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True story, I stuck some of his preserved birds in a freezer once (regular insect prevention).

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

brief summary: every one of those citations is a different thing where he lied, stole or faked something.

[–] Philharmonic3 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Right, but who is making those claims? How do we know they are credible?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Take my breakdown with a grain of salt, as I did not dig into all of it, owing to the quantity of citations. Picking some at random, I found a mix between sources contemporary to the time period and ones that are secondary. I did not check the relevancy of the wiki quite, this was just 15 minutes of snooping around.

This one was interesting as it claims it was minutes from a meeting of a contemporary society called the the American Philosophical Society.

[103] Ord, George (1840). "Minutes from the Stated Meeting, September 18 [1840]". Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society. 1: 272.

They still seem to be running to this day, and sound like they have a long history in the US. Not to say they are trustworthy, I know nothing about them.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

You're asking a stranger in the internet to do a whole lot of work for you.