|
Date: |
|
Description: | Glasgow Police (preprinted on a white gummed label). Brown Bear 57 (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 two fibres which appear to be guard hair and three of under coat. This sample of hair is probably from the Eurasian brown bear *Ursus arctos arctos* however this is not universally accepted and the subspecies is often considered as synonymous with that of the grizzly *U. a. horriblis* and the Kodiac bear *U. a. middendorffi*. | 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 |
|
|