i read his contempory wallace's "Malay Archipelago" book
I remember in one chapter he shot about 50 orangutan out of their trees in a vain attempt to find a good specimen to mount that wasn't too fucked up from the fall or bullet wound. and he was one of the more enlightened and progressive victorian scientists of his day
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