Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
November 10, 1807
Primary Source Reference:
Peale Museum Accessions Book, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, p. 25
Additional Source Text:
Poulson's American Daily Advertiser (Philadelphia), 6 Oct 1808 reads: "A number of interesting Minerals, collected by the donor on a tour through the Eastern states, to the Falls of Niagara, &c."
Notes:
Reuben Haines (1786-1831) was a Quaker farmer, brewer, abolitionist, scientist, ornithologist, meteorologist, firefighter, philanthropist, and educational reformer. An active member of the American Philosophical Society and the Academy of Natural Sciences, he kept a scientific cabinet at his home at Wyck House in Germantown, Pa.
