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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

"Ward's Museum of Mineralogy, Geology and Zoology" Pamphlet

 Item
Identifier: ANSP-2012-060
Scope and Contents

Eight-page pamphlet found folded inside back cover of Academy Library's copy of "Catalogue of Casts of Fossils, from the Principal Museums of Europe and America, with Short Descriptions and Illustrations" by Henry A. Ward (1866), ANSP Call Number QE716.W25.



Dates: 1 June 1879