Name
- Parker, William Kitchen, comparative anatomist1
- Pinson, Albert Andrew, Captain; husband of Adèle Hugo1
- Poignand, Malcolm, physician1
- Potter, Charles, of Liverpool1
- Prestwich, Joseph, FRS1
- Price, Frederick George Hilton, antiquary1
- Ramsay, Andrew Crombie, geologist; Knight 18811
- Reed, John William, pianoforte manufacturer1
- Reid, James, MRCS; of Canterbury1
- Rothschild and Sons, bankers1
- Rutley, Frank, of the Geological Survey of England and Wales1
- Rütimeyer, Ludwig, of Basel1
- Sanford, William Ayshford, president of the Somerset Archaeological Society1
- Sedgwick, Adam, Reverend FRS1
- Seeley, Harry Govier, geologist1
- Shaw, George, of Benthall Hall, county Shropshire1
- Sherborn ¦, Charles Davies, DSc1
- Southwell, Thomas, FZS1
- Thiselton-Dyer, William Turner, KCMG, Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew1
- Van den Broeck, Ernst, geologist1