Thomas Jefferson Quote

The term Mammal has no exact equivalent in the true vernacular of any modern language, the word itself, like its equivalents, the French Mammifere and the German Saugetheir, being entirely artificial.


A History of Land Mammals in the Western Hemisphere, Chapter I (p. 1)


The term Mammal has no exact equivalent in the true vernacular of any modern language, the word itself, like its equivalents, the French Mammifere...

The term Mammal has no exact equivalent in the true vernacular of any modern language, the word itself, like its equivalents, the French Mammifere...

The term Mammal has no exact equivalent in the true vernacular of any modern language, the word itself, like its equivalents, the French Mammifere...

The term Mammal has no exact equivalent in the true vernacular of any modern language, the word itself, like its equivalents, the French Mammifere...