Sleeman was also the earliest discoverer of dinosaur fossils in Asia.
The ship, sailing on waves at the top of the shield, refers to the city's early discoverers and explorers.
Wouldn't American Indians feel much, much better about themselves if Leif and Columbus were dropped from the curriculum, the early African discoverers put aside, and the discovery properly credited to unknown Indians?
Hind is notable for being one of the early discoverers of asteroids.
It was named for James Smith, an early discoverer of gold.
Enough books have been written on the subject of earlier "discoverers" to fill a small library.
Mydoom was named by Craig Schmugar, an employee of computer security firm McAfee and one of the earliest discoverers of the worm.
Theories abound about supposed earlier discoverers of Madeira - possibly Phoenicians, a sixth-century Irish monk or a pair of shipwrecked English lovers - but there were no inhabitants when the Portuguese arrived.
But the history of the Snark in the Solomons has been the history of every ship since the early discoverers.
According to one leading historian of statistics, he may have been the earliest discoverer of Bayes theorem.