Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
Ca. 1780
Primary Source Reference:
Robert Annan, "Account of a Skeleton of a Large Animal, found near Hudson's River," Memoirs of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2, no. 1 (1793): 160-164 / https://www.jstor.org/stable/27670792
Notes:
About twenty mastodon bones and teeth were excavated in 1780 from a swamp on the farm of the Rev. Robert Annan (1742-1819) near Walkill in Orange County, N.Y. Annan's published account stated that some of the bones had been sent to the Philadelphia museum of Du Simitière (p. 163).
Specimen Type:
Skeletons/skulls/bones
