![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() While naturalists like Wallace were collecting specimens for scientific purposes, other Victorians, like Lionel Walter Rothschild, were doing so for the prestige and status of amassing personal natural history collections. In addition, Wallace’s 100-year-old specimens will also provide knowledge to the scientists of the future by acting as relics and records of centuries past. Wallace’s story also emphasizes how Victorian-era natural history collection was essential to the scientific development of biology and evolutionary theory at the time. Johnson writes about Victorian-era naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace’s expeditions and specimen collection many of his collected species would later end up in the Tring heist. In particular, it focuses on the Victorian era when natural specimen collection for both scientific research and personal collections was in vogue. Part One of the book focuses on some of the history in the relationship between humans and the natural world. ![]() After hearing about this strange heist, author Kirk Johnson becomes obsessed with getting to the bottom of the story and solving some of the crime’s remaining mysteries. On a June evening in 2009, 20-year-old Edwin Rist breaks into the British Natural History Museum at Tring and steals hundreds of dead bird skins from some of the most colorful and iridescent species in the collection. The following version of the book was used to create this study guide: Johnson, Kirk Wallace. ![]()
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