The Specimen Hunters (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Specimen Hunters Enjoying the enormous endowment that it did, the Occidental University could afford to do things on a grand scale. Accordingly, when it was decided to make the department of Natural History especially rich in examples of the wild life of the Orient, the authorities considered that the best way to accomplish this would be to send the head of that department to obtain personally what was sought. Professor Orde received the commission with somewhat mixed feelings. The novelty of the idea, the romance of it, and the inevitable spice of danger appealed strongly to his adventurous spirit. Yet he loved the daily routine of his work in the class-room and laboratory, and felt loath to have it broken in upon for a lengthened period. There was also another cause for hesitancy on his part. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.