Hugh Horton Hargreaves

Thanks to the nepotistic influence of his brother, the leader of the HMS Badger Expedition, Captain Charles Hargreaves RN, Hugh Horton Hargreaves spent more than a year in the archipelago studying the fauna.
On his return to London he published of his Theory of Selective Evolution, which was based on his observations of the ways in which the isolated animals of the archipelago had developed, seemingly in a response to the environment. The publication of his Theory of Selective Evolution caused a furore, and ultimately led to his incarceration in Bedlam.
Hargreaves stated that he had established that all species descended over time from common ancestors,and proposed the theory that this branching pattern of resulted from a process that he called selective evolution.

In the face of opposition from theologists and the scientific establishment, Hargreaves became increasingly paranoid, and made the rash decision to bolster his theory by including references to non existent species. His detailed fabrications of the habits of such invented creatures as Hargreaves sea-otter and Hargreaves Walrus make fascinating reading, but ultimately detracted from the scientific value of his actual work.

One lasting testimony to Hargreaves' important work on Tamba- Tamba is the large number of previously unclassified animals that now bear the prefix 'Hargreaves'.