Speaking of Botta, he was young doctor/naturalist on French voyage along the Pacific coast in 1820s...he found a number of new species inlcuding his pocket gopher and Anna's Hummingbird...Botta went on to great fame as diplomat/archaeologist, discovering the ruins of Nineveh in what is now Iraq...cabinet scientists back in Europe published the first scientific descriptions of the species he collected on that 1820s voyage...his natural history notes on the voyage were never published