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Born April 5, 1838 • Washington, D.C. • United States
Died January 15, 1902 (aged 63) • Cambridge • Massachusetts
Notable Family Members daughter Anna Hyatt Huntington
Subjects Of Study cephalopod • invertebrate • fossil

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Leidy
Joseph Leidy
American zoologist
Addison Emery Verrill
American zoologist
Raymond Cecil Moore
American paleontologist
Georges Cuvier
Georges Cuvier
French zoologist
Otto Heinrich Schindewolf
German paleontologist
Earl Douglass
American paleontologist
Alfred Sherwood Romer, 1965
Alfred Sherwood Romer
American biologist
George Gaylord Simpson
American paleontologist
Henry Fairfield Osborn
Henry Fairfield Osborn
American paleontologist
Edward Drinker Cope, c. 1889
Edward Drinker Cope
American paleontologist
Marsh, Othniel Charles
Othniel Charles Marsh
American paleontologist
Goode, G. Brown
G. Brown Goode
American zoologist
Oliver Perry Hay
American paleontologist
Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin
British naturalist
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
French biologist
Sir Richard Owen, detail of an oil painting by H.W. Pickersgill, 1845; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Richard Owen
British anatomist and paleontologist
Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire
French naturalist
Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg
German biologist
ameghino, florentino
Florentino Ameghino
Argentine anthropologist
William Lonsdale
British geologist

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