Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
April 20, 1804
Primary Source Reference:
Early proceedings of the American Philosophical Society for the Promotion of Useful Knowledge, 1744 to 1838 (Philadelphia, 1884), pp. 350, 351
Notes:
William J. Lewis (1766-1828) of Campbell County, Va., on 7 Mar 1804 sent to Thomas Jefferson (as president of the American Philosophical Society) a bone that was found in Buckingham County "about seventy five feet below the surface of the ground, owing in a specious [species?] of quartose rock" and two mineral samples: "a flint formed in clay" and "a fragment of a quartose rock." He told Jefferson, "Should you deem these articles I send you, worthy the attention of the Philosophical society, be so good as to give them a conveyance; and after an examination, my desire is, that they be presented to Mr. Peal." APS read the letter on 6 Apr and referred it to members Robert Patterson, Caspar Wistar, and Robert Hare. On 20 Apr APS resolved that the letter and the minerals should be sent to Peale. Founders Online, National Archives / https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-42-02-0523 ; Selected Papers, 2, pt. 1: 661n
