Natural history
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    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 cards...
          
      
          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.
      One item of particular interest in the collection is Joseph Leidy's description of a new genus of crustacean.
          Dates: 
        1838 - 1873
      
      
   

