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Harkness was born in Titusville, Pennsylvania.
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Ruth Harkness
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His widow Ruth, then living in New York, decided to complete the mission herself. Harkness traveled to Shanghai, and with the help of a Chinese-American explorer named Quentin Young, and Gerald Russell, a British naturalist, launched her own panda mission. After passing through Chongqing and Chengdu, the team arrived at a mountainous region, where, on 9 November 1936, they encountered and captured a nine-week-old panda cub.
The panda, which they named Su Lin after Young"s sister-in-law, was bottle-federal baby formula on the journey back to Shanghai and the United States.
The panda caused a great sensation in the American press and eventually ended up at the Brookfield Zoo in Chicago. Harkness brought back a second panda, Mei-Mei, before her death on July 20, 1947.
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