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Didier Descouens, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons / https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a8/Skutt%C3%A9rudite.j…IMAGE INFORMATION

Arsenical Cobalt, from Chatham Connecticut

Object Status:

Unlocated

Accession Date:

February 8, 1810

Primary Source Reference:

Peale Museum Accessions Book, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, p. 49

Additional Source Text:

The donor was from New York.

Notes:

This specimen was most likely skutterudite.

Archibald Bruce (1777-1818) was an American physician and mineralogist. He was also the editor of the American Mineralogical Journal (1810-1814), copies of which he presented to the Peale Museum. See https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uiug.30112026567237?urlappend=%3Bseq=28%3Bo…