Lord Lionel Walter Rothschild (1868-1937),British zoologist,riding on the back of a giant tortoise. Rothschild,heir to a large fortune,founded his zoological museum in 1892,at Tring,Hertfordshire,UK. With tens of thousands to millions of specimens of birds,insects,mammals and other animals,it became the largest zoological collection ever assembled by a private individual. Rothschild bequeathed it to the Trustees of the British Museum,and it is now known as the Natural History Museum at Tring | |
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Credit: | Science Photo Library / Natural History Museum, London |
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