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Edward Hitchcock's Chemical Field Kit

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Geologists often carried a small chemistry kit into the field as a quick way to give preliminary identifications to rock types collected while analyzing or mapping a region. 

Date:
c. 1838
Accession #:
1885.31
Courtesy of:
Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association/Memorial Hall Museum