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  • Incidentally, the Hinton who named the Scilly shrew is Martin Alister Campbell Hinton (1883-1961), former Keeper of Zoology at London’s Natural History Museum, and perhaps best known nowadays as possible perpetrator of the Piltdown hoax.

    Archive 2006-10-01 Darren Naish 2006

  • Incidentally, the Hinton who named the Scilly shrew is Martin Alister Campbell Hinton (1883-1961), former Keeper of Zoology at London’s Natural History Museum, and perhaps best known nowadays as possible perpetrator of the Piltdown hoax.

    The first new European mammal in 100 years? You must be joking Darren Naish 2006

  • Not a few of the clan, removed elsewhither, would have smiled degenerate, and with scorn in their amusement, at the idea of Alister's clinging to any supposed reality in the position he could claim.

    What's Mine's Mine — Complete George MacDonald 1864

  • Not a few of the clan, removed elsewhither, would have smiled degenerate, and with scorn in their amusement, at the idea of Alister's clinging to any supposed reality in the position he could claim.

    What's Mine's Mine — Volume 1 George MacDonald 1864

  • A fit of coughing here broke M'Alister's discourse; but, after drinking from a cup beside him, he put aside John Broom's remonstrances with a dignified movement of his hand, and continued, --

    Tales from Many Sources Vol. V Various

  • A fit of coughing here broke M'Alister's discourse; but, after drinking from a cup beside him, he put aside John Broom's remonstrances with a dignified movement of his hand, and continued, –

    Lob Lie-by-the-Fire: or The Luck of Lingborough 1873

  • The Colonel, Miss M'Alister's father, had a good estate, of which his daughter was the heiress, and as I fished her out of the water upon

    The Fitz-Boodle Papers William Makepeace Thackeray 1837

  • You look all the better for a breath of country air, "was Mrs. M'Alister's nervously-spoken answer.

    Miss Merivale's Mistake Henry Clarke 1880

  • TROMSOE, Norway Reuters/Alister Doyle - Indigenous Sami peoples in the Arctic may have found a way to help their reindeer herds cope with climate change: more castration.

    Castrated Reindeer Adapt Better To Climate Change Joanna Zelman 2011

  • TROMSOE, Norway Reuters/Alister Doyle - Indigenous Sami peoples in the Arctic may have found a way to help their reindeer herds cope with climate...

    Castrated Reindeer Adapt Better To Climate Change Joanna Zelman 2011

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