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Zustand: Very good. THOMAS JEFFERSON ON THE GREAT-CLAW OR MEGALONYX - Quarto, 10-3/4 inches high by 9 inches wide. Unbound sheets from the "Transactions of the American Philosophical Society". 34 deckle-edged pages in all, with large untrimmed margins, consisting of pages 243 to 276. The Thomas Wright article is on pages 243-246, followed by the Thomas Jefferson article on pages 246-260, followed by the John Heckewelder article on pages 260-262 and concluding with the Adam Seybert article on pages 262-276. The Seybert article includes a "Table of Experiments performed on the Atmosphere at Sea" over the last 5 pages. There is occasional scattered foxing and the deckle-edged margins have been roughly opened. Very good. Thomas Jefferson, 1743-1826, an American Founding Father, here reports on the skeletal remains of an extinct large sloth, which he named Megalonyx, unearthed by saltpeter workers from a cave in what is now Monroe County, West Virginia. Jefferson is considered to be a pioneer of scientific paleontology research in North America.Thomas Wright, 1760?-1812, was a licentiate of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. He entered the army as a surgeon's mate, and served in the American Revolution. He was present at Charlestown and Yorktown and is said to have saved the life of Lord Cornwallis. During the Irish Rebellion of 1798 he was elected a United Irish captain and contributed money and materials to the rebels' cause. He later claimed to have treated over 500 wounded belligerents. He was the author of A Concise History of the Human Muscles (1791).John Heckewelder, 1743-1823, was an American missionary for the Moravian Church who began his career as an evangelist to the Indians. Heckewelder studied the languages, manners, and customs of American Indians, particularly the Delawares.Adam Seybert, 1773-1825, was a mineralogist who established the first mineralogy collection in the United States in the 1790s. He also served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives for Pennsylvania's 1st congressional district from 1809 to 1815 and 1817 to 1819.