Where have all our treasured museum artefacts gone to?
[BorneoPost] - 02/21/2025
IT is believed that the British naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace had inspired Rajah Charles Brooke in 1860 to establish a museum for Sarawak. Later in 1878, naturalists Beccari, Doria and Hornaday had encouraged him to ask Brooke’s officers to start collecting specimens throughout the state. A (…)
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