Letters to Philadelphia Society for Promoting Agriculture, 1844-1850.

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Letters to Philadelphia Society for Promoting Agriculture, 1844-1850.

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Sends a new variety of seed to James Mease (1844). Sends announcement of the formation of the Society for the Development of the Mineral Resources of the United States (1848). Sends sample of the hair of the Rocky Mountain goat (Maxama americana) obtained from Samuel S. Halderman of Lancaster County, Pa. and letter about the possibility of domesticating the animal in the western states (1850).

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University of Pennsylvania Libraries, Van Pelt Library

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Dickison, M. W.

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Browne, Peter A. (Peter Arrell), 1782-1860

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Halderman, Samuel S., 1812-1880

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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...