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.

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    How the doctor mourned the loss of his nucleus of a museum of natural history at Swarthmore when it was destroyed by fire a few years ago! He had grand but simple ideas of what a museum should be for the purposes of instruction, and many of them are now being carried out at the Biological. I could say much on this subject, but to enter upon it now would take up too much time for a discourse like that I am giving. The only instance I ever knew of Dr. Leidy's departure from strict truth was, to a medical man's way of looking at it, a very amusing one. Some years ago he came to my house in quite an enthu- siastic mood, and said, Dr. Hunt, do you know that they are moving the bodies from a very old burying-ground down town to make way for im- provements ? Yes, I said. Well, he went on, two bodies turned into adipocere are there [this is an ammoniacal soap, and the bodies are commonly called petrified bodies]. They have been buried for nearly a hundi-ed years, an old man and an old woman; nobody claims them, and they would be rare and instructive additions to our collections. summate skill, that it may become a living memorial of his earnest labors, his broad intelligence, and his commanding knowledge.