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Description: | Glasgow Police (preprinted on a white gummed label). American Black Bear x54 (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 three bundles of fibres which appear to be outer guard hairs and under coat. This sample of hair is from the American black bear, North American black bear, Kermodes or Glacier bear *Ursus americanus* of which there are up to eighteen recognised subspecies including the Kermodes bear *U. a. kermodeii*, the blue or glacier bear *U. a. emmonsi* and *altifrontalis*, the cinnamon bear *U. a. cinnammomum*, the Eastern black bear *U. a. americanus* and the Newfoundland black bear *U. a. hamiltoni* | 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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