Thomas Jefferson Papers

Diagram: Fossil Skull from Kentucky, 18 July 1802

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Diagram: Fossil Skull from Kentucky

View of Bone from Kentucky, presented the
American Philosophical Society.

MS (DLC: TJ Papers, 124:21493); in Peale’s hand, with a line and notation on the lower left side of the diagram indicating “Hollow to recieve the Angle of the under Jaw,” a line and notation on the lower right indicating “Passage to the Brain,” and a label across a portion of the diagram, “broken.”

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    Title
    Diagram: Fossil Skull from Kentucky, 18 July 1802
    Author
    Peale, Charles Willson
    Recipient
    Jefferson, Thomas
    Date
    18 July 1802

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    “Diagram: Fossil Skull from Kentucky, 18 July 1802,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-38-02-0085-0003. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 38, 1 July–12 November 1802, ed. Barbara B. Oberg. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2011, pp. 98–99.]

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