First Edition. 4to. 9 leaves; large folded engraved map of the Atlantic Ocean.
Thomas Pownall, 1722-1805, colonial governor of Massachusetts-Bay, was a close friend of Benjamin Franklin, whose observations on the Gulf
Stream are included as foot-notes in this work.
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Williams’s use of the thermometer in navigñ.
ii. WILLIAMS,
Jonathan.
Memoir on the use of the Thermometer in Navigation. Presented to the American Philosophical Society, held at Philadelphia,
for promoting useful knowledge. Extracted from the third volume of their Transactions.
Philadelphia,
1792.
4to. The Third Volume of the Transactions was published by
Robert Aitken in 1793. The caption title of this Memoir (No. X, pages 82-100),
read on November 19, 1790, reads:
Memoir of Jonathan Williams on the use of the Thermometer in discovering Banks, Soundings, &c.
For a note on Jonathan Williams, see no. 649
supra. This Memoir follows immediately that of Benjamin Rush on the Sugar Maple-Tree, no. IX in the same volume of Transactions,
see no. 677.
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transactions of the agricultural society of N. Y.
iii.
Transactions of the Agricultural Society of New York.
A copy of the Transactions of the Agricultural Society of New York was sent to Jefferson in 1792 by Mr. Samuel Jones, junr.,
though apparently for transmission to the President. On December 1, 1792, Jefferson wrote from Philadelphia to Samuel Jones:
“
Th: Jefferson has the honor to acknolege the reciept of a copy of the transactions of the Society for Agriculture &c at New
York, & to return his thanks for the acceptable present to the President, as also to M
(
~r
)
Jones for the transmission of the same, with D
r. Mitchell’s outlines of Natural history &c.
”
For Mitchill’s
Outlines of Natural History
see no. 670.
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Parmentier sur le mays.
iv. PARMENTIER,
Antoine-Auguste.
Memoire . . . sur cette question: Quel seroit le meilleur procédé pour conserver le plus long temps possible, ou en grain
ou en farine, le maïs ou blé de Turquie . . . Par M. Parmentier . . .
Bordeaux:
A. A. Pallandre l’aîné,
1785.
First Edition. 4to. 85 leaves, no copy was seen for collation.
Quèrard
[
sic
--
Ed.
] VI, 605.
This edition not in the Huzard catalogue.
Antoine-Auguste Parmentier, 1737-1813, French chemist and agriculturalist.
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British Wool.
v. SINCLAIR,
Sir John, bt.
Address to the Society for the improvement of British wool; constituted at Edinburgh, on Monday January 31, 1791. By Sir John Sinclair.
1791.
Jefferson’s copy was sent to him by the author from London before publication, on December 25, 1790, with a letter written
in the third person: “. . . He [Sir John Sinclair] is at present endeavouring to establish a Society, for the purpose of improving British Wool
and he has the honor of sending Mr Jefferson, a Copy of the printed Papers upon the subject; together with a Specimen of the
Wool of the Shetland Islands, which is reckoned the finest produced in any part of ”
