One of the Eccentric People: William Buckland 1784-1856
He was famous with two things: he was the first man, who describes the whole details about a fossil and he was a very eccentric person, when the issue comes to animals and food. He loved natural history. This caused tohis house to become a zoo. He had almost every kind of animal in his house. He was eating his animals continuosly and serving his guests. He said, he wanted to eat every kind of animal. He also mentioned, the worst tastes of animals, that he had eaten were bluebottle flies and mole. His guests said, her served panther, crocodile and mouse. A famous storyteller said "There was a heart of a French King (Louis XIV) at Nuneham in a silver casket. Hebwas talking about itand said "I have eaten a lot of strange things, but i have never eaten a King's heart." before anyonecould stop him, he 'gobbled up' (took and ate) and the heart was gone forever.
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