Description: MINERALOGY OF CHESTER COUNTY WITH THE LOCATIONS ANNEXED by WILLIAM W. JEFFERIS 1854 Facsimile reproduction of handwritten manuscript by The Friends of Mineralogy 1974 Rare, long OUT OF PRINT reproduction of William W. Jefferis’ hand written Mineralogy of Chester County, Pennsylvania. Manuscript is dated 1854. Measures 12 X 8 inches. This is a used, like new copy! William Walter Jefferis was born in West Chester, Pa on January 12, 1820. He became an avid mineral collector at an early age and started collecting minerals seriously in 1837. For the next 60 years he built his collection into one of the finest private mineral collections in the country. It was rich in suites of minerals from eastern Pennsylvania and northern New York; many of the specimens were self-collected. He has one publication to his name, the 1854 Mineralogy of Chester County, which was not published until 1974. The mineral jefferisite was named in his honor, but later proved to be vermiculite, and the name was discredited. In 1877-78 he served as Professor of Mineralogy at the West Chester Normal School. In 1883, he moved to Philadelphia and became curator to the William S. Vaux mineral collection. In 1904, Andrew Carnegie purchased Jefferis' collection of over 14,000 specimens for $20,000 and donated it to the Carnegie Museum of Natural History. Two railroad boxcars were needed to transport the collection to Pittsburgh. Shipping is by U.S. Postal Service Media Mail. Powered by SixBit's eCommerce Solution
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Location: Malvern, Pennsylvania
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