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Description: | Glasgow Police (preprinted on a white gummed label). Rabbit Angora 101 (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 sectioned fibres which appear to be guard hair and several fibres of undercoat. The internal structure is most interesting the undercoat has a doubled helix and the guard hairs a quadrupled helx ratherb than the strait one normal to most hair. This is a sample of hair from the domestic form of the European rabbit *Oryctolagus cuniculus* | 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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