3.
On the application of Natural Philosophy and Chemistry, to Arts, &c.
Philadelphia,
1801.
This pamphlet has not been identified.
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4. VAUGHAN,
John.
The Valedictory Lecture delivered before the Philosophical Society of Delaware. By Dr. John Vaughan, member of said Society, &c. . . .
Wilmington: printed at the
Franklin Press, by
James Wilson,
1800.
Q171 .V3
Sm. 8vo. 29 leaves, separate half title for the Chemical Syllabus. The dedication to the Female Enquirers of Wilmington dated
August 20, 1800, the Advertisement June 28, 1800, and the dedication of the Chemical Syllabus to the Philosophical Society
of Delaware November 20, 1799.
Jefferson’s copy was sent to him by the author, with a letter dated from Wilmington, December 3, 1800: “You will please to accept the enclosed pamphlet as a tribute of esteem from its author. The only apology, I have to plead
in extenuation of the privilege assumed, is the liberality necessarily attached to your character as a philosopher.
"With anxious solicitude for the (just) result of this auspicious day . . .”
Jefferson replied from Washington on December 10: “
Th: Jefferson presents his compliments to Doct
r. Vaughan, and his thanks for the pamphlet inclosed to him, which he is assured he shall peruse with pleasure at the first
leisure moment. he prays him to accept the assurances of his respect.
”
John Vaughan, 1775-1806, physician in Wilmington, and friend of Jefferson, was treasurer of the American Philosophical Society for a number
of years.
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5. PALISOT DE BEAUVOIS,
Ambroise Marie François Joseph, Baron.
Catalogue raisonné du Museum de Mr. C. W. Peale . . . rédigé par A.-M.-F.-J. Beauvois. Philadelphie: imprimé de
Pierre Parent, n.d. [
1800 ]
8vo. 28 pages; no copy was seen for collation.
Peale’s Museum was founded in 1802
[
sic
--
Ed.
]by Charles Willson Peale. In his
Introduction to a Course of Lectures
(see the next following entry) he stated that “Mr. Patterson (Professor of Mathematics in our University . . . presented
me with the first article, a curious fish of our western waters, with which to begin my Museum.”
Ambroise Marie François Joseph, Baron Palisot de Beauvois, 1751-1820, French botanist and traveller, visited Philadelphia on various occasions. For an English edition of the Catalogue
of Peale’s Museum and a note on the author, see no. 683.
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6. PEALE,
Charles Willson.
Introduction to a Course of Lectures on Natural History. Delivered in the University of Pennsylvania, Nov. 16, 1799. By Charles W. Peale . . .
Philadelphia: printed by
Francis and Robert Bailey,
1800.
QH81 .P35
8vo. 14 leaves.
Sabin
note following 59419.
Charles Willson Peale, 1741-1827, portrait painter, naturalist and patriot, was a friend and correspondent of Jefferson.
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7. HENFREY,
Benjamin.
A Plan with Proposals for forming a Company to work Mines in the United States; and to smelt and refine the Ores whether of
Copper, Lead, Tin, Silver, or
