Object Status:
Extant
Accession Date:
10 October 1812
Primary Source Reference:
Peale Museum Accessions Book, 10 October 1812. Historical Society of Pennsylvania, coll. 0481.
Additional Source Text:
On 10 October 1812, the donation of "Pilecanus Cristatus" by J. Mix was recorded in the Peale Museum Accessions Book (Historical Society of Pennsylvania, coll. 0481), p. 63
Notes:
Peale sent seven birds “in Exchange to Mr. J. Mix at the N. Haven Museum which is considered an exchange for the Pilecanus Cristatus.” John Mix (1751-1820) was a museum proprietor and author of A catalogue of a part of the curiosities, both natural and artificial, contained in the museum in New-Haven. Collected, preserved and arranged, by John Mix, of New-Haven, Connecticut, proprietor of the museum (New Haven, 1812). The year after his death, much of Mix's museum was acquired by the New-England Museum (1818-ca. 1838) in Boston. See also Christine DeLucia, "Fugitive Collections in New England Indian Country: Indigenous Material Culture and Early American History Making at Ezra Stiles's Yale Museum," William & Mary Quarterly, 3d ser. 75, no. 1 (Jan 2018): 143-145.
Specimen Type:
Dead/preserved
Current Common Name:
European Shag
Current Scientific Name
Phalacrocoracidae | Phalacrocorax aristotelis
