Mammals
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Glasgow Museums has a collection of approximately 1,800 mammal specimens. These date from the early 1800s to the present.
This collection contains species from all over the world, covering most orders of mammals and ranging in size from tiny shrews to ‘Sir Roger’ the Asian elephant and two adult giraffes. Most of the collection is made up of mounted specimens, heads, skins, hair, skeletons, teeth, individual bones, antlers and tusks. Many of the more recent small mammals are freeze-dried and a small number of specimens are preserved in liquid. British mammals are well represented. There is also a good selection of non-British mammals, particularly marsupials, primates, deer and bovids, many of which came from E. H. Bostock of the Scottish Zoo.
The collection has excellent examples of taxidermy from well-known and early taxidermists, including Thomas Hall. There is also associated documentation relating to several of the collections, including notebooks from R. A. H. Coombes, photograph albums relating to James McNeil and big game hunting in Zambia and Zimbabwe, and a collection of glass-plate negatives of Clydesdale horses taken by A. Brown & Sons of Lanark.
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