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Hornaday's Letter to the Museum
Hornaday wrote the letter in 1887 when he was still just a young taxidermist. He played a big role in helping to save them, lots of other species too. They found a rusty box buried in the fake ground. Inside was a letter from Hornaday written to his future successor at the museum. It said: "I have now stopped the killing, they're all gone"
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