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LEIDY, JOSEPH (1823–1891)

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LEIDY, See also:JOSEPH (1823–1891) , See also:American naturalist and palaeontologist, was See also:born in See also:Philadelphia on the 9th of See also:September 1823. He studied See also:mineralogy and See also:botany without an instructor, and graduated in See also:medicine at the university of See also:Pennsylvania in 1844. Continuing his See also:work in See also:anatomy and See also:physiology, he visited See also:Europe in 1848, but both before and after this See also:period of See also:foreign study lectured and taught in American medical colleges. In 18J3 he was appointed See also:professor of anatomy in the university of Pennsylvania, paying See also:special See also:attention to See also:comparative anatomy. In 1884 he promoted the See also:establishment in the same institution of the See also:department of See also:biology, of which he became director, and meanwhile taught natural See also:history in Swarthmore See also:College, near Philadelphia. His papers on biology and palaeontology were very numerous, covering both See also:fauna and See also:flora, and ranging from microscopic forms of See also:animal See also:life to the higher vertebrates. He wrote also occasional papers on minerals. He was an active member of the See also:Boston Society of Natural History and of the American Philosophical Society; and was the recipient of various American and foreign degrees and honours. His Cretaceous See also:Reptiles of the See also:United States (1865) and Contributions to the See also:Extinct Vertebrate Fauna of the Western Territories (1873) were the most important of his larger See also:works; the best known and most widely circulated was an Elementary See also:Treatise on Human Anatomy (186o, afterwards revised in new See also:editions). He died in Philadelphia on the 3oth of See also:April 1891. See Memoir and portrait in Amer. Geologist, vol. ix.

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Jan. 1892) and Bibliography in vol. viii. (Nov. 1891) and Memoir by H. C. See also:Chapman in Proc. Acad. Nat. Sc. (Philadelphia, 1891), p. 342.

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