Roderick Murchison
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Sir Roderick Impey Murchison, 1st Baronet was a Scottish geologist who served as director-general of the British Geological Survey from 1855 until his death in 1871. He is noted for investigating and
Portrait by Stephen Pearce, 1856
Vanity Fair print of Sir Roderick Murchison
Roderick Impey Murchison posing with cane
Murchison photographed by Camille Silvy in 1860
William Buckland
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William Buckland DD, FRS was an English theologian, geologist and palaeontologist.
Buckland in 1833
Bust of Buckland in the Oxford University Museum of Natural History
William Conybeare drew this cartoon of Buckland poking his head into a prehistoric hyaena den in 1822 to celebrate Buckland's ground breaking analysis of the fossils found in Kirkdale Cave.
Buckland family silhouette