scottish surgeon and naturalist in India (1726-1805)
John Arthur Thomson
Scottish naturalist (1861–1933)
George Robert Milne Murray
British botanist (1858-1911)
Gavin Maxwell
British naturalist (1914–1969)
Ramsay Traquair
Scottish palaeoichthyologist (1840-1912)
Phillip Alexander Clancey
Scottish-South African ornithologist (1917-2001)
Walter Elliot
naturalist (1803-1887)
William Smellie
Scottish master printer, naturalist, antiquary, editor and encyclopedist (1740-1795)
George Johnston
Scottish physician and naturalist (1797-1855)
Benjamin Heyne
Scottish botanist (1770-1819)
John Young
Scottish physician and naturalist (1835-1902)
Alexander Hunter
British doctor (1729-1809)
Eliza Brightwen
Scottish naturalist (1830-1906)
William Anderson
naturalist and surgeon from Scotland (1750-1778)
William Baird
Scottish physician and zoologist (1803-1872)
Alexander Russell
Scottish physician and naturalist; (1714-1768)
William Ramsay Smith
Scottish physician and anthropologist (1859-1937)
William Serle
Scottish ornithologist
David Robertson
Scottish naturalist and geologist (1806–1896)
John Scouler
Scottish botanist, traveller, naturalist (1804-1871)
James Rennie
British naturalist (1787-1867)
Henry Maurice Drummond-Hay
Scottish ornithologist
John Graham Dalyell
British antiquarian and naturalist
George Finlayson
Scottish naturalist, traveller and writer (1790-1823)
George Dickie
British botanist (1812-1882)