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Some thoughts on scientific collecting

10,000 Birds

Box after box of egg. So it was the right decision for the scientist to bring it up. Shelf after shelf after shelf of trays of dead birds, most with their original archaic Victorian era label written in spindly cursive attached to a leg. Unsurprisingly the ones that most stick in the mind were the lost species.