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Description: | Originally this dodo was brought to Europe by Dutch sailors during the 15th Century. It became part of the collection of John Tredescant, a famous traveler and naturalist, and in 1683 it was donated to Oxford University. During the 1700s the specimen, by then decaying, was accidentally thrown into the fire during a clean up - luckily a foot and the dodo's head were salvaged. A cast of the head was presented to the Natural History Society of Northumbria in 1841.
, Form: cast | Source: | Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums | Identifier: | emu.ecatalogue.vertebratezoology.27882 | Go to resource |
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