Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
March 25, 1806
Primary Source Reference:
Poulson's American Daily Advertiser (Philadelphia), 25 Mar 1806
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. In 1798, he graduated in medicine from the University of Pennsylvania, his thesis being on the effects of poison ivy. He was later a curator of the East India Company Museum in London.
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 sumac
Imprint Information:
Philadelphia: Charles Cist, 1798
