Talk:Charles Stokes (collector)

unhelpful blob of names

Not certain what others think. however the blob of names dropped in the article

His circle of acquaintance was large and distinguished, and ranged over the arts and the sciences. He knew in person or exchanged letters with: Louis Agassiz (1807–1873), Swiss-American biologist and geologist; Charles Babbage (1791–1871), British computer pioneer; George Back (1796–1878), Royal Navy officer, explorer of the Canadian Arctic, naturalist and artist; Francis Baily (1774–1844), English astronomer; Henry Wolsey Bayfield (1795–1885), Royal Navy officer and surveyor; John Bigsby (1792–1881), English physician and geologist; John Bostock (1773–1846), English physician, scientist and geologist; James Scott Bowerbank (1797–1877), British naturalist and palaeontologist; Arthur de Capell Brooke (1791–1858), British baronet and travel writer; William Broderip (1789–1859), English lawyer and naturalist; Alexandre Brongniart (1770–1847), French chemist, mineralogist, and zoologist; Robert Brown (1773–1858), Scottish botanist and palaeobotanist; William Buckland (1784–1856), English theologian, geologist and palaeontologist; Augustus Wall Callcott (1779–1844), English landscape painter; Francis Leggatt Chantrey (1781–1841), English sculptor; William Clift (1775–1849), British illustrator and conservator; Spencer Compton (1790–1851), British nobleman and patron of science and the arts; George Cumberland (1754–1848), English art collector, writer and poet; Charles Darwin (1809–1882), English naturalist, geologist and biologist; Francis Egerton (1800–1857), British politician, writer, traveller and patron of the arts; Philip Grey Egerton (1806–1881), English palaeontologist and Conservative politician; Hugh Falconer (1808–1865), Scottish geologist, botanist, palaeontologist and paleoanthropologist; Edward Forbes (1815–1854), Manx naturalist; John Franklin (1786–1847), Royal Navy officer and explorer of the Arctic; Francis Seymour Haden (1818–1910), English surgeon and etcher; James Hall (1761–1832), Scottish geologist and geophysicist; William Hamilton (1805–1867), English geologist; Thomas Hawkins (1810–1899), English fossil collector and dealer; Isaac Hays (1796–1879), American ophthalmologist, medical ethicist, and naturalist; William Hilton (1786–1839), English portrait and history painter; Charles Joseph Hullmandel (1789–1850), English lithographer; George Jones (1786–1869), British painter; Edwin Landseer (1802–1873), English painter and sculptor; Isaac Lea (1792–1886), American conchologist, geologist, and publisher; William Elford Leach (1791–1836), English zoologist and marine biologist; the Loddiges family, German-English horticulturalists; William Lonsdale (1794–1871), English geologist and palaeontologist; Charles Lyell (1797–1875), Scottish geologist; George Francis Lyon (1795–1832), Royal Navy officer and explorer; Gideon Mantell (1790–1852), English obstetrician, geologist and palaeontologist; Henri Milne-Edwards (1800–1885), French zoologist; Roderick Murchison (1792–1871), British geologist; Richard Owen (1804–1892), English biologist, comparative anatomist and palaeontologist; Edward Parry (1790–1855), Royal Navy officer was an English rear-admiral and Arctic explorer; Joseph Barclay Pentland (1797–1873), Irish geographer, natural scientist, and traveller; John Phillips (1800–1874), English geologist; David Ricardo (1772–1823), British political economist; Peter Mark Roget (1779–1869), British physician, natural theologian and lexicographer; James Ross (1800–1862), Royal Navy officer and Antarctic explorer; John Ruskin (1819–1900), English art critic and polymath; Adam Sedgwick (1785–1873), British priest and geologist; George Brettingham Sowerby (1788–1854), British naturalist, illustrator and conchologist; Edward Stanley (1779–1849), bishop of Norwich, president of the Linnean Society; Samuel Stutchbury (1798–1859), English naturalist and geologist; John Taylor (1779–1863), British mining engineer; John Vaughan Thompson (1779–1847), British military surgeon, marine biologist, zoologist and botanist; Wilhelm Gottlieb Tilesius von Tilenau (1769–1857), German naturalist and explorer, physician, draftsman and engraver; J. M. W. Turner (1775–1851), English Romantic painter, printmaker and watercolourist; William Whewell (1794–1866), English polymath, scientist, Anglican priest, philosopher, theologian and historian of science; Joseph Whidbey (1757–1833), Royal Navy explorer and engineer; Anna Matilda Whistler (1804–1881), best known as the subject of the painting Arrangement in Grey and Black No.1 ("Whistler's Mother") by James McNeill Whistler; Henry Witham (1779–1844), English researcher into the internal structure of fossil plants; and William Wollaston (1766–1828), English chemist and physicist.

is just a blob of inpenetrable text where one could just say "so what". The names should be in context to the person's biography. I would recommend culling the whole paragraph, and work on what is trying to be portrayed. If there is a good archive of letters representing his correspondence, then put it into context s is, just a show stopper in the middle of the article. — billinghurst sDrewth 01:32, 23 July 2023 (UTC)