An address upon the late Joseph Leidy ... : his university career / By William Hunt. Delivered November 17th, 1891, before the alumni and students of the Medical Department of the University of Pennsylvania. [In memoriam. Personal history. By William Humt. Read at the Academy of Natural Sciences, May 12, 1891].

  • Hunt, William, 1825-1896.
Date:
1892
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Credit: An address upon the late Joseph Leidy ... : his university career / By William Hunt. Delivered November 17th, 1891, before the alumni and students of the Medical Department of the University of Pennsylvania. [In memoriam. Personal history. By William Humt. Read at the Academy of Natural Sciences, May 12, 1891]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University Libraries/Information Services, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University.

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    William Hunt, M.D., Personal History. HARPasoN Allen, M.D., Work in Vertebrate Anatomy. Henry C. Chapman, M.D., Work in Invertebrate Anatomy. Prof. Angelo Heilprin, Work in Paleontology and Geology. Joseph Willcox, Work in Mineralogy. James Darrach, M.D., Work in Botany. Edward J. Nolan, M.D., Personal Character and Services to the Academy. Here are six branches of science mentioned in this catalogue concerning which, if an ordinary man of science makes a name in one of them, he and others consider his life well spent, and yet Dr. Leidy was an expert and authority in all. Now, this is what made me, on second thought, accept the invitation to appear before you to-night. A small edition of my remarks was printed for private circulation. In it I use the above unique programme for a preface, for nothing more was re- quired, and in it I also fortunately say, The personal history of Dr. Leidy is all that has been assigned to me to talk about for these few minutes, and, therefore, I leave to others the task of speak- ing of his University scientific career. That career, however, was not sufficiently spoken of, so