Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
December 17, 1807
Primary Source Reference:
Peale Museum Accessions Book, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, p. 26
Additional Source Text:
"Where large quantitys of these and other Shells are found in the Earth and on its Surface in a valley one Side of which is covered with these Shells on a Bottom of Clay Sand and in many parts, of fullers Earth. & on the opposite side the soil is barron and very Rocky."
Notes:
San Casciano in Val di Pesa is about ten miles southwest of Florence, Italy.
Wollaston was U.S. Consul for Genoa 1797-1803.
