Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons in United Kingdom

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Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons
Type	museum
Address	38-43 Lincolns Inn Fields
Zip-code	WC2A 3PE
Place	London
Country	United Kingdom
Website	Website
Telephone	+442074053474
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Zoological department
Elephant department
Record history
History of updates	2021-07-09

Latest document update	2021-07-09 10:58:05
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Description

Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons, located at 38-43 Lincolns Inn Fields, in London, United Kingdom .

Taxidermy specimens

Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons has in its collection 1 elephantine museum specimens with records in this database:

(Measurements of teeth and body parts follow the system described by Maglio (1973; P = plate number, L = length, W = width, H = height, LF = lamellar frequency)

Chunee Destroyed by Bombings during WWII
Accession nr: . Received: ♂ Chunee
Species: Asian elephant (Elephas maximus)
* Born at West Bengal Unspecified location † Dead 1826-03-01 at Exeter Exchange menagerie
Death: killed Death reason: Chunee was hit by 152 musket balls, but refused to die. Chunee was finished off by a keeper with a harpoon or sword
Mounted 1826-00-00
††† Destroyed 1942-00-00 by Bombings during WWII

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Koehl, Dan (2025). Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons, Elephant Encyclopedia. Available online at https://www.elephant.se/location2.php?location_id=3317. (archived at the Wayback machine)

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