Deceased, besides travelling several times through Abyssinia and Somaliland, mapping and collecting, and big game hunting, financed an expedition for excavating Tell Gheimir, an ancient and buried city of Chaldea, His generosity resulted in considerable benefit to the Ashmolean Museum of Oxford, which was presented with many thousand inscribed tablets ani museum objects.
In 1000, just before he was appointed correspondent for the "Morn-Ing Post" In the Boer War, he return. ed to England from the Sudan with specimens of 390 species of birds ant seventeen new species, all of which he presented to the British Musexm of Natural History—Reuter.
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