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David Honeyman was born on May 29, 1817, in Fife, Scotland.

He was a Presbyterian minister, geologist, teacher, and curator. He studied Oriental languages and natural sciences at the University of St. Andrews and then theology in Glasgow and Edinburgh. He was licensed to preach in 1841 and in 1848, he accepted a position as a professor of Hebrew at the Free Church College in Halifax, N.S. In 1850, he left the Free Church and joined the Presbyterian Church of Nova Scotia. In 1858, he left the active ministry to become involved in geological studies, but he continued to preach and assist in church work until his death. In 1861, he accepted a commission to present an exhibit of Nova Scotia minerals at the London International Exhibition (1862). He also represented Nova Scotia at the Dublin International Exhibition (1865), at the Universal Exposition in Paris (1867), and at the Philadelphia Centennial International Exhibition (1876). In 1882, he represented Canada at the International Fisheries Exhibition in London. His geological collections won him medals at all these international exhibitions. In 1868, he helped establish the Provincial Museum in Halifax (now the Nova Scotia Museum) and became its curator (1868-1889). He was elected to the Société géologique de France, the Society of Arts and Letters, the Horticultural Society, and the Geologists’ Association of London. He also became a fellow of the Geological Society of London and an original member of the Geological Society of America.

In 1847, he married Mary Donaldson (1824–1903). He died on October 17, 1889, in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker was born on June 30, 1817, in Halesworth, Suffolk, England, the second son of the distinguished botanist, Sir William Jackson Hooker (1785-1865).

He was a British botanist, explorer, and supporter of Darwin’s theories. At 15 he began to attend classes at the University of Glasgow, at first in classics and mathematics and later in medicine (M.D., 1839). Having a wide knowledge of botany based on work in his father's herbarium and on extensive plant-collecting in the British Isles, his degree enabled him to join the Naval Medical Service and to accompany a scientific expedition to the Antarctic (1839-1843). He became assistant director of the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew (1855-1865). In 1865, he succeeded his father as director, serving in that capacity until his retirement in 1885. His last major botanical expedition to the Rocky Mountains and California (1877), led to the publication of several important papers concerning the relationship of American and Asian floras. His travels resulted in the discovery of species new to science, many of which were soon introduced to horticultural circles. He gained an international reputation as a pioneer plant geographer. He was elected a fellow of the Linnean Society in 1842 and of the Royal Society in 1847. He also served as president of the Royal Society (1873–1878) and was knighted in 1877.

In 1851, he married Frances Harriet Henslow (1825–1874) and in 1877, he married Hyacinth Symonds (1842–1921). He died on December 10, 1911, in Sunningdale, Berkshire, England.