Scope and Contents

Letters are mostly addressed to P.P. Calvert, as editor, and refer to various aspects of editorial business. Manuscripts are offered for publication, reviews and criticisms made of papers which have appeared in the "Entomological News," discussion of deposition of the type specimens described in the journal and of the matter of exchange fo specimens and reprints.

Archived from the Society's holdings, March 13, 1959

Overview Joseph Mellick Leidy (1823-1891), one of the great American scientists of the 19th century, possessed a vast knowledge of the natural world. Best known as the Father of American vertebrate paleontology, he also pioneered the fields of parasitology and protozoology, and was the preeminent anatomist of his time. He was also an influential teacher of natural history and an expert in areas as diverse as entomology, geology and pathology. The Joseph Leidy Correspondence collection contains...