Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
July 1783
Primary Source Reference:
Du Simitière Memorandum Books, Library of Congress, fol. 68v
Notes:
The abacatuaia is now Alectis ciliaris (Bloch, 1787), the African pompano. Du Simitière cites Willem Piso (1611-1678) and Georg Marggraf (1610-1644), Historia naturalis Brasiliae (Leiden, 1648), p. 161, pictured here. See also https://www.fishbase.se/FieldGuide/FieldGuideSummary.php?genusname=Alec…
The donor, Timothy Matlack (1736-1829), was a brewer and beer bottler who emerged as a popular and powerful leader in the American Revolutionary War, was Secretary of Pennsylvania during the war, and a delegate to the Second Continental Congress in 1780.
Specimen Type:
Dead/preserved
