Anatomy course ticket signed by Joseph Leidy and D. Hayes Agnew

Anatomy course ticket signed by Doctors Joseph Leidy and D. Hayes Agnew for the semester 1864-1865 at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.

Joseph Leidy, Philadelphia anatomist and naturalist, was born on 9 Sept. 1823. He married Anna Harden in 1864; they had one adoptive daughter, Alwinia. Leidy died on 29 Apr. 1891. Leidy received an M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1844. From 1846 to 1853, he was a lecturer at the Franklin Medical College. In 1853, he succeeded William E. Horner as professor of anatomy at the University of Pennsylvania; Leidy held this post until his death. During the Civil War, he served as a surgeon at Satterlee General Hospital in Philadelphia. From 1870 to 1885, Leidy was professor of natural history at Swarthmore College. From 1881 to 1891, he was president of the Academy of Natural Sciences; he was also president of the Wagner Free Institute of Science. He made many contributions to anatomy, vertebrate paleontology, and parasitology. Leidy became a Fellow of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia in 1851.

Contributed by anonymous