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Description: | Glasgow Police (preprinted on a white gummed label). Viatica Squirrel (dyed) 131 (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 sectioned fibres which appear to be guard hair and several fibres of under coat. This is a sample of hair from the viatica squirrel. Probably a furrier's term for the pelt of a rodent possibly the melanistic form of the Gray or Eastern Gray squirrel *Sciurus carolinensis*. Viatica means of or pertaining to the way and of the last rites. | 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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