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Last Name Leidy
Given Name Joseph
alt. Names J. L. ;
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Year born 1823 in Philadelphia, PA
Year died 1891
Place of death Philadelphia
Father's occupation hatter Philip Leidy
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Education naturalist, anatomist, coached in art by Richard Kern ;
Country of Activity United States of America
Worked for Amos Binney (1803-1847) ; U.S. Geol & Geog. Survey (1879) ; J. Leidy: Ancient Fauna of Nebraska (1853) ; Freshwater Rhizopods (1878) ; Cretaceous reptiles of the United States (Smithson. Contrib. Knowledge 14, VI, 1865) ;
Patronage Boston Society of Natural History ; Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia ;
Collaborators draughtsman -> Auguste Sonrel ; draughtsman ->A. J. Ibbotson ; draughtsman ->A. Frey ; draughtsman ->F. Shell ; draughtsman ->I. Butler ; lithographer -> Sinclair ; lithographer Tappan ; lithographer Bradford ;
Techniques geological and paleontological drawing and sketching ;
Sample(s) https://amongthestatelytrees.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/007.jpg ; https://amongthestatelytrees.wordpress.com/tag/joseph-leidy/ ;
Archival sources Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia ; Wagner Free Institute of Science; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Leidy ;
Published sources Nissen: Zoolog. Buchillustration 1969/78 ## 2431 & 4650a ; A. Gould: Binney's Terrest air-breathing mollusks US (1851, vol. 1) ; Glassman, Bolt & Spamer: Leidy, in: Proc Acad Nat Sci Phil 1993, 144: 1-19 ; Lapage 1961: 32 ; Davidson 2008: 76-8 ;
other Demonstrator of anatomy at Franklin Medical College.
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