6 SCIENCE RED IN TOOTH AND CLAW
med Oakingcredit for one of o a bitter dispute ist over tfor a teeth.
ate to persecute t ty to blackball a young man named Robert Grant . Grant oniso discover to tomical specimens o conduct o pursue o an understandably dispirited obscurity.
But no one suffered more from Otentions tragic Gideon Mantell. After losing ice,and most of ion, Mantell moved to London. teful yearin glory for naming and identifying tell errible accident. , greangled in t a gallop overroug left , crippled, and in ch a spine damaged beyond repair.
Capitalizing on Mantell’s enfeebled state, O about systematically expungingMantell’s contributions from t Mantell for tell continued to try to dooriginal researc Oy to ensure t most of ed. In 1852, unable to bear any more pain or persecution, Mantell took to t orof terian Museum.
But ts quite finiser Mantell’s deatingly uncableobituary appeared in terary Gazette. In it Mantell omist ributions to paleontology ed by a “ of exactknouary even removed ted it instead to Cuvier and Oyle ural sciences doubted thorship.
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