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Joseph Leidy
Joseph Mellick Leidy was an American paleontologist, parasitologist, and anatomist.
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science · American anatomist and paleontologist (1823-1891) · paleontologist · university teacher · zoologist · parasitologist · anatomist · botanist · botanical collector · scientific collector · physician · also Joseph Leidy, Leidy, Joseph Mellick Leidy, J. M. Leidy
Born 9 September 1823 · Died 30 April 1891 · Q461250
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2018· 1 entry
PBS: Joseph Leidy and Charles Knight
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2012· 1 entry
Drexel University: Joseph Leidy Award Goes to a Stony Brook Evolutionary Biologist
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2007· 1 entry
Suggested that the woman had died in her late 20s
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1987· 1 entry
Showed that she had buttons on her body that weren't produced until the 1830s
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1907· 1 entry
Edward Anthony Spitzka published a paper of his analysis of six brains at the American Anthropometric Society, including Leidy's
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1891· 2 entries
Died 1891-04-30.
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And displayed specimens based on taxonomy and systematics
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1885· 1 entry
The Wagner Free Institute of Science formed a board of trustees to find a new director
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1884· 1 entry
Won Lyell Medal (1884).
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1875· 1 entry
A woman's body was exhumed from a Philadelphia cemetery; her body was encased in adipocere
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1869· 1 entry
Contained many species not previously described and many previously unknown on the North American continent
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1855· 1 entry
Leidy published an influential memoir on fossil ground sloths of North America, the first comprehensive study of North American xenarthrans (the group including sloths, armadillos, glyptodonts, and anteaters)
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1852· 1 entry
Leidy referred Bison antiquus, the North American fossil bison, to the genus Bison, the first to do so
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1849· 1 entry
Was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society
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1846· 1 entry
Leidy became the first person to use a microscope to solve a murder mystery
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1823· 2 entries
In Philadelphia, to an established Pennsylvania Dutch family
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Born 1823-09-09.
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