Lost 18th-century shell collection returns to English Heritage
Believed to have been lost for more than 40 years, an 'internationally important' 18th-century shell collection has been returned to English…
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Believed to have been lost for more than 40 years, an 'internationally important' 18th-century shell collection has been returned to English…
A "globally important" shell collection from the 18th century, thought to have been lost for more than 40 years, has resurfaced. The collection contains more…
Shells collected by Captain Cook’s crew were “miraculously” saved from a skip by a passing scientist after they were thrown away in the 1980s, it has emerged.
The remarkable collection was amassed before the explorer was killed by Hawaiian islanders in 1779. A passing marine biology lecturer, Dr John Buchanan, saved the seashells
Important collection rediscovered during house-clearing includes numerous rare species