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unusual facts about Linnean Society



Abel Ingpen

Abel Ingpen was an original Member of the Entomological Society of London, a Member of the Microscopical Society of London and an Associate Member of the Linnean Society.

Alexander Peckover, 1st Baron Peckover

Alexander Peckover, 1st Baron Peckover FRGS, FSA, FLS (16 August 1830 – 21 October 1919), was a British quaker banker, philanthropist and collector of ancient manuscripts.

Charles Smith Bird

Bird was also an entomologist, and became a fellow of the Linnean Society in 1828, publishing in the Entomological Magazine.

David Don

In 1938 the London County Council marked Don at 32 Soho Square with a rectangular stone plaque, commemorating him as well as botanists Joseph Banks and Robert Brown and meetings of the Linnean Society.

Edmund Davall

Davall became interested in botany, making the acquaintance of Edward Forster and of James Edward Smith, and becoming one of the original fellows of the Linnean Society.


see also

Society of Entomologists of London

1824 saw most of the members of the two latter societies joined with various members of the Linnean Society of London to found the Zoological Club of the Linnean Society of London, which later became the Zoological Society of London.

William John Macleay

Receiving little support he eventually left £12,000 to the University of Sydney for the foundation of a chair or lectureship in bacteriology, but this was rejected by the university senate due to the conditions of the bequest and the money went to the Linnean Society.