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“... established that nobody had seen a great auk for years.In The Last of Its Kind, the anthropologist Gísli Pálsson uses the great auk to consider the ways in which Victorian scientists thought about extinction, relying especially on Wolley and Newton’s unpublished notebooks. Wolley, the older of the two, was a gentleman collector. After a privileged and ...”

“... In the spring​ of 1801 a young man called Hans Jonathan left the mansion in Copenhagen where he worked as a slave. Going for a walk was allowed: despite his status, he had a degree of autonomy within the walls of the city, then a thriving port with around one hundred thousand inhabitants. But this time he didn’t return. His owner, Henrietta Cathrina Schimmelmann, reported his escape to the police, claiming he had stolen money from her son ...”