Major-General Thomas Hardwicke was an English soldier and naturalist who was in India from 1777 to 1823. He collected numerous specimens of natural history and had them painted by Indian artists. From
Thomas Hardwicke
Thomas Hornsey Bell FRS FLS was an English zoologist, dental surgeon and writer, born in Poole, Dorset, England. He was a professor of zoology at King's College from 1836.
Thomas Hardwicke
…produced. Gray described and named many of the species in the work except for some of the testudines which were named on the basis of the manuscripts of Thomas Bell. Some drawings of shells and plants which were part of the collections he bequeathed were probably made by his sister. Hardwicke also collected botanical…
Terrapene clausa from Thomas Bell's "A Monograph of the Testudinata" London: 1832–1836
Gilbert White's house, The Wakes, now a museum, viewed from the back gardens in 2010
Illustration (Plate 17) for one of Bell's articles "Observations on the Neck of the Three-toed Sloth, Bradypus tridactylus, Linn.", by Jane S. Bell