Elliott, Stephen, 1771-1830. Stephen Elliott papers, 1791- approximately 1947. Notes on plants and natural history. gra00020. Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Botany Libraries, Harvard University.

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Contains notes on Linnaean classes of plants, including Hexandria and Tetradynamia, and plant specimens; a manuscript, possibly by botanist James MacBride (1784-1817), describing plants local to swamps, pine barrens, sand hills, and other ecoregions; lists of Linnaean names of fishes and reptiles; lists of mollusks and notes on genera including Patella and Helix; a list in French of minerals, with descriptions, locations they were found, and some donor names, in an unknown hand; notes on specimens found in limestone and on geology and geography, with an illustration on the verso; and a list of elevated mountains in American, calculated from barometrical observations by A. Partridge of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. There are also some loose plants specimens.

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Lin. genera. Cuvier. Common names
Crotalus miliarius
— horridus
Boa contortrix Coluber cont.
Coluber simus
5 — striatulus
— punctatus
— fasciatus
— doliatus
— ordinatus
10 — coccineus?
— fulvius Elaps?
— getulus
— saurita
— constrictor ————— { Coach whip?
{ black Snake?
15. — guttatus
— aetivus
Anguis ventralis Ophisaurus ventralis Glass Snake
doubtful spec:
Coluber ahaetulla
— virginicus
— sirtalis
— sipedon
— leberis
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Catalogus Conchiliorum.
x Univalves.
1. Patella
oblong, conic, rough, streaks Fissurella x
decupate, fissure, oblong
2.
Small, cone spiral, Calyptraea
white —
3
arched, purplish — Crepidula x
within —
4 — —
flat, imbriate, par- do — x
tition? transparent.
5
small convex, transpa-
rent.
==
6. Turbo.
2. Spiral, spire distinct # Cyclostoma? - Vermetus
very smooth, ash coloured #
D. brach:
7. 2. — Clatherus 3 Scalaria clathrus x
Spires contiguous, orb-
ed, white
var. ribs angled at the # — var. 1. — x
upper corner. — 2. naked x.
8. 3. — Turritella — x
spires
minute.
9. 4. —
Periwinckle
==
10. Bulimus [Bulimulus].
oblong, smooth, dusky #
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25. 6. Murex tulipa 26.7. — canaliculata ==

27.1 Buccinum # 98.7 Buccinum
perdorci aff steeple — common #
28.2 — — abbicoratum . white # 29.3. — — small. capidea. 30.4 — — spires regular. stria de capate. rasp — # 31.5 — — geowood, toothed on the pilear (Steph.) # 32.6 — — old, mutilated. == 33 Voluta oliva — # 34. — — Similar. very small. Sea beach. common. # 35. — — with the last whorl ribbed — sea beach. # 36. — ? — with smooth spire (minute) 37 — — ? 4 toothed or the ? pillar 38 — —

81.7. Tellina round, small, semi trans- # parent 82.8. —— oval, [uvu?] transparent #? (Hetty) — == 83.1 Solen. large, opake, oval. 84.2. — — Earis? long, linear, 85.3. — — transparent — ==

86.1 Maetra 100. Maetra
ribbed, white, fragile # oblong, coarse, imbricate
equal sided. (imperfect)
oblong, smooth, common equal sided — # 88.3. — — round with a longita [dinal cilatrice?] — 89.4 — — Venny. very smooth, unequal sides — imperfect == 90.1 Mya Pictorum? == 91.1. Pholas. costata 92.2. — — ribs longitudinal.
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