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Description: | Glasgow Police (preprinted on a white gummed label). Hamster x33 (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 possibly four bundles of fibres which appear to be a mixture of the outer guard coat and under coat. The cross sections are difficult to find possibly because the coverslip was moved whilst the cut fibres were not properly set thus disrupting the bundles. This sample of hair is from a hamster probably the common hamster *Cricetus cricetus* N.B. the golden hampster *Mesocricetus auratus* was not known until 1839 when a single specimen was found and it was not until a pregnant female was discovered in Syria in 1930 and the offspring exported via Israel in 1931 that the species was found in Britain. It did not reach America until 1938. | 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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