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Glass Models of Marine Invertebrates by Leopold and Rudolph Blaschka
Collection
Identifier: ANSP-2012-027-Artifact
Scope and Contents
This collection includes 48 glass models of various cephalopods, nudibranchs, sea slugs, and invertebrates crafted by Leopold and Rudolph Blaschka, along with their associated back boards and labels. The back boards are the original boards created for the models when acquired by the Academy, and the armatures and bases of the jellyfish models are confirmed to be the original pieces by Miranda Lowe of the Natural History Museum, London.
The models are in various states of disrepair and are...
Dates:
1879-1938
Joseph Leidy Illustrations
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0003
Overview
Most popularly known as the Father of American Vertebrate Paleontology, Joseph Leidy was also the Founder of American Parasitology, a Professor of Anatomy at the University of Pennsylvania, a pioneering protozoologist, an influential teacher of Natural History, a passionate microscopist, an accomplished scientific illustrator, and an expert on a variety of subjects. He published scientific papers on more than a thousand extinct and living protozoa, fungi and animals as well as an assortment...
Dates:
1833 - 1880
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