Natural history
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Leidy family papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/155
Scope and Contents
The Leidy family papers consist of two discrete collections, including lecture and admission cards, correspondence, and newsclippings. The first collection of Leidy family material, MSS 2/155-01, contains lecture admission cards and related material, 1830-1866, from the medical educations of Napoleon B. Leidy and Philip Leidy at the University of Pennsylvania and the pharmaceutical education of Thomas Leidy at the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy. The series includes several...
Dates:
1830 - 1933
Samuel Stehman Haldeman papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/176
Scope and Contents
This small collection consists of letters received by Samuel Stehman
Haldeman from various correspondents, including C. B. Adams,
Joseph Leidy, Josiah Clark Nott, and Noah Webster. The letters
concern matters of linguistics and natural history.
One item of particular interest in the collection is Joseph Leidy's
description of a new genus of crustacean.
Dates:
1838 - 1873
