Scope and Contents Pedagogue, historian and amateur botanist, Joseph Martindale concerned himself with collecting plants int he Philadelphia area. With his brother Isaac and brother-in-law, B.F. Saurman, he prpared the natural history for the work later published under Joseph C. Martindale's name, "A History of the Townships of Byberry and Moreland"...1867. He maintained an exchange with Charles Eastwick Smith, sending various lists of plants, localities and general information about collecting in the area. ...

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...