The existence of the flightless great birds, which once lived in Scotland and were hunted to extinction in the 19th century, was not represented in the university’s massive collections of more than one million items.
For zoologists at Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery at Glasgow University, the Great Auk was a subject of much dismay.
The existence of the flightless great birds, which once lived in Scotland and were hunted to extinction in the 19th century, was not represented in the university’s massive collections of more than one million items.