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A Snake Skin 5 feet long & four or five inches broad the whole length of a darkish colour

Object Status:

Unlocated

Accession Date:

April 1781

Primary Source Reference:

Du Simitière Memorandum Books, Library of Congress, fol. 58v

Notes:

The donor was Benjamin Duffield, (1753-1799), the son of Philadelphia clock- and watchmaker Edward Duffield. He graduated from the College of Philadelphia (1771); completed medical courses there (1774), and went to Edinburgh to finish his training. He was a founding member of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia.

Specimen Type:

Individual parts