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Description: | Glasgow Police (preprinted on a white gummed label). Opposum Australian x 29 (written on the label). MANU [Glasgow Police] [first half 20th century] [Glasgow] [Scotland] One of 313 reference specimens of animal hair representive of a collection which originally encompassed at least 176 species. The cover slip is square. There are six bundles of fibres of guard hair and under coat. There is no Australian opossum presumably the hair sample is from one of the diprodont marsupial possums belonging to the *Phalangeridae, Pseudocheiridae, Burramyidae* or Petauridae*, and posibly the common brushtail possum *Trichosurus vulpecula* | License: | http://www.hmag.gla.ac.uk/spirit/rights/ | Publisher: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Rights holder: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Subjects: | SCIENTIFIC COLLECTION : | Source: | Hunterian Museum | Creator: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Identifier: | http://www.huntsearch.gla.ac.uk/cgi-bin/... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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