* John Henry Gurney, banker and amateur ornithologist

It was named by South African ornithologist and author Austin Roberts in honour of the English bankers and amateur ornithologists John Henry Gurney and John Henry Gurney Jr ..

* Edward Harris ( ornithologist ) ( 1799 – 1863 ), American farmer and amateur naturalist

The species was formally described as a race of Soft-plumaged Petrel by Australian amateur ornithologist Gregory Mathews in 1934.

It was named after Eugene Bicknell, an American amateur ornithologist, who discovered the species on Slide Mountain in the Catskills in the late 19th century.

Allan Octavian Hume ( 6 June 1829-31 July 1912 ) was a civil servant, political reformer and amateur ornithologist and horticulturalist in British India.

* Neville William Cayley ( 1886 – 1950 ), Australian author, artist and amateur ornithologist

Guy Mountfort OBE ( 4 December 1905 – 24 April 2003 ) was an English advertising executive, amateur ornithologist and conservationist.

Henry Seebohm ( 12 July 1832-26 November 1895 ) was an English steel manufacturer, and amateur ornithologist, oologist and traveller.

Gregory Macalister Mathews CBE ( 10 September 1876-27 March 1949 ) was an Australian amateur ornithologist.

George Newbold Lawrence ( October 20, 1806 – January 17, 1895 ) was an American businessman and amateur ornithologist.

* John Douglas Gibson ( 1924 – 1984 ), Australian amateur ornithologist

A lawyer by trade, he was also an enthusiastic amateur ornithologist.

* Oliver Michael Griffiths Newman, Australian metallurgist and amateur ornithologist

* Harry Wolstenholme, lawyer and amateur ornithologist lived in Wahroonga

François Victor Masséna, 2nd Duke of Rivoli and 3rd Prince of Essling ( born April 2, 1799 in Antibes, died April 16, 1863 ) was an amateur ornithologist.

Dave Gerhardt, Class of 2005, notable ornithologist and amateur octogenarian.

* Harry Wolstenholme, lawyer and keen amateur ornithologist lived in Marrickville as a child ; and his mother

Henry Boardman Conover ( January 18, 1892 – May 5, 1950 ) was an American soldier and amateur ornithologist.

Henry Eliot Howard JP ( 13 November 1873-26 December 1940 ) was an amateur English ornithologist, noted for being one of the first to describe territoriality behaviours in birds in a detailed manner.

( 1922 – 2000 ) was an Australian amateur ornithologist who worked for the Sydney County Council for most of life until he retired in 1983.

* Henry Eliot Howard ( 1873 – 1940 ), amateur English ornithologist

Luciano was an enthusiastic amateur ornithologist and an avid reader.

Peter G. Kaestner is an American diplomat and amateur ornithologist currently serving as a senior inspector in the Office of Inspector General of the U. S. State Department.

In this episode of To the Ends of the Earth, an English amateur botanist seeks personal transformation from the indigenous peoples of the Amazon.

One of a long line of peasants and priests, Nils was an amateur botanist, a Lutheran minister, and the curate of the small village of Stenbrohult in Småland.

* 1666 – James Sherard, English apothecary, botanist, and amateur musician ( d. 1738 )

In 1942 another amateur botanist recorded 262 species of flowering plants at Tintagel.

The tree's scientific name honors Gotthilf Heinrich Ernst Muhlenberg ( 1753 – 1815 ), a Lutheran pastor and amateur botanist in Pennsylvania.

She was also an amateur botanist who helped expand Kew Gardens.

The flora of Mill Hill was supplemented by the work of the amateur botanist Richard William Bowry Buckland ( died 1947 ), governor of the foundation from 1878 to 1889, who cultivated a garden in the south-west of the school's grounds for the enjoyment of future generations.

The Tuscan prince was an avid intellectual, being an antiquarian, a botanist and an amateur scientist.

He was cousin of the amateur botanist Isaac Swainson.

") Poinsett, an avid amateur botanist, sent samples of the plant home to the States and by 1836 the plant was most widely known as the " poinsettia.

He at times would slip away to his favourite holiday retreat where he was seen collecting plant specimens as a very keen amateur botanist who had his own herbarium.

He owned over 18, 000 coins and medals, and was also an archaeologist, amateur artist, historian ( he demonstrated that Julius Caesar's invasion of Britain set out not from Calais but from St Omer ), Egyptologist, botanist, zoologist ( studying chameleons, crocodiles, the elephant and the alzaron, a sort of Nubian gazelle with a bull-like head, now disappeared ), physiologist, geographer ( put on the project of linking Aix to Marseilles ), and ecologist.

Born in Nantwich, Cheshire, England, third son of a banker & amateur botanist / geologist, Bowman attended Hazelwood School near Birmingham from 1826.

It was later named for Sir Henry Blake, British Governor of Hong Kong, from 1898 to 1903 who was a keen amateur botanist, by the man who made the first thorough scientific description of the ' Hong Kong orchid tree ' S. T. Dunn, Superintendent of the Botanical and Forestry Department, who assigned it to the genus Bauhinia and named it after Blake in his paper of 1908.

* Kenneth Kent Mackenzie ( 1877 – 1934 ), lawyer and amateur botanist

In addition to being an able scientist and administrator, Bhabha was also a painter and a classical music and opera enthusiast, besides being an amateur botanist. He is one of the most prominent scientists that India has ever had.

He was a keen amateur botanist, and spent so long in the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew that the staff gave him a key.

Horatio Hollis Hunnewell ( July 27, 1810-May 20, 1902 ), was a banker, railroad financier, philanthropist, amateur botanist, and one of the most prominent horticulturists in America in the nineteenth century.

In addition to his medical accomplishments, he was also a gifted amateur botanist, and published a book on the flora of the Grand-Duchy of Hesse.

Eugen and his brother Friedrich were introduced to natural history at an early age by their father Friedrich Lorenz Esper, an amateur botanist.

Soleirol, an amateur botanist, originally collected the plant in Corsica.

The Sulphur Bank mercury mine next became the possession of George T. Ruddock, a mining engineer and amateur botanist, who lived in Alameda in 1910 and San Francisco by 1920.

The scientific name was given in honour of the French missionary and amateur botanist Père Paul Guillaume Farges.

The genus is named after Maximilian Eugen Joseph ( 1817-1852 ), duke of Leuchtenberg and amateur botanist.