Johann Franz Julius von Haast, 1822–1887
Geologist and museum director Julius Haast collected quantities of moa remains in a swamp at Glenmark, Canterbury, in 1865. He exchanged the bones for other material to build up the Canterbury Museum’s collections.
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Walter Baldock Durrant Mantell, 1820–1895
Walter Mantell sent moa bones to Richard Owen, superintendent of the natural history department of the British Museum, in the late 1840s and early 1950s. Visiting Owen in London in 1856, Mantell helped to reconstruct the largest moa skeleton yet recovered, Dinornis giganteus.
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