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Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University / https://www.americanscientist.org/article/jeffersons-old-bonesIMAGE INFORMATION

Mammoth Tooth, from near St. Louis

Object Status:

Unlocated

Accession Date:

January 10, 1820

Primary Source Reference:

Peale Museum Accessions Book, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, p. 100

Notes:

The Peale Museum's specimen of a mastodon tooth was probably similar to the mastodon molar tooth from an older adult animal pictured here, sent by William Clark in 1807 to Thomas Jefferson, who sent it to the American Philosophical Society, which later gave it to the Academy on Natural Sciences.