Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
December 10, 1817
Primary Source Reference:
Peale Museum Accessions Book, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, p. 90
Notes:
This specimen may have been rutile.
Linnaeus refers to Calcareo-siliceous titanic ore in his General System of the Mineral Kingdom (London, 1806), p. 312 (citing "Kirwan miner[alogy] 2. p. 331")
The donor may have been a relation of Andrei Yakovlevich Dashkov (1777-1830), who was the first Russian diplomat in the United States (1809-1817).
