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Fossil Oyster Shells,found about 2 Miles from Allentown New Jersey

Object Status:

Unlocated

Accession Date:

October 17, 1808

Primary Source Reference:

Peale Museum Accessions Book, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, p. 35

Notes:

Solomon White Conrad (1779-1831) was a Philadelphia printer and bookseller and later became a lecturer in mineralogy and professor of botany at the University of Pennsylvania and librarian of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. He was also a member of the Philadelphia Society for Promoting Agriculture. See https://plants.jstor.org/stable/10.5555/al.ap.person.bm000375110