> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 826](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33069068) of TL-2 Vol. II > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/22209-1) LSID 22209-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q461250) QID Q461250 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Leidy, Joseph (1823-1891), American anatomist, parasitologist and paleontologist at Philadelphia; founder of American vertebrate paleontology; one of the last of the great naturalists; Dr. med. Philadelphia 1844. **Abbreviated name**: *Leidy* \[standard form in IPNI: *Leidy*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection PENN|PENN]]. For manuscripts see e.g. Phillips and Phillips (1963). *Ref*.: Pennell, F. W., Bartonia 22: 12. 1943. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 2: 364; BM 3: 1083-1084; Bossert p. 233; CSP 3: 939-943, 8: 195-197, 10: 556-558, 12: 438, 16: 690-691; DAB (by G. P. Merrill); De Toni 1: lxxvii, 2: lxxv; LS 15126-15138; ME 3: 614 \[index\]; NAF ser. 2. 6: 68. 1972; NCAB 5: 220-221; Quenstedt p. 257; Rehder 5: 500; Stevenson p. 1248; Tucker 1: 420. - Anon., Amer. Naturalist 25: 408-410. 1891; Leopoldina 27: 108. 1891; Nature 44: 63. 1891; Science 18: 274-276. 1891 (on L. and vertebrate anatomy). - Brooks, W. K., Pop. Sci. Monthly 70: 311-314. 1907 (portr.). - Chapman, Proc. Amer. Acad. nat. Sci. Philadelphia 42: 342-388. 1892 (general biogr. and bibl. 553 items); Science ser. 2. 26: 812-815. 1907 (address at unveiling of Leidy Statue, Philadelphia). - Dana, J. D. (ed.), Amer. J. Sci. 41: 523-525. 1891, J. R. microsc. Soc. 1891 (2): 532-534. - Ewan, J., Rocky Mountain naturalists 248-249. 1950; Short hist. bot. U.S. 15, 47, 48. 1969. - Eyerman, Amer. Geol. 8(5): 333-342. 1891 (bibl. of 222 palaeontol. publ.). - Frazer, Amer. Geol. 9(1): 1-5. 1892 (portr.; on L's geological work). - Geikie, Quart. J. Geol. Soc. London 48: 55-58. 1892. - Graustein, J. E., Thomas Nuttall 262. 1967. - Harshberger, J. W., Bot. Philadelphia 16, 259, 338. 1899. - Hunt, W., In memoriam Dr. Joseph Leidy. Pamphlet (60 p.) Alumni Soc. med. dept. Univ. Pennsylvania 1892 (fide Osborn 1913). - Lee, Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts Sci. 27: 437-442. 1893 (necrology). - Leidy, J., Jr., ed., Smithsonian misc. coll. 46: 1-281. 1904 (L's work in helminthol. and parasitol., with bibl.). - Morse, Sci. Monthly 18: 422-439. 1924 (L's influence on science). - Nolan, Pop. Sci. Monthly 17: 684-691. 1880 (portr.). - Osborn, Biogr. mem. Natl. Acad. Sci. 7: 339-396. 1913 (the main biogr.; bibl., portr. and bibl. of biographies and bibliographies of L.); Science 59: 173-176. 1924 (general evaluation). - Pfender, C. A., *in* Kelly, H. A. and W. L. Burrage, American medical biographies 692-696. - Phillips, V. T. and M. E., Guide mss. Coll. Acad. Phila. p. 490 \[index\]. 1963. - Porter, T. C., Proc. Penn.-Germ. Soc. 6: 14-15. 1896 (portr.). - Rodgers, A. D., John Torrey 275. 1942; Amer. bot. 1873-1892, 20, 38, 94, 97, 158. 1944. - Ruschenberger, Proc. Amer. philos. Soc. 30(138): 167-184. 1892 (bibl.; extensive biogr.). - Ward, Arch. de Parasitol. 3: 269-279. 1900 (fide Osborn 1913). #### Commemorative meeting Joseph Leidy commemorative meeting, issued with Proc. Acad. nat. Sci. Philadelphia 75, 1923 (with e.g. W. Stone, p. 43-48, on L as a botanist). #### Eponymy *Leidya* França (1916); *Leidyonella* Frenzel (1891); *Leidyopsis* C. A. Kofoid & O. Swezy (1919). ### Publications ##### n.4339. A flora and fauna within living animals **Title** *A flora and fauna within living animals*... \[City of Washington (published by the Smithsonian Institution) 1853\]. Qu. **Abbreviated title**: *Fl. liv. anim.* **Notes** *Publ*.: late 1853 (p. 67: Apr 1853), p. \[1\]-67, *pl. 1-10.* *Copy*: US. – Smithsonian Contr. Knowledge 5(2), 1853.