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He was born in London on July 25, 1849.
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He was born in London on July 25, 1849.
He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge University.
From 1874 to 1882 he was a member of the Geological Survey of India, and in 1884 he prepared, for the British Museum, a ten-volume catalogue of the fossils of mammals, fish, reptiles, and birds in the collection. In 1893 he went to Argentina to study the South American fossils in the La Plata Museum.
Among his many books were Phases of Animal Life (1892), The Deer of All Lands (1898), The Wild Oxen, Sheep and Goats of All Lands, Living and Extinct (1898), The Great and Small Game of India, Burma and Tibet (1900), The Sportsman's British Book (1908), and The Ox and Its Kindred and the Sheep and Its Cousins (1912).
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