Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
By 1826
Primary Source Reference:
John D. Godman, American Natural History. Part I. Mastology, 3 vols. (Philadelphia, 1826-1828), 1: 68-70 / https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/49165297
Notes:
"This Bat is nearly four and a-half inches long, and was common in the vicinity of Engineer Encampment, where the expedition to the Rocky Mountains wintered. Mr. Thomas Nuttall. the justly distinguished botanist, observed it also at Council Bluffs. A specimen captured near Philadelphia, was presented to the Philadelphia museum, by the late professor [Benjamin Smith] Barton."
Thomas Say's description was published in Edwin James, Account of an Expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains, Performed in the Years 1819 and '20, by Order of the Hon. J.C. Calhoun, Sec'y of War: Under the Command of Major Stephen H. Long. From the Notes of Major Long, Mr. T. Say, and other Gentlemen of the Exploring Party, 2 vols. (Philadelphia, 1823), 1: 167-168 / https://archive.org/details/accountofexpedit01jame/page/166/mode/2up
Specimen Type:
Dead/preserved
