This gained Agricola much opinion, who […] had made such early progress into laborious […] enterprises.

The doctor was struck off the medical register for professional misconduct.

In 1843, with references from Owen, Gray and Waterhouse, he came to work at the Earl of Derby's menagery, aviary and museum.

On one table were Indian cabinets, wrought in ivory, ebony, tortoise-shell, and amber; on another were the exquisite porcelain of Dresden and Sèvres; a third was heaped with gold and silver stuffs; a fourth, with the colours of the rainbow, in embroidered taffetas; close beside were perfumed gloves, and the rich ribands of Lyons, and velvets from Genoa fit for the mantle of a Queen