| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 105.2

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Book Review

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Leonard Warren. Joseph Leidy: The Last Man Who Knew Everything. New Haven: Yale University Press. 1998. Pp. xvi, 303. $35.00.

This book by Leonard Warren about Philadelphia naturalist Joseph Leidy (1823–1891) represents a strong marriage of intellectual history and biography. Leidy, a lifelong citizen of Philadelphia and professor of anatomy (1853–1891) and head of the Biology Department (1884–1891) at the University of Pennsylvania, was also a founder of American vertebrate paleontology, parasitology, and protozoology. As Warren explains so well, the breadth of Leidy's curiosity was almost without limit: from anthropology, entomology, helminthology, and botany to protozoology, zoology, geology, mineralogy, comparative anatomy, histology, and pathology. As one of the premier naturalists of the nineteenth century, Leidy as portrayed by Warren was a brilliant but compulsive scientist, one of a half dozen individuals in his day who endeavored to encompass the full breadth and depth of nature's bounty. . . .

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