Deux Caryphylloides, de la Montagne de Randen près de Schaffouse, meme embarras que pirer les précedentes. Trans.: Two caryophylloides from the Randen Mountains near Schaffhaussen [Switzerland], but worse than the preceding

Object Status:

Unlocated

Primary Source Reference:

"Catalogue raisonné des morceaux d'Histoire Naturelle que j'ai l'honneur d'envoyer ci-joint à Monsieur du Simitierre," Du Simitière Scraps, Library Company of Philadelphia, no. 50, p. 2

Notes:

"The same confusion" refers to the nature of the body it came from. "The preceding" was an entry on belemnites.

Ovalastrea caryophylloides (formerly Astraea caryophylloides) is a species of fossil coral.

The donor was a man named Frey, of Basel, Switzerland. He may have met Du Simitière during miltary campaigns in Flanders. The men corresponded and exchanged natural history specimens in 1765 and 1766. Frey's covering letter for his shipment of fifty fossils and other natural history specimens was dated at Basel, 1 Oct 1766. Du Simitière Papers, Library Company of Philadelphia.