Paleontology
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Commemorative Tee-Shirt
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: ANSP-2010-087-Artifact
Scope and Contents
This commemorative tee-shirt is from the Kansas Academy of Science for their 133 Annual Meeting on April 7, 2001 at the University of Kansas. The shirt was given out to participants of the Paleontology Symposium: Shells, Bones, and Stones". The top of the white shirt reads: "Kansas Paleontology 1868-2001: In their Footsteps". Five men are pictured on the front of the shirt, from left to right: E.D Cope; O.C Marsh; S.W Williston; C.H Sternberg; and G.F Sternberg. The tee-shirt is a size large...
Dates:
4/7/2001
Joseph Leidy Correspondence
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0001
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...
Dates:
1845-1913, undated