Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
January 1810
Primary Source Reference:
Peale Museum Accessions Book, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, p. 48
Notes:
The element uranium had only recently been discovered (in 1789, in Germany).
Silvain Godon (ca. 1774-1840) was a French mineralogist who settled in Philadelphia in 1809 and gave lectures at Peale's Museum until he had a mental breakdown in 1810.
