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Amphibia and Men Who Collect - Caroline Warfield
He donated his private collection of 71,000 items to the British Museum. The Natural History department of the British Museum opened in 1756 Great figure of the Enlightenment he may have been, but by 1806 when Dr. George Shaw took over as Keeper of Natural History most of that early collection was in terrible condition. […]
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