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Specimen of Red Arsenic

Object Status:

Unlocated

Accession Date:

March 16, 1814

Primary Source Reference:

Peale Museum Accessions Book, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, p. 72

Notes:

Realgar, also known as ruby sulphur or ruby of arsenic, is an arsenic sulfide mineral.

John Redman Coxe (1773-1864) was a physician and professor of medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.