mounted flounder
Date1793
Inventory Number0038
ClassificationMounted Biological Specimen
Subject
Maker
William Dandridge Peck
1763 - 1822
Cultural Region
Place of Origin
Dimensions35.9 × 57 × 1.7 cm (14 1/8 × 22 7/16 × 11/16 in.)
Bibliography
DescriptionThis is a dried flounder skin mounted on cardboard, collected from the Piscataqua River in Maine in 1793. The wooden frame is not original.
In Collection(s)
Signedin brown ink above fish: Collection Prof. Peck.
Inscribedin brown ink below fish: Pleuranectis Flesi / Locality Piscataqua River 1793
FunctionMounted specimens like this documented native fish and could be exchanged with foreign naturalists.
ProvenanceMuseum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University; transferred to CHSI May 20, 1948.
Historical AttributesThis mounted specimen was prepared according to a French method by William Dandridge Peck, Massachusetts Professor of Natural History (1805-1822) at Harvard College.
William Ladd
Date: 1850-1870
Object number: 2007-1-0529
Jean Baptiste François Soleil
Date: 1835-1850
Object number: 1998-1-0561
Wilhelm Steeg
Date: circa 1855
Object number: 1998-1-0564
German
Date: 1850-1870
Object number: 2007-1-0438
Jean Baptiste François Soleil
Date: 1835-1850
Object number: 1998-1-0562
W. Harold Tomlinson
Date: circa 1910
Accessories: mahogany box
Object number: 1998-1-0522
