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Description: | Glasgow Police (preprinted on a white gummed label). Ring tailed Oppossum x130 (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 four bundles of fibres of guard hair and under coat. This sample of hair is probably from one of the sixteen species of Australian ringtail possums *Pseudocheiridae* , most probably from the common ringtail possum *Pseudocheirus. peregrinus*. There are no ring tailed American opossums *Didelphidae*. | 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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