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Ivar Leidus, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons / https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cb/Epidote_-_Canta%2C_…IMAGE INFORMATION

Cristaux d'Epidot, aciculaire

Object Status:

Unlocated

Accession Date:

December 30, 1808

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 probably epidote.

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.