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1796 catalogue

 A Scientific & Descriptive Catalogue of Peale's Museum (Philadelphia, 1796), p. 3

IMAGE INFORMATION

Skelleton of a man and woman of the Wabash nation of Indians

Object Status:

Unlocated

Accession Date:

May 30, 1794

Primary Source Reference:

Dunlap's American Daily Advertiser (Philadelphia), 30 May 1794

Notes:

Dr. Samuel Brown (1769–1830), Dickinson College 1789, received his medical degree from Marischal College of the University of Aberdeen in 1794 and was a professor of chemistry, anatomy, and surgery at Transylvania University in Lexington, Ky., from 1799 to 1806. He was elected to the American Pholosophical Society in Apr 1800. See biography at http://chronicles.dickinson.edu/studentwork/biographies/brownS_biograph…

Specimen Type:

Skeletons/skulls/bones

Peale's Scientific Name:

Homo sapiens Americanus

Current Scientific Name

Homo sapiens