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Biodiversity Heritage Library / King's College London / https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/28860429IMAGE INFORMATION

A Quarto pamphlet on the arragonitee par Haüy

Object Status:

Unlocated

Accession Date:

December 30, 1808

Primary Source Reference:

Peale Museum Accessions Book, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, p. 38

Notes:

René Just Haüy (1743-1822), Sur l'arragonite, a 26-page article that was published in several French scientific journals. In March 1809 Rembrandt Peale presented to the American Philosophical Society a copy from the Annales du Muséum d'histoire naturelle, 11 (1808): 241-266.

Haüy was a French priest and mineralogist, commonly styled the Abbé Haüy after he was made an honorary canon of Notre Dame.