The district – especially the Upper Calder Valley – has produced a remarkable number of botanists and mycologists. These include:
James Bolton Joseph Capstack William Cash Charles Crossland William Bunting Crump Samuel Fielding Samuel Gibson James Greenwood Edmund Holt Richard Hoyle David Mallinson
Elijah Marshall Charles Edward Moss James Needham John Nowell Edward Pohlmann Dr Richard Richardson Henry Thomas Soppitt Abraham Stansfield John Stead Roy Watling
Note that, in the 19th century, a botanist may also have been a herbalist
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