Panda Specimens in USA Museums, 1919-1941

Item

Title
Panda Specimens in USA Museums, 1919-1941 See all items with this value
Identifier
DS_0013
Description
This pie chart shows the percentage of specimens in major American museums by whether or not the pandas were affiliated with the West China Union University (WCUU). See all items with this value
Commentary
Pie chart based on analysis of specimen collections in the American Museum of Natural History, Field Museum of Natural History and National Museum of Natural History. It shows that 2/3 (64%) of the specimens were affiliated with WCUU, with only 18% unaffiliated and another 18% with unknown affiliation.

Those that were unaffiliated include specimens donated by Jack Young from his various expeditions, and Ruth Harkness's pandas that died at the Brookfield Zoo. See all items with this value
Creator
Cory Willmott
Date Created
2023-09-02
Relation
Table of Live Pandas, 1936-1953
Is Part Of
Panda Specimens in Major American Museums, 1919-1941
Provenance
Original research. See all items with this value
Access Rights
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Publisher
SIUE
Record Date
2025-12-27
Contributor
Cory Willmott
Type
Pie Chart
References
AMNH Vertebrate Zoology Collection Database, Ailuropoda melanoleuca (downloaded 2023-09-02).
https://emu-prod.amnh.org/db/emuwebamnh/index.php, downloaded 2023-09-02
FMNH Zoological Collections, Ailuropoda melanoleuca (downloaded 2023-09-02).
https://collections-zoology.fieldmuseum.org/taxonomy/310373
NMNH Mammals Collection - Ailuropoda melanoleuca (downloaded 2023-09-02).
https://collections.nmnh.si.edu/search/mammals/?ark=ark:/65665/32e8012e6b6d64c2fa6c3d03da88a3cc9,
Media
WCUU Affiliation.png
Resource class
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