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W. T. Craigie |
b?; d?
A M.D. who donated to the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia
the first specimens of Amblyopsis spelaea collected for scientific
purposes (Anonymous 1842). At the 24 May 1842 meeting of the Academy,
he presented a specimen of ‘a small white fish, also eyeless (presumed to
belong to a subgenus of Silurus), taken from a small stream called the
"River Styx" in the Mammoth Cave, Kentucky, about two and one-half miles
from the entrance’.
Today, at the collection of the Academy there are three specimens of
Amblyopsis spelaea in alcohol that appear linked to this donation. Two are
catalogued as ANSP 7964 collected by W.T. Craige, and the other, ANSP
7964, collected by ‘Mrs. C.H. Graff, Messrs. Craige & Lambert’. All three
specimens were captured in Mammoth Cave, but no dates are given. |
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