The West first learned of the giant panda on 11 March 1869, when the French missionary Armand David[59] received a skin from a hunter. The first Westerner known to have seen a living giant panda is the German zoologist Hugo Weigold, who purchased a cub in 1916. Kermit and Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., became the first Westerners to shoot a panda, on an expedition funded by the Field Museum of Natural History in the 1920s. In 1936, Ruth Harkness became the first Westerner to bring back a live giant panda, a cub named Su Lin[71] which went to live at the Brookfield Zoo in Chicago. In 1938, five giant pandas were sent to London.[72][73] Activities such as these were halted because of wars; for the next half of the century, the West knew little of giant pandas.