Punch,  35 (1858), 105.

A Monster

Anon

Genre:

News-Commentary, Drollery

Subjects:

Zoology, Monstrosities, Taxonomy, Animal Behaviour


    Discusses a report in the Banffshire Journal describing an attack on a boy by an animal that appeared to be a cross between a polecat and a domestic cat—a species that Punch thinks is a zoological impossibility.



© Science in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical Project, Universities of Leeds and Sheffield, 2005 - 2020

Printed from Science in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical: An Electronic Index, v. 4.0, The Digital Humanities Institute <http://www.sciper.org> [accessed ]