Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
June 1813
Primary Source Reference:
Peale Museum Accessions Book, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, p. 65-67
Notes:
This entry includes a long extract, written over pages 65-67 of the Accessions Book, from Short Instructions for Collecting Shells &c. &c., attributed by the British Library, which has the only recorded copy, to (most likely) George Annesley, 2nd Earl of Mountmorris (and Viscount Valentia in the Irish Peerage). The 8-page pamphlet carries the imprint "Golden-Square [London]: Brettell & Co." and has been given the conjectural date of [1815?]. The heading in the Accessions Book attributes it to Swainson, and at the end of the extract is recorded: "obligingly favoured by Mr. Lyons, botanist, 1813. June."
Presumably either John Lyon sent the pamphlet that had actually been printed before 1815, or he sent a manuscript of most of what would later be printed as a pamphlet (the first six pages).
John Timothy Swainson (1757-1824) was Collector of Customs of the Port of Liverpool 1807-1823.
John Lyon (1765-1814) was a Scottish botanist who resided many years in America. See Joseph and Nesta Ewan, "John Lyon, Nurseryman and Plant Hunter, and His Journal, 1799-1814," Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, 53, no. 2 (1963): 1-69.
