Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
January 9, 1822
Primary Source Reference:
Poulson's American Daily Advertiser (Philadelphia), 9 Jan 1822
Notes:
Not long after this donation, Richard Harlan, the Museum's professor of comparative anatomy, dissected an alligator "which had lived several months in the Philadelphia Museum." His account is given in "Letter from Dr. Harlan to N. M. Hentz, Esq. containing some further Observations on the Physiology of the Alligator," Philadelphia, 19 May 1834, in Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, new series, 6 (1825): 226-227 /
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/4482416
Specimen Type:
Live (presumably eventually taxidermied/preserved)
Peale's Common Name:
Alligator
Current Common Name:
American alligator
Current Scientific Name
Alligator mississippiensis
