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href="/wiki/Adam_Sedgwick" title="Adam Sedgwick">Adam Sedgwick</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roderick_Murchison" title="Roderick Murchison">Roderick Murchison</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Bellas_Greenough" title="George Bellas Greenough">George Bellas Greenough</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Lyell" title="Charles Lyell">Charles Lyell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Whewell" title="William Whewell">William Whewell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Buckland" title="William Buckland">William Buckland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roderick_Murchison" title="Roderick Murchison">Roderick Murchison</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henry_Warburton" title="Henry Warburton">Henry Warburton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leonard_Horner" title="Leonard Horner">Leonard Horner</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henry_De_la_Beche" title="Henry De la Beche">Henry De la Beche</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Hopkins" title="William Hopkins">William Hopkins</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edward_Forbes" title="Edward Forbes">Edward Forbes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Hamilton_(geologist)" title="William Hamilton (geologist)">William Hamilton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Daniel_Sharpe" title="Daniel Sharpe">Daniel Sharpe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joseph_Ellison_Portlock" title="Joseph Ellison Portlock">Joseph Ellison Portlock</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Phillips_(geologist)" title="John Phillips (geologist)">John Phillips</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leonard_Horner" title="Leonard Horner">Leonard Horner</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Andrew_Ramsay_(geologist)" title="Andrew Ramsay (geologist)">Andrew Crombie Ramsay</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Hamilton_(geologist)" title="William Hamilton (geologist)">William Hamilton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Warington_Wilkinson_Smyth" title="Warington Wilkinson Smyth">Warington Wilkinson Smyth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Henry_Huxley" title="Thomas Henry Huxley">Thomas Henry Huxley</a></li> <li><a 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title="Francis Arthur Bather">Francis Bather</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Walter_Gregory" title="John Walter Gregory">John Gregory</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edmund_Johnston_Garwood" title="Edmund Johnston Garwood">Edmund Garwood</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Henry_Holland" title="Thomas Henry Holland">Thomas Holland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Frederick_Norman_Green" title="John Frederick Norman Green">John Green</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Owen_Thomas_Jones" title="Owen Thomas Jones">Owen Thomas Jones</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henry_Hurd_Swinnerton" title="Henry Hurd Swinnerton">Henry Hurd Swinnerton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Percy_George_Hamnall_Boswell" title="Percy George Hamnall Boswell">Percy Boswell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Herbert_Leader_Hawkins" title="Herbert Leader Hawkins">Herbert Leader Hawkins</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_George_Fearnsides" title="William George Fearnsides">William Fearnsides</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/A._E._Trueman" 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