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Humpback whale on display, Aberdeen, 1884
336 The carcase of a whale stranded in the estuary of the Tay was taken to Aberdeen to be exhibited in an enclosure on the Inches near the Goods Station. The arrival of this monster came to the attention of John Struther, Chair of Anatomy at Aberdeen University, who took the whale back to Marschal College to skin and eventually put together an articulated skeleton which now reposes in Dundee Museum. Beached whale
337 Beached whale. The figure is believed to be that of John Struthers, Chair of Anatomy at Aberdeen University. |