Catalogue of specimens collected by the US Exploring Expedition and received by the Philadelphia Museum, 1838 - 1842
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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.