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en
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Publisher of text edition
Project Gutenberg
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Produced by The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net. (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)
Release date
2009-03-08
Rights
Public domain in the USA.

1834–1913
A Victorian scientist, banker, and politician, he helped make archaeology and natural history exciting for a wide public audience. His books on prehistoric life, insects, and the pleasures of everyday observation made him one of the best-known popular writers of his time.
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