Manuscripts
George Gibbs letter to Parker Cleaveland
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- Description
- In this 1811 letter, George Gibbs writes about his collection to Parker Cleaveland, professor of Chemistry at Bowdoin College. Gibbs announces in this letter his discovery of "the first cristal [sic] in a meteoric stone". The only remaining specimen of the Weston meteorite is in the "Gibbs Cabinet" at Yale's Peabody Museum of Natural History. In 1816, Cleaveland wrote the first American textbook on mineralogy and geology; he is considered by many to be the father of American mineralogy. In 1822, the mineral gibbsite was named in honor of George Gibbs.
- Production date
- 1811, December 17.
- Call number
- mssHM 82987
- Provenance
- Purchased from Ian Brabner, Rare Americana, July 2016.
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