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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.
Type
Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date
1811, December 17.
Call number
mssHM 82987
Creator
Gibbs, George (1776-1833)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance
Purchased from Ian Brabner, Rare Americana, July 2016.
Dimensions
26 cm :
Associated people
Cleaveland, Parker, (1780-1858,)
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