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Peterhead bear

PETERHEAD
Status Horizontal mount.
Source
Acquired 1877
Donor Captain David Gray of the SS Eclipse
Preparation
Current location Arbuthnot Museum
Notes Peterhead Sentinel, 22 August 1877 "AN ARCTIC BEAR FOR THE MUSEUM.-- We note, with pleasure, that Captain David Gray, s.s. Eclipse, has kindly presented to the Arbuthnot Museum the skin of a large-sized Arctic bear. The same has, by order of the Magistrates, been stuffed and set up, and is now on exhibition at the Museum".