nephew” on February 26, 1796. The paper was read before the American Philosophical Society on April 4, 1794 and published
in vol. IV. of the
Transactions
. This separate issue of the pamphlet, and the supplement which appeared in 1800, were printed for private distribution.
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Megatherium.
v.
The Monthly Magazine, September, 1796. Vol. II, no. VIII.
London:
Johnson,
1796.
AP4 .M8
8vo. Contains a Notice concerning the Skeleton of a very large Species of Quadruped, hitherto unknown, found at Paraguay,
and deposited in the Cabinet of Natural History at Madrid. Drawn up by G. Cuvier, with a full-page engraved plate, entitled:
The Skeleton of a large species of Quadruped hitherto unknown lately discovered one hundred feet under ground near the River
la Plata.
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Peale.
vi. PEALE,
Charles Willson,
and
Palisot de Beauvois, A. M. F. J., baron.
A scientific and descriptive catalogue of Peale’s Museum, by C. W. Peale, Member of the American Philosophical Society, and A. M. F. J. Beauvois, Member of the Society of Arts and Sciences of St. Domingo; of the American Philosophical Society; and correspondent to the
Museum of Natural History at Paris . . .
Philadelphia: Printed by
Samuel H. Smith.
M. DCC. XCVI. [1796.]
QL71 .P55 A2
8vo. 78 leaves; issued in blue wrappers with a paper label on the front cover:
No. 1. Catalogue of Peale’s Museum.
Sabin 59419.
Evans 30967.
Charles Willson Peale, 1741-1827, portrait painter, naturalist and patriot, established Peale’s Museum in Philadelphia in 1794.
Ambroise Marie François Joseph, baron Palisot de Beauvois, 1751-1820, French botanist and traveller, first visited Philadelphia in 1791, and at different times spent some years in
that city. He was in correspondence with Jefferson who, in a letter to Burwell Basset dated June 17, 1811, described him as
“
a literary friend & acquaintance of mine”.
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Deveze.
vii. DEVÈZE,
Jean.
An Enquiry into, and Observations upon the Causes and Effects of the Epidemic Disease, which raged in Philadelphia from the
Month of August till towards the Middle of December, 1793. By Jean Deveze . . .
Philadelphia: Printed by
Parent,
1794.
RC211 .P5 D4
First Edition. 8vo. in fours. 77 leaves;
English and
French texts on opposite pages, the
French title (without date) on the first leaf of the second sheet.
Sabin 19814.
Evans 26873.
Surgeon General’s Library Catalogue I, ii, 718.
According to the Library of Congress catalogues (1831 and later), the copy of this work in the Jefferson collection was that
of the first edition, which has therefore been described here. Devèze himself sent to Jefferson a copy of the second edition,
printed by Madame Huzard in 1804.
Devèze sent the copy of the second edition in 1806, when he was trying to obtain compensation for the services rendered by
him during the yellow fever outbreak in Philadelphia in 1793. On March 16, 1806, he wrote to Jefferson explaining at length
the nature of these services, and sent the treatise: “il vient de me parvenir un extrait du discours que votre excellence a prononcé au congres Le 6. x
bre dernier. Je ne puis voir sans une extreme satisfaction, par ce que vous dites de la fievre ”
