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( List No. 1.)
List of Boxes and Kegs of Specimens shipped by the American Brig L' Brent, Capt. Stude, bound to Philadelphia, and Consigned to the Navy Agents there, subject to the order of the Honorable Secretary of the Navy.
Five Boxes Botanical Specimen, No. 5 to 9, including 1 Box of "Seeds & Plants, No. 5"
Four Boxes Zoological Specimens, 1 to 4, C.P. & I.P.C.
Two Kegs Do Do Do
Two Kegs Do Do 1 to 2 P. R. Peale
One Box Do Mineralogical Do 1 J. D. Dana
Collected by the Naturalists of the U.S. Exploring Expedition
All sealed & stamped "U.S. Exploring Expedition"
M. S. Ship Vincennes
Rio de Janeiro
December 25th, 1838.
(Signed) A.R. (Baldwin)
Lea?
( List No. 2.)
"List of the content of two boxes of Zoological Specimens, Sent to the U.S. State from Rio de Janeiro, on board the Brig L' Brent: by Ethan R. Peale, Decr. 24th, 1838.
No. 1 Contains.—
3 Small Briers of Suncets.
28 Birds Skins.
1 Bat.
No. 2 Contains.—
1 Myotis
1 Tamandua
1 Decolylus labiatus
1 Brazilian Otter
1 Blacked Monkey
1 Oavia.