9 September 1823 – 29 April1891
Born: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Died: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Occupation: Naturalist. Biologist. Malacologist. Prof. of Anatomy, University of Pennsylvania, 1853-1991. Prof, of Natural History, Swarthmore College, 1870-1885.
Education: M.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1844.
Societies / Service: President, ANSP, 1881-1891.
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Data from: Abbott, R.T., and M.E. Young (eds.). 1973. American Malacologists: A national register of professional and amateur malacologists and private shell collectors and biographies of early American mollusk workers born between 1618 and 1900. American Malacologists, Falls Church, Virginia. Consolidated/Drake Press, Philadelphia. 494 pp.
Other References: Chapman, H.C. 1891. Memoir of Joseph Leidy, M.D., LL.D. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 43(1891):342-388 + 1 plate.
Partial Bibliography
Leidy, J. 1857. [On the parasites of Anodonta]. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 9(1857):18.
Leidy, J. 1859. Contributions to helmithology. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 10(1858):110-112.
Leidy, J. 1877. On flukes infesting mollusks. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 29(1877):200-202.
Leidy, J. 1883. On the reproduction and parasites of Anodonta fluviatilis. Nachrichtenblatt Deutschen Malakozoologischen Gesellschaft 1883:116.
Leidy, J. 1883. On the reproduction of parasites of Anodonta fluviatilis. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 35(1883):44-45.
Leidy, J. 1883. Anodonta fluviatilis. (Abstract). Science 1(5):150.