Samuel Haldeman was one of the only Americans, prior to 1859, to write about the process of evolution. Over his lifetime, he engaged in an extraordinarily diverse set of scholarly activities ranging from malacology to chess and philology. Early in his career, he performed geological survey work in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Haldeman attended Dickinson College and eventually held academic positions at the Franklin Institute of Philadelphia, Delaware College, and the University of Pennsylvania. He wrote the first dictionary and analysis of the Pennsylvania Dutch language. In the mid 1840s, he published a paper, “Enumeration of the recent Freshwater Mollusca which Are Common to North American and Europe; With Observations on Species and their Distribution” in which he discussed the process of transmutation. Darwin read this paper and discussed it in correspondence with Charles Lyell (click here for letter) and Joseph Hooker (click here for letter).


Interesting links
Here are some interesting links for you! Enjoy your stay :)Pages
Categories
Archive
- April 2020
- March 2020
- October 2019
- February 2019
- November 2018
- May 2018
- March 2018
- January 2018
- August 2017
- May 2017
- April 2017
- August 2015
- June 2015
- January 2015
- December 2014
- November 2014
- July 2014
- April 2014
- January 2014
- October 2013
- September 2013
- June 2013
- January 2013
- September 2012
- July 2012
- June 2011
- April 2011
- February 2011
- January 2011
- September 2010
- August 2010
- April 2010
- September 2009
- April 2009
- January 2009
- October 2008
- July 2008
- March 2008
- January 2008
- May 2006
- February 2002
- January 2002