Museums are no strangers to controversial exhibits and questionable collection practices.
But in 1874, when two big burly blokes hustled a man out of the Australian Museum and chucked him out onto the street, it marked the end of a particularly spicy chapter of the institution's history.
The evictee was a zoologist named Gerard Krefft. And how he came to be booted out of the museum he'd headed for a decade is a story of scientific squabbles, enormous egos, and Charles Darwin himself.
