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Historical AttributesIn the year III of the French Republic (1795), the Committee of Public Safety directed the Agency of Mines to send its "Citizen Brothers" at Harvard a gift of 189 specimens in recognition of the "Fraternall sentiments which Unites you to us." M. Mozard, the consul in Boston, personally presented the minerals to Harvard. This specimen of barite from Saxony was part of the gift and number 69 on the original list.
Published ReferencesDavid P. Wheatland, The Apparatus of Science at Harvard, 1765-1800 (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1968), 197.