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Campbell, William
William Campbell
Irish-born American parasitologist
Leidy
Joseph Leidy
American zoologist
Lankester, Edwin Ray
Sir Edwin Ray Lankester
British zoologist
Beneden, Pierre-Joseph van
Pierre-Joseph van Beneden
Belgian scientist
Laveran
Alphonse Laveran
French physician and pathologist
Manson, detail of an oil painting by J. Young Hunter, 1912; in the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, London
Sir Patrick Manson
Scottish parasitologist
Rudolf Leuckart
German zoologist

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