Dear Wombwell fans,
I wrote up the details as could be discovered at the time on this amazing
exhibit (now in south Lancashire) of a Tiger & Snake from Bullock's Egyptian
Hall Museum. The article was published in 1980:
One of those dreadful combats - a surviving display from William Bullock's
London Museum. Museums Journal 79(4): 172-175.
Bullock's collection was very early in the nineteenth century and whereas
it's exhibits are of considerable interest, not least in the history of
taxidermy, I don't feel it has any direct relevance to the Wombwell story?
There are no original archives in Lancashire relating to it as this cased
exhibit was transferred there from Norwich in c.1930.
Are there any answers yet as to why lions were often called Wallace?
Geoff Hancock,
Curator of Entomology
Hunterian Museum (Zoology)
Graham Kerr Building, University of Glasgow,
Glasgow, G12 8QQ,
Scotland, UK.
Tel: 0141 330 2194
Fax: 0141 330 5971
http://www.hunterian.gla.ac.uk/
http://www.huntsearch.gla.ac.uk/
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