Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
May 26, 1791
Primary Source Reference:
Dunlap's American Daily Advertiser (Philadelphia), 26 May 1791
Additional Source Text:
"This curious animal is not yet at the Museum but is daily expected."
" . . . the dung she drops is more like a Horses than such as belong to a Cow, it is in hard & partly in round lumps, not caused by bad health for she [is] quite hearty, and this has been the appearance of it ever since she came to the Museum." Selected Papers, 2, part 1: 8
Gazette of the United States (Philadelphia), 17 Feb 1795 records: "The Cow with 5 Legs, 6 feet, and two tails, which was kept at the Museum for some years alive, is also preserved. But as such objects are not agreeable to the sight of every one, that limb is covered with a curtain."
Also listed in the General Advertiser (Philadelphia), 26 May 1791; Independent Gazetteer (Philadelphia), 28 May 1791; Osborne's New-Hampshire Spy, 8 Jun 1791; and Maryland Gazette (Annapolis), 9 June 1791
Notes:
The donor was from Maryland.
