Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Retirement Series, Volume 12

The 580 documents in this volume cover a wide range of fascinating topics. Jefferson receives impressions of a mammoth's tooth, altitude and meteorological observations, a call for a national pharmacopoeia, a discussion of primeval geology, and a letter that elicits Jefferson's opinion that cognition exists "e;in animal bodies certainly, in Vegetables probably, in Minerals not impossibly."e; Jeffe...