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Andrew Smith made the acquaintance of the Ford family in 1821 when he was visiting farmers, urging them to provide him with specimens of interest. Young George Ford was suffering from a broken hip inflicted by a cow, an injury which left him permanently crippled, prompting Smith to take him back to
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in 1850, and became one of the foremost anatomists of his time. This institution, in its first thirty-five years of existence, published a large number of anatomical atlases. Ellis and Ford used the relatively new technique of
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Illustrations of the zoology of South Africa, consisting chiefly of figures and descriptions of the objects of natural history collected during an expedition into the interior of South Africa, in the years 1834, 1835, and
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Cape Town. While convalescing there he was encouraged to paint and draw Smith's specimens. He proved to be so proficient that in 1825 Smith recommended him to the newly founded
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in Cape Town, and later seconded him to the 1834–36 "Expedition for
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Gunther, A. E. (1972). "The original drawings of George Henry Ford".
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