Word: civet
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...lately touted U.S. substitute is the fixative musk, which formerly came only from Asiatic deer and Abyssinian civet cats. Two chemists at Yale and Louisiana State claim to have extracted musk from the glands of the common muskrat (one-third of an ounce of distilled musk from 175 animals). Du Pont also makes a synthetic musk called Astrotone. †Pronounced Lesko...
...Musk, Civet & Ambergris...
...species of Panamanian civet cat called by the Chiriqui Indians the "Hoo-Hoo-Nah" was named Bassaricyon pauli by the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences after its discoverer, Amateur Explorer Anthony Joseph Drexel Paul Jr., Harvard classmate & friend of Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr., whose Philadelphia banking family have been generous Academy patrons...
Objects acquired by the National Gallery included portraits of General & Mrs. William Tecumseh Sherman and a bronze entitled Panther Surprising Civet Cat. During the year 130,323 Freer gallery visitors went in by the front entrance. Twenty-three very special people went in by the South Entrance on Mondays, on which day the gallery is closed to the public...
Madagascar also produces the little fossa (Cryptoprocta ferox), a very aggressive, weasel-like kind of civet, remarkable as the relict of another...