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"You will at once perceive," continued Professor Ichthyosaurus, "that the skull [indicating a human skull] before us belonged to some of the lower order of animals; the teeth are very insignificant, the power of the jaws trifling, and altogether it seems wonderful how the creature could have procured food."

Francis Trevelyan Buckland

Your theory is most excellent, and I shall endeavor to collect facts for you with a view to its elucidation.

Francis Trevelyan Buckland

Francis Trevelyan Buckland

Francis Trevelyan Buckland

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Born: December 17, 1826

Died: December 19, 1880 (aged 54)

Bio: Francis Trevelyan Buckland, better known as Frank Buckland, was an English surgeon, zoologist, popular author and natural historian. He was born in a reputed family of naturalists. After a brief career in medicine he took an interest in fishes and other matters.

Known for:

Curiosities of natural history (1857)
Curious men
Log-book of a Fisherman and Zoologist (1875)

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