The assistant George knew as soon as he identified that the deer
was not Pudu puda OR Pudu mephistopheles that Dr. Buckland
was going to take credit for the discovery.
It had been that way for years: George did the field work and Dr.
Buckland would fearlessly display the specimen to the Royal Academy as his own
work.
Even though it probably meant the end of his partnership
with one of Britain’s premier naturalists, George couldn’t feel an ounce of
regret for replacing the exhibit animal with an entirely different specimen.
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