Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
September 1782
Primary Source Reference:
Du Simitière Memorandum Books, Library of Congress, fol. 67r
Additional Source Text:
Part of "a Collection of Specimens . . . from various parts of Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Connecticut. Their description and the places where they are found are enter'd in my catalogue of Fossils [not located], under the . . . numbers [indicated]."
This specimen was calamine, the historic name for an ore of zinc that was derived from lapis calaminaris, a Latin corruption of Greek cadmia (καδμία), the old name for zinc ores in general.
The donor is described as "Surgeon to the military hospital of the French army in the [U.S.]"
Notes:
This specimen was calamine, the historic name for an ore of zinc that was derived from lapis calaminaris, a Latin corruption of Greek cadmia (καδμία), the old name for zinc ores in general.
The donor, Jan Eeckhout, was a physician and artist. The inscription on a wax sculpture of Dr. Abraham Chovet indicates it was done by Dr. Jan Eeckhout, "his servant." Ethel Stanwood Bolton, Wax Portraits and Silhouettes (Boston, 1915), p. 72
