panther...or bear?

I unexpectedly found this at the Lilly today in a scrapbook of Rosa Eigenmann's publications. The full article wasn't included (it was fortuitously printed below the end of one of Eigenmann's scientific entries). The article is from "Proceedings of United States National Museum," titled, "On a Cinnamon Bear from Pennsylvania." Apparently the bear was purchased from the hunter for the National Museum because of its "peculiar color."

I thought it was funny that I found it this afternoon, considering our earlier class discussion. Highlights: "During all last summer in the back settlement near which I killed him, several of the men, women, and children were followed after night by what they called a panther. He would come very close and make an awful noise; sometimes he would be seen about dark in the buck field . . . I told the men there were no panthers in the county; that it must be something else. Undoubtedly it was this bear which followed them. . . . He was the most ferocious of all bears I have ever killed."

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