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 likely magnesium carbonate, not manganese carbonate, so magnesite.
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.
