Leidy, Joseph

Dates: 1823-1891.

Leidy, Joseph (1823-1891). An elementary treatise on human anatomy. Philadelphia : J. B. Lippincott, 1861. AHSL-Tucson (Special Collections 2) QS 4 L527E 1861.
Leidy, Joseph (1823-1891). An elementary treatise on human anatomy. Philadelphia : Lippincott, 1889. 2nd ed., rewritten. AHSL-Tucson (Special Collections 2): QS 4 L527E 1889.

See: Chapman, Henry C. Memoir of Joseph Leidy, M. D., LL. D. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Vol. 43, (1891), pp. 342-388. [http://www.jstor.org/stable/4061730]
Lee, Thomas George. Joseph Leidy. Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Vol. 27, (May, 1891 - May, 1892), pp. 437-442. [http://www.jstor.org/stable/20020496]
Warren, Leonard. Joseph Leidy: the last man who knew everything. New Haven : Yale University Press, c1998. [http://www.netlibrary.com/urlapi.asp?action=summary&v=1&bookid=52836]

See also: Dermont Wilson Melick, MD (1910-1985) who was related to Dr. Leidy’s first wife, Catharine Melick Leidy.

AHSL has a color photograph taken by Dr. Melick of the oil portrait of Joseph Leidy which is owned by the Philadelphia Academy of Sciences.