DOVER
Status Vertical mount
Source Franz-Joseph Land 1894 – 97
Acquired Shot
by Dr. Reginald Koettlitz (1860-1916) in Franz-Joseph Land whilst serving
as medical officer botanist and geologist to the Jackson-Harmsworth expedition
to Spitzbergen and the Arctic 1894 – 97 - ship named the‘Windward’.
Until 1960 it remained in the London Road (Dover) surgery of his brother,
Dr.Maurice Koettlitz
Donor Koettlitz family
Preparation
Current location Dover Museum
Notes one
of 60 shot during the expedition. Before its time at his brother’s
surgery it was placed in a shop window to advertise his series of lectures
in Dover town hall and Dover College. It was later converted for use as
a lamp stand and the light-fixing stub can still be seen clutched in its
right paw. Koettlitz went on to serve as surgeon to Captain Scott’s
Discovery South Polar Expedition 1901-04
It has been used as the logo of the Museum since about 1979