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...

Scope and Contents

This collection contains scrapbooks relating to field trips, photographs, reports, accounts of expeditions, historical notes on the Society, programs, biographical information about members, and correspondence. See Coll. 88 for historical sketch of the Society.

Deposited by the Philadelphia Botanical Society, 1959.