Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
April 1781
Primary Source Reference:
Du Simitière Memorandum Books, Library of Congress, fol. 58v
Additional Source Text:
"Immersed in one another in every Direction of a darkish Semitransparent colour and Spotted all over with Small particles of mundick."
Notes:
This specimen was fluorite with a copper ore (mundick).
The donor, the Rev. William White (1748-1836), was the first and fourth Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church of the United States (1789; 1795-1836), the first bishop of the Diocese of Pennsylvania (1787-1836), and the second U.S. Senate Chaplain (appointed December 9, 1790). At the time of this donation he was rector of the United Congregations of Christ Church and St. Peters in Philadelphia.
