The Published Writings of Isaac Lea, LL. D.

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Department of the Interior, U.S. National Museum, 1885 - 278 páginas
This bibliography of the works on the investigations into natural history by naturalist Isaac Lea, who contributed large portions of his collections to the National Museum. The bibliography is prefaced with a substantial biographical "sketch" giving details into Lea's early life, pursuits, and scientific investigations.
 

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Página liv - Henry Lea. by Mr. Carey Lea, for many of which I have been guilty of having tendered too seldom, or even no acknowledgments at all. Pray, do now kindly accept of a sum of them, along with the thanks for your last index. Well may you consider this as a jubilee, fifty-three years having now gone by since you published your " Account of the Minerals at present known to exist in the vicinity of Philadelphia,
Página 111 - Read before the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, and published in their Journal ; by ISAAC LBA, LL.D., President of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, <fec.
Página 59 - On a Fossil Saurian of the New Red Sandstone Formation of Pennsylvania, with some Account of that Formation. Also, On some New Fossil Mollusks in the Carboniferous Slates of the Anthracite Seams of the Wilkesbarre Coal Formation.
Página 51 - Description of a New Genus of the Family Melaniana, and of many New Species of the Genus Melania, chiefly collected by Hugh Cuming, Esq., during his Zoological Voyage in the East, and now first described.
Página 15 - It was undertaken purely with the view and in the hope of clearing away the difficulties which had incumbered one of the most interesting families of the Mollusca. * * * In...
Página liii - You have set a noble example of persevering devotion to the elucidation, and making known to your fellow-men, of the portion of God's creation selected by your judgment, taste, and opportunities for your studies. You will leave a grand and enduring monument of what one man may accomplish under such conditions, and I trust you may enjoy many years cheered by the retrospect of past labors, and by the grateful estimation in which they are held by the naturalists and lovers of science in both hemispheres.
Página viii - An Account of the Minerals at Present Known to Exist in the Vicinity of Philadelphia"; his second article (American Journal of Science and Arts, vol.
Página 63 - America for two or three years prior to the date at which Mr. Conrad has stated them as being published. In addition, he usually pays no regard to the dales of my descriptions printed in the Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society or otherwise, prior to their subsequent issue in the Transactions. Thus on the 18th August, 1843, 1 read a number of descriptions before that society, and permission was granted to me to print them at once. The following day, August 19th, these descriptions were...

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