Joseph Leidy Diaries and Field Notebooks
1848-1888
1880-1883
Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University
Opens with a narrative of a “Summer excursion to the mountains of Wester North Carolina” in 1880. Trips also include various areas in Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia. Leidy includes lists of botanicals and specimens from trips or the costs and distances of travel. A number of pages toward the end of the book cover Myxomycetes investigations around Wallingford, PA. Includes some amoeba and entomology notations.