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A bone, from the bay of Honduras

Object Status:

Unlocated

Accession Date:

February 17, 1795

Primary Source Reference:

Gazette of the United States (Philadelphia), 17 Feb 1795

Notes:

The donor may have been Henry Benbridge (or Bembridge) (1743-1812), a Philadelphia-born portrait painter who had settled in Charleston, S.C. He had been elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1771.