Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
June 4, 1817
Primary Source Reference:
Peale Museum Accessions Book, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, p. 86
Notes:
This specimen was likely Gossypium arboreum, commonly called tree cotton, which is native to India, Pakistan and Bangladesh.
Elijah L. Lawton (d. 1819) of Georgia graduated from the Medical Department of the University of Pennsylvania in 1809. He served in the U.S. Navy during the War of 1812. Horace Mather Lippincott, The University of Pennsylvania, Franklin's College (Philadelphia, 1919), p. 211
Current Common Name:
Cotton
Current Scientific Name
Gossypium arboreum
