Excerpt from An Address Upon the Late Joseph Leidy, M. D., LL. D., His University Career: Delivered November 17th, 1891, Before the Alumni and Students of the Medical Department of the University of Pennsylvania Edward J. Nolan, M.D., Personal Character and Services to the Academy. Here are six branches Of science mentioned in this catalogue concerning which, if an ordinary man of science makes a name in one of them, he and others consider his life well spent, and yet Dr. Leidy was an expert and authority in all. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.