small wooden box of sillimanite samples
Date: circa 1900
Inventory Number: 4948
Classification: Mineral
Subject:
Maker: American
Cultural Region:
Dimensions:
2 x 4 x 2.8 cm (13/16 x 1 9/16 x 1 1/8 in.)
Material:
Description:
Small oval quartered pine box with red tint inside and brown paper label on lid, containing sillimanite.
Signedunsigned
Inscribedlabel on box lid: Sillimanite / 91-014 / Harvard / little mica present;
bottom of box: Sillimanite 91-014 Harvard
bottom of box: Sillimanite 91-014 Harvard
FunctionMinerology.
From Webster's 1913 unabridged: Fibrolite: (Fi"bro*lite) n. [L. fibra a fiber + -lite: cf. F. fibrolithe.] (Min.) A silicate of alumina, of fibrous or columnar structure. It is like andalusite in composition; — called also sillimanite, and bucholizite."
From Webster's 1913 unabridged: Fibrolite: (Fi"bro*lite) n. [L. fibra a fiber + -lite: cf. F. fibrolithe.] (Min.) A silicate of alumina, of fibrous or columnar structure. It is like andalusite in composition; — called also sillimanite, and bucholizite."