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WITHIN the last thirty years or so their respective vacations happen to have called two able lovers of natural history in the direction of the Celestial Empire—Mr. Robert Swinhoe, from England, and the Père Armand David, a Frenchman. The simultaneous investigations of these two biologists have added immensely to our knowledge of a country whose fauna not long ago was thought to be in no way interesting, because the huge population had succeeded in extirpating all the indigenous species. How far from the truth such an assumption is, has been demonstrated by the researches of the two naturalists above mentioned, the lamented death of the former of whom, at the early age of forty-one years, we recorded last week.
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Robert Swinhoe, F.R.S . Nature 17, 35 (1877). https://doi.org/10.1038/017035a0
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