Carl Glass of bier
See also: Glass of bier (homonymy)
Carl Bock is a Naturaliste and an exploring Swedish, born in 1849 with Oslo and died in 1932.
It grows with Oslo and share in Great Britain at 19 years. He works initially in Grimsby before coming to London. It with the chance to be able to attend the aristocratic and scientific circles capital. It makes then the meeting of Arthur Hay, ninth marquis de Tweeddale (1824-1878) which then directs the zoological Société of London. This ornithologist has zoological rich person collections. In order to enrich them, it sends Carl Bock in the Malay Archipelago in 1878. A few months later, its voyage to the Timor is cancelled following the death of its silent partner.
With Batavia, it meets the governor-general of the colony, Van Lansberghe, which charges it with leaving to visit the south-east of Borneo. Up to that point its inhabitants, the Dayak S had vigorously prohibited the entry of their territory to Europeans and had a reputation of cannibals. It is accompanied by the sultan by Kutai. It is during this voyage that Bock discovers the Orang-outan. It publishes the account of its voyage in Dutch in 1881.
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