Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
September 1779
Primary Source Reference:
Du Simitière Memorandum Books, Library of Congress, fol. 46r
Notes:
Vermicularis is a human pin worm. Most likely this specimen was a fossil Turritella vermicularis, an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Turritellidae.
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.
