Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
February 22, 1806
Primary Source Reference:
Peale Museum Accessions Book, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, p. 12
Notes:
Thomas Horsfield (1773-1859) was an American physician and naturalist who worked extensively in Indonesia, describing numerous species of plants and animals from the region. He was later a curator of the East India Company Museum in London. This publication was his University of Pennsylvania medical school thesis.
Title Information:
An experimental dissertation on the rhus vernix, rhus radicans and rhus glabrum: commonly known in Pennsylvania by the names of poison-ash, poison-vine and common sumach
Imprint Information:
Philadelphia, 1798
