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Fossil shell from Charles's County Maryland

Object Status:

Unlocated

Accession Date:

September 27, 1816

Primary Source Reference:

Peale Museum Accessions Book, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, p. 81

Notes:

Dr. James Trimble (1790-1838), a medical graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, was a passionate geologist who in 1836 was named a Corresponding Member of the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia. Rebecca Irwin Graff, Genealogy of the Claypoole Family of Philadelphia,1588-1893 (Philadelphia, 1893), pp. 93-98