A Specimen of Gypsum or Plaister of Paris, from C[a]yuga Lake Gennesee

Object Status:

Unlocated

Primary Source Reference:

Peale Museum Accessions Book, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, p. 65

Notes:

Rev. Frederick Christian Schaeffer, of New York, was a Lutheran minister and mineralist; his portrait was painted by Charles Willson Peale. See

John C. Greene and John G. Burke, "The science of minerals in the age of Jefferson," Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, 68 (1978) and

https://books.google.com/books?id=Yl4CAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA66&lpg=PA66&dq=rev…