Panda Specimens in USA Museums, 1919-1941

Item

Title

Panda Specimens in USA Museums, 1919-1941

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).

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.

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.

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,

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Datasets

Media

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