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Description: | D'Arcy Thompson's natural history museum once boasted the largest collection of Arctic zoology in the world. Since the collection was split up in the 1950s only a small part of this now remains, but it still includes a large number of specimens brought back to D'Arcy by the Dundee whaling ships, some collected by his assistant Alexander Rodger who accompanied the whalers on two voyages. There are also specimens obtained by D'Arcy on his own Arctic expeditions to the Bering Sea as part of the international fur seal inquiry of 1896-7. The collection includes some mammals including skeletons or skulls of fur seal, sea otter, musk ox and brown bear; dried specimens including Bryozoa, and many spirit jars including isopods, sea urchins, lobsters, starfish, sea cucumbers and sea squirts. There are also several beluga whale embryos, a baby whale skeleton, two narwhal tusks and some examples of barnacles and lice from whales. Ships from which specimens derived include Eclipse, Esquimaux, Diana, Active and Terra Nova | Format: | skulls mounted specimens stuffed animals taxidermy skeletons spirit specimens dried specimens | Subjects: | Zoology | Source: | University of Dundee | Address: | 5-7 Hawkhill Place,
DD1 4HN | Creator: | D'Arcy Thompson, Alexander Rodger, Dundee whalers | Contributor: | Accessioned by Museum Services from 1995 | Identifier: | DUNUC-CLD079 | Language: | en-GB | Relation: | DUNUC-CLD000 | Format: | skulls mounted specimens stuffed animals taxidermy skeletons spirit specimens dried specimens |
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