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I HAVE read Dr. Ball's account of this subject in the issue of NATURE for February 23, 1893, and beg leave to call attention to the fact that the University of Cambridge possesses the skeleton and the stuffed skin of an adult hybrid between a lion and a tigress. I am able to supply the following information (which I have verified so far as it was possible) with regard to this specimen from a contemporary MS., entitled “Notice of the Lion-tiger which died in Cambridge, March 1833,” by J. B. Melson, then an Undergraduate at Trinity College. This MS. no doubt contains the substance of a paper by Mr. Melson, which was communicated by Dr. Haviland to the Cambridge Philosophical Society, May 6, 1833. The paper was unfortunately not printed in the Transactions of the Society.
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HARMER, S. Lion-Tiger Hybrids. Nature 47, 413–414 (1893). https://doi.org/10.1038/047413c0
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