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18 Specimens of Fossils from the Western country

Object Status:

Unlocated

Accession Date:

January 18, 1819

Primary Source Reference:

Peale Museum Accessions Book, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, p. 97

Additional Source Text:

"Presented sometime since by Mr. John McClanagan."

Notes:

The donor may have been John Finney McClenachan (1744-1825), who served in the Chester County (Pa.) militia during the Revolution and later moved to Kentucky, and who donated many similar items to the Peale Museum around this time.