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Thomas Huxley and the Return of the Rattlesnake Bones

The Guardian this week reported on the UK Natural History Museum’s efforts to repatriate a collection of  human bones, acquired by explorers in bygone years, to their original home with islanders in the Torres Straits. It’s not a piece I’d linger over save for the mention of H.M.S. Rattlesnake, a 19th century survey ship involved [...]

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