Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
November 1783
Primary Source Reference:
Du Simitière Memorandum Books, Library of Congress, fol. 69v
Notes:
Johann David Schoepf, or Schöpf (1752-1800) was a German botanist, zoologist, and physician. He was in America from 1777 to 1800, serving as the chief surgeon for the Ansbach regiment of Hessian troops and then, following the war, traveling around the new nation, including visits to Philadelphia. He recorded his visit to Du Simitière's Museum in July 1783 (Travels in the Confederation, 1783-1784, ed. Alfred J. Morrison [Philadelphia, 1911], pp. 85-86.
Du Simitière's Common Name:
Italian pine
Du Simitière's Scientific Name:
Pinea Linn.
Current Common Name:
Stone pine
Current Scientific Name
Pinus pinea Linnaeus
