Article ID: CBB000046587

Peter Collinson's curious amphibious quadruped (1753) (1988)

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Description On Collinson's correspondance with John Bartram requesting the skin of a rare “four-footed amphibious creature, that is peculiar to the River Ohio”.


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Authors & Contributors
Wulf, Andrea
Wilson, David Scofield
Volmer, Stephanie
Stothers, Richard B.
Slaughter, Thomas P.
Regis, Pamela
Journals
Archives of Natural History
The Linnean: Newsletter and Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London
Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society
Llull: Revista de la Sociedad Española de Historia de las Ciencias y de las Técnicas
Publishers
American Philosophical Society
Knopf
Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick
William Heinemann
University of Massachusetts Press
Northern Illinois University Press
Concepts
Herpetology
Natural history
Botany
Gardens
Great Britain, colonies
Naturalists
People
Bartram, John
Collinson, Peter
Bartram, William
Linnaeus, Carolus
Ellis, John
Jefferson, Thomas
Time Periods
18th century
19th century
20th century
17th century
Places
United States
Great Britain
Philadelphia, PA
South Carolina (U.S.)
New England (U.S.)
North Carolina (U.S.)
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