Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
September 20, 1810
Primary Source Reference:
Peale Museum Accessions Book, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, p. 52
Notes:
This mineral was zircon; a specimen from New Jersey is pictured here.
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
