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Melville Best Anderson and his wife Charlena (nÊe van Vleck). Anderson was one of his parents' two children who survived to adulthood; the other was a younger brother, Robert van Vleck Anderson. From ages eleven to fifteen, Anderson attended school in Germany. Upon returning to the
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Bedford Exploration of Eastern Asia collected over 2,700 individual mammals, resulting in many newly-described species. Anderson collected the
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