Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
August 1805
Primary Source Reference:
Peale Museum Accessions Book, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, p. 8
Additional Source Text:
United States Gazette (Philadelphia), 7 Feb 1806 reads: "An elegant polished agate . . ." and identifies the donor as "of England."
Notes:
Agate is cryptocrystalline quartz. Museums now label agate specimens as quartz (variety agate).
The donor was William Smith (1769-1839), known as the "Father of English Geology."
