Fer oligiste imitatif, des volcans du depart, du Puy de Dome product par sublimation

Object Status:

Unlocated

Primary Source Reference:

Peale Museum Accessions Book, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, p. 38

Additional Source Text:

Part of "A small but valuable collection of Minerals, brought by Rembrandt Peale [from] france."

Notes:

This specimen was hematite "fer ligiste"; "imitatif" was a descriptor for a particular hexagonal habit of otherwise rhombohedral crystals.

Puy de Dôme is a lava dome and one of the youngest volcanoes in the Chaîne des Puys region of Massif Central in central France

René Just Haüy (1743-1822) was a French priest and mineralogist, commonly styled the Abbé Haüy after he was made an honorary canon of Notre Dame.