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Each name in the following list of naturalists is linked to a
corresponding capsule "chrono-biographical" sketch of that individual
prepared by the authors. Coverage extends from approximately 1950
backward in time as far as the eighteenth century; figures from all over
the world are included (though there is admittedly a decided
Anglo-American bias). The target subject here is biogeography, but this
being a broad field there are many persons on the list who are better
known as climatologists, zoologists, botanists, ecologists,
oceanographers, paleontologists, etc.--in other words, who made their
main reputations in cognate disciplines.
This service has been set up to support my two "Early Classics in
Biogeography, Distribution and Diversity Studies" websites, and because
of this no claims are made of having produced a list of all workers
relevant to these studies (in fact, the most famous figures, such as
Louis Agassiz, Alfred Russel Wallace and Charles Darwin, although listed
below, are not covered here inasmuch as satisfactory biographical
information on them is easy to find elsewhere on the Web). Note in this
context that only those persons who produced works appearing in the
"Early Classics...To 1950" list were considered for inclusion below, and
therefore that many notable figures whose reputations largely postdate
1950 are not treated. This was simply a concession made to the limited
time available to do the work.
My thanks to Western Kentucky University for providing funding that
significantly contributed to the completion of this service. Also to
David Hall, who collected some additional data for me in 2006. -- C. H.
S.
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