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Fielding Bradford Meek was born on December 10, 1817, in Madison, Jefferson County, Indiana.

He was an American geologist, paleontologist, and author. In early life, he was in business as a merchant, but when he started to lose his hearing, he devoted most of his leisure time to collecting fossils and studying the rocks. In 1848, he was made assistant to Dr. David Dale Owen and helped organize the U.S. Geological Survey of Iowa, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. In 1852, he became assistant to Prof. James Hall at Albany, New York, and worked at paleontology with him until 1858. In 1853, he accompanied Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden on an exploration of the badlands of Dakota and brought back valuable collections of fossils. They published many writings under the name “Meek & Hayden”. In 1858, Meek moved to Washington, D.C., and became a member of the Megatherium Club at the Smithsonian Institution. He was elected as a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1867. He was the author and co-author of several publications, e.g., "Carboniferous and Jurassic fossils" (1864) and “Report on the Invertebrate Cretaceous and Tertiary Fossils of the Upper Missouri Country" (1876).

He died on December 21, 1876, in Washington, District of Columbia.

Sir William Coles Paget Medlycott was born on June 6, 1831, in Milborne Port, Somerset, England.

He was the 3rd Baronet of the Medlycott family who lived in the famous Ven House in Sherborne, England. He was a naturalist and a Fellow of the Zoological Society. He used to visit Malta frequently to study and draw its natural history and also to hunt and collect birds. Medlycott's main published contribution to Maltese natural history is an appendix (X) entitled "Notes on the Geology, Botany, and Natural History of Malta" in “Malta: Past and Present” (1870). He also published an undated catalogue of birds entitled "Catalogue of the Birds of Malta with their English and Maltese Names". In the course of carrying out research for the publication "History of Ornithology in Malta", Medleycott's very accurate pencil sketches and water-colour drawings of the Malta plants and animals were discovered in the Natural History Museum in London. After Meddleycott’s death, they were donated to the museum by his nephew Sir Hubert Mervyn Medlycott. Apart from visiting Malta, he also travelled to several other countries including North America where he made a similar collection of sketches and water-colour drawings of plants, birds and fishes.

He died on January 8, 1887, in Weymouth, Dorset, England.

The Medical Council of Canada was established in 1901 by an Act of Parliament. Its purpose was to establish uniform professional qualification procedures in all provinces, maintain a register of medical practitioners and set standards for inclusion, establish a board of examiners, facilitate registration of Canadian physicians in the U.K., and promote consistency and cooperation in provincial medical legislation. Its membership is drawn from provincial medical councils, and from the body of practitioners at large.