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The trunk fishes

Object Status:

Unlocated

Accession Date:

September 1777

Primary Source Reference:

Du Simitière Memorandum Books, Library of Congress, fol. 25v

Additional Source Text:

In one of eleven "white flint bottles containing in Spirit a variety of reptiles & fishes of Jamaica."

Notes:

The donor, Andrew Caldwell (1722-1788), was a Philadelphia merchant who during the Revolution commanded the Pennsylvania Navy which repelled the British ships Roebuck and Liverpool (Memorial to Commodore John Barry [Philadelphia, 1907], p. 3).

Specimen Type:

Dead/preserved