Why did Allan Octavian Hume build up a vast collection of bird specimens?
For personal entertainment
To sell them
For a magnum opus on the birds of India
To set up a museum
Answer
Allan Octavian Hume built up a vast collection of bird specimens for a magnum opus on the birds of India. This opus was to be titled The Fauna of British India. Hume was a keen ornithologist and naturalist and had a passion for birds. He believed that the study of birds would help to better understand the natural world and its diversity.
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