quid pro quo<\/em> arrangement, rather than through his own scientific endeavors.\u201d <\/p>\nThylacines have been extinct since 1936, but they were once the largest marsupial carnivores of the modern era. Europeans first settled in Tasmania in 1803 and viewed the tigers as a threat, blaming the animals for killing their sheep. The settlers didn’t view the Aboriginal population much more favorably, and there were inevitable conflicts from the settlers displacing the indigenous people and from the increased competition for food. In 1830, a farming corporation placed the first bounties on thylacines, with the government instituting its own bounty in 1888. (Ashby writes that the true sheep killers were the dogs the settlers bred to hunt kangaroos.)<\/p>\n\n Advertisement <\/span> <\/p>\n<\/aside>\nMeanwhile, the so-called “Black War” between settlers and natives led to a state of martial law that “enabled settlers to kill Aboriginal people without punishment,” per Ashby. “After 1830, they were rewarded for doing so.” A Christian missionary named George Augustus Robinson embarked on what was supposed to be a less violent effort (the so-called “Friendly Mission”) to relocate the Aboriginal population to Gun Carriage Island in the Bass Strait. But the island had insufficient resources to support the traditional lifestyle, and most of those who relocated suffered disease and death. Robinson was nonetheless handsomely rewarded for his efforts with government land grants and cash.<\/p>\n
Born in England, Allport was still a baby when his parents relocated to Tasmania, where his father established himself as among the colony’s most distinguished solicitors. Young Morton followed in his father’s footsteps and became a partner in the same law firm, but he also had a fascination with natural history. He was especially interested in fish breeding and the practice of introducing nonnative species to “improve” local ecosystems (acclimatization). Allport himself introduced English species such as tench, perch, and water lilies to Tasmania, and published 15 papers with the RST. Otherwise, however, his publications amounted to three short articles and a brief note on local fossils between 1866 and 1968.<\/p>\n
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\n\n\n <\/span><\/p>\n\n Morton Allport in 1854. <\/p>\n
\n <\/span>\n\n <\/span><\/p>\n\n An 1869 trophy photograph of a hunted Tasmanian tiger (thylacine). <\/p>\n
\n <\/span>\n\n <\/span><\/p>\n\n Excerpt from Allport’s 1872 letter to craniologist Joseph Barnard Davis. The highlighted text reads, \u201cI can assure you that I took no small trouble to see that the bones were disinterred from only from a sp[ot?] where none but Aborigines were buried.\u201d <\/p>\n
\n <\/span>\n\n <\/span><\/p>\n\n The five thylacine skins Morton Allport sent to the University Museum of Zoology, Cambridge, in 1869 and 1871. <\/p>\n
\n <\/span>\n\n <\/span><\/p>\n\n Jack Ashby with the University Museum of Zoology thylacine skins, sent from Allport in 1869 and 1871. <\/p>\n
\n <\/span>“It is curious, then, that he received so many accolades from elite scientific institutions,” Ashby wrote in his paper. He turned to the man’s correspondence for insight into how he built his scientific reputation out of a relatively sparse publication record. According to Ashby, in at least one letter to a former teacher, Allport explicitly declared his expectation of a quid pro quo<\/em> for supplying specimens, particular thylacines and Aboriginal human remains, which were increasingly in demand as their respective numbers diminished.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/br><\/br><\/br><\/p>\n
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