Dr. Schiebinger tells the history of a great plant: the Peacock Flower. She describes how this plant was known by native and enslaved women to cause abortion and how this knowledge was disseminated.
Requests subscriptions for the amount of $1000 for which is promised in exchange a complete set of duplicate specimens collected. Subscriptions to be sent to Prof. Albert Hopkins. Signed in type by Wallace Freeman, Ja[me]s H. Canfield and J. Boyd Thacher, members of the financial committee. Page 3 includes recommendations by Joseph Henry of the Smithsonian Institution (including a promise to loan scientific instruments from that institution) and C. H. Davis of the U. S. Naval Observatory.
