ALS : Philadelphia, to Julius Timoleon Ducatel, 1834 Apr. 10.

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ALS : Philadelphia, to Julius Timoleon Ducatel, 1834 Apr. 10.

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Mease informs Ducatel that he had deposited letters between Thomas Jefferson and Stephen Girard in the cabinet of the American Philosophical Society, and asks Ducatel to send him a copy of his geological report.

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American Philosophical Society

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Benjamin Franklin founded the American Philosophical Society in 1743 in Philadelphia, patterning it after the Royal Society of London. It's purpose was the promotion of the study of science and the practical arts of agriculture, engineering trades, and manufactures. Subjects of today's "philosophy" were generally excluded from the societies of the 17th and 18th centuries and the word "philosophy" meant to them "love of knowledge," and was essentially the equivalent of today's "science." Interest...

Ducatel, Julius Timoleon, 1796-1849

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Mease, James, 1771-1846

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James Mease (Aug. 11, 1771-May 14, 1846), physician, scientific thinker and author, was one of Philadelphia's most prominent citizens and an ardent booster of both the United States and Pennsylvania. His interests were wide-ranging, as were his contacts with notable figures in science, agriculture and natural history in the United States and abroad. Mease was born in Philadelphia into a wealthy and patriotic shipping merchant family; during the Revolutionary War his father, John Mease, served in...