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Interview to our February AaRCTikTalks speaker Anna Penna

February 2025

Resolving the taxonomic puzzle of bush babies

“When I reached England in the spring of 1862, I found myself surrounded by a room full of packing-cases, containing the collections that I had from time to time sent home for my private use. These comprised nearly three thousand bird-skins, of about a thousand species; and at least twenty thousand beetles and butterflies, of about seven thousand species; besides some quadrupeds and landshells. A large proportion of these I had not seen for years; and in my then weak state of health, the unpacking, sorting, and arranging of such a mass of specimens occupied a long time.” (From Wallace’s 1869 Preface of his book The Malay Archipelago) [1].  

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