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Description: | Cuba From May 2007, on show in Legacy display in the Hunter Room at the Hunterian Museum.
These shells are of the tropical snail Polymita (Helix) picta. According to James Laskey, in his 1813 publication on The Hunterian Museum, they were purchased at the sale of the Portland collection in 1786, three years after William's death. Their presence provides evidence that Hunter's collection was added to in the period after his death but before their transfer to Scotland. The Duchess of Portland, the original owner of the shells, possessed the finest collection of shells in England and was an acquaintance of Hunter.
Laskey mistakenly gives the locality of the shells as Jamaica; the genus Polymita is in fact endemic to Cuba. | 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: | MOLLGASTROPROSO : HELICIDAE : ER_LEGACY : PULMONATA : Polymita picta : | 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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