Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
March 1779
Primary Source Reference:
Du Simitière Memorandum Books, Library of Congress, fol. 37v
Notes:
This specimen was the brain stone coral.
The donor, Charles Logan (1754-1794), was the son of William Logan and grandson of James Logan. He owned a plantation in Virginia and in 1788, after promising to manumit nine of his slaves in Pennsylvania, took them there and sold them. See George William Van Cleve, A Slaveholders' Union: Slavery, Politics, and the Constitution in the Early American Republic (Chicago, 2010), p. 82.
Specimen Type:
Dead/preserved
Du Simitière's Common Name:
Brain stone
Current Common Name:
Brain coral
Current Scientific Name
Meandrina cerebrum
