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Several minerals from Pitsburgh

Object Status:

Unlocated

Accession Date:

September 20, 1813

Primary Source Reference:

Peale Museum Accessions Book, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, p. 69

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…