Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
March 23, 1821
Primary Source Reference:
Peale Museum Accessions Book, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, p. 112
Additional Source Text:
"Zoological Specimen . . . prepared by Titian Peale, Assistant Naturalist, for the Exploring Expedition, and deposited in the Philadelphia Museum by Major S. H. Long. Maj. U.S. Eng[ineers pursuant to instructions of the Secretary of War." Titian Ramsay Peale executed a watercolor of badgers while engaged on the Long Expedition, presented to the Museum on 23 Mar 1821, pictured here. Peale Museum Accessions Book, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, p. 112
Notes:
Richard Harlan described this species in Fauna Americana: Being a Description of the Mammiferous Animals Inhabitating North America, pp. 57-58, citing male and female specimens in the Philadelphia Museum, Nos. 786 and 787 / https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/3194343
John D. Godman described the species and illustrated it with an engraving by G. B. Ellis after a drawing by C. A. Lesueur likely based on the specimen in the Museum in American Natural History, 1: 179-183 / https://hdl.handle.net/2027/nnc1.cu04828135?urlappend=%3Bseq=203%3Bowne…
Specimen Type:
Dead/preserved
Peale's Scientific Name:
Meles labradoria (Harlan's name)
Current Common Name:
American badger
Current Scientific Name
Taxidea taxus
