A zoologist and author of The Elusive Monster, Dr Maurice Burton retired from the British Museum (Natural History) in 1958. Again and again, he reached for the ordinary animal. He projected Hugh Gray's 1933 lantern slides of Loch Ness and saw an otter rolling at the surface. He judged Arthur Grant's 1934 sketch consistent with an otter too. In the Illustrated London News in 1958 he backed the shoebill stork behind the kongamato reports. Then, in 1959, Tex Geddes and James Gavin each sent him written accounts of the Soay Beast.
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Zoologist and author of The Elusive Monster, who read the lantern slides as an otter
Zoologist who judged Grant's sketch consistent with an otter
Pro earlyZoologist who analysed the film and judged it an inert floating object
Pro earlyZoologist who backed the shoebill explanation in the Illustrated London News
Pro earlyZoologist who received both written accounts and published "The Soay Beast" in the Illustrated London News
Pro earlyZoologist who found debris at the site in June 1960
