Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
April 24, 1805
Primary Source Reference:
Peale Museum Accessions Book, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, p. 3
Notes:
For rainbow, or peacock coal, see https://igws.indiana.edu/ReferenceDocs/GeoNotes/GeoNotes_PeacockCoal.pdf
The donor was probably the Rev. Dr. Samuel Eusebius McCorkle (1746-1811), a founder of the University of North Carolina. Richard A. Harrison, Princetonians, 1769-1775: A Biographical Dictionary (Princeton, 1980), pp. 245-249
