Signedin brown ink above fish: Collection Prof. Peck.
Inscribedin brown ink below fish: Pleuranectis Flesi / Locality Piscataqua River 1793
FunctionThis mounted specimens like this documented native fish and could be exchanged with foreign naturalists.
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.
Published ReferencesDavid P. Wheatland, The Apparatus of Science at Harvard, 1765-1800 (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1968), 190.