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 | | Apparently because of his social and material advantages, and individual inclination, he did not "break" his own dogs; although Hawker, of all people, had he been so inclined, would have trained his own dogs, since, in his way, he was a free spirit. |
 | | Hawker provides "A List of Birds, etc. which are most commonly followed by Shooting sportsmen; alphabetically arranged, with their proper names, as selected by Bewick; their Latin and French names, as given by Linnaeus and Buffon; with general directions for getting access to them," pp. |
 | | The year after the publication of Hawker's ninth edition, Charles Louis Alphones Laveran (1845-1922) was born; as an army surgeon in Algiers, he discovered the parasite which causes malaria, and received the Nobel Prize, 1907; previous to this, malaria was endemic in Europe, although incidence was reduced through drainage schemes which brought wetlands under cultivation. |
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