— MegatheriumSociety.org is a VIEWER-PARTICIPANT WEBSITE.Click on the link for information on what that means. Swedish botanist, physician, zoologist, and taxonomist Carl Linnaeus was born on 23 May 1707 in southern Sweden, specifically in rural Småland, the city of Råshult, an area dominated by high forested plains an poor soils unsuited to agriculture but perfect ...

— MegatheriumSociety.org is a VIEWER-PARTICIPANT WEBSITE.Click on the link for information on what that means. English entomologist and archeologist John Obadiah Westwood was born in Sheffield, England, on 22 December 1805. He spent his childhood there and in Lichfield Staffordshire.  Educated as a lawyer, he evidently found that work less than satisfying, as his life ...

— MegatheriumSociety.org is a VIEWER-PARTICIPANT WEBSITE.Click on the link for information on what that means. French entomologist Pierre-Hippolyte Lucas was born in France on 17 January 1814  and died on 5 July 1899. His exact place of birth and death are not known. He is known as Hippolyte Lucas. We have it on good authority ...