Odd People from History (pt. 1)

[carmelrain]

so reading through a book borrowed from a friend called "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson (Author of "A Walk in the Woods") and I was reading on the geologist of history...rather interesting...not... and came across this person, one Reverend William Buckland, whom Bryson refers to as "a charming oddity" and tells of a rather interesting hobby of his.

"Almost inevitably, he became the leading authority on coprolites-fossilized feces-and had a table made entirely out of his collection of specimens"

eww...