Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
May 1781
Primary Source Reference:
Du Simitière Memorandum Books, Library of Congress, fol. 58v
Additional Source Text:
"Exactly of the form of one represented in Dr. Woodward's Fossils of all Kinds digested into a method, p. 37 fig. 3. the upper figure, it is of a blackish Stone and was found up in a plantation 2 miles from Philada."
Notes:
John Woodward (1665-1728), Fossils of all kinds, digested into a method, suitable to their mutual relation and affinity (London, 1728); the illustration Du Simitière refers to is pictured here.
The donor was a Quaker Philadelphia hatter.
