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Bengal tiger

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = TD,Use For = Panthera tigris bengalensis ; Panthera tigris tigris ; Royal Bengal tiger

Found in 1 Collection or Record:

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Carl Hagenbeck (incomplete), 14 December 1900

 Item
Identifier: Coll-14/9/6/36
Scope and Contents

Hagenbeck sends Ewart details and photographs (not present) of his cross breeding experiments with a lion and a tiger born at the Hagenpark in Hamburg in 1897. He is also attempting to cross a female leopard with a Bengal tiger.

The latter part of the letter is not present.

Dates: 14 December 1900