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Language:English
Date:June 29, 1793
Contributor:Barton, Benjamin Smith, 1766-1815
Subject:Zoology | Animals--Nomenclature
Type:Text
Genre:Essays
Extent:74 pages
Description: "Notes on the animals of North America." Information about various animals with additional data on birds and fish. In many instances includes indigenous names and use of animals, principally for Algonquian and southeastern Indians.
Collection:Violetta Delafield-Benjamin Smith Barton Collection (Mss.B.B284d)
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Language:English
Date:1792-1796
Contributor:Barton, Benjamin Smith, 1766-1815
Subject:Zoology | Birds | Natural history | Animals--Nomenclature | Birds | Diseases | Folklore
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Extent:2 items
Description: Correspondence relating to Cherokees. Letter to Thomas Pennant, sending specimens of birds called Onacloneita by visiting Cherokee Indians; and letter to John G. E. Heckewelder, inquiring whether any Indians ever have a sickly white color or white spots on them and mentioning Cherokee belief that their ancestors found a race of "develish white-people" when they came to the area then inhabited. [From original in the Gilbert Collection, College of Physicians, Philadelphia.]
Collection:Violetta Delafield-Benjamin Smith Barton Collection (Mss.B.B284d)