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New blog: The 1905 ascent of Mount Tahan (Malaysia) and fate of the bird collection by John James Wilson


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New blog: The 1905 ascent of Mount Tahan (Malaysia) and fate of the bird collection by John James Wilson

Was the Federated Malay States Museums expedition the first to reach the summit of Mount Tahan, the highest peak in Peninsular Malaysia? And what happened to the expeditions’ bird collection?

By John-James Wilson, Curator of Vertebrate Zoology, World Museum, National Museums Liverpool

Read the full story here.

Photograph of boats being pulled up rapids in the Sungai Tahan (identified by Lin Yancheng as Lata Berkoh, a popular bathing spot today) by L. Wray Jnr. From the “Journal of the Federated Malay States Museum, Volume 3”. 1908. Public Domain.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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