WCUU Affiliated Panda Specimens, 1919-1941
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Title
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WCUU Affiliated Panda Specimens, 1919-1941
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Identifier
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DS_0014
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Description
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This pie chart breaks down the WCUU affiliated panda specimens in major US museums by donor.
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Commentary
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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.
This pie chart shows that David Crockett Graham was the most prolific panda specimen provider, the source of 71% or 26 specimens given to the NMNH from 1929 to 1934, plus the two live pandas he captured in 1941 after they died. Next in line was the Dean Sage Expedition, which contributed 20% of the specimens to the AMNH. The Sages became members of the Advisory Board for WCUU after their expedition and they later financed the acquisition of Pandora and Pan for the Bronx Zoo.
Although Floyd Tangier Smith was not a missionary, he kept all of his live pandas at WCUU and was generally supported by the missionaries there. Joseph Milner Goldblatt had been a missionary briefly between 1912 and 1918. There is no record of how he acquired the panda skin, but it was the first to attain a modicum of interest in the US.
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Creator
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Cory Willmott
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Date Created
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2023-09-02
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Provenance
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Original research.
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Publisher
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SIUE
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Record Date
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2025-12-27
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Contributor
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Cory Willmott
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Type
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Pie Chart
Table of Live Pandas, 1936-1953
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