Isaac Lea
1792–1886
American naturalist and publisher. President, Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 1858–63; American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1860. Did extensive work on freshwater molluscs, publishing a series of thirteen volumes on the genus Unio.
Sources
ANB
DAB.
Bibliography
ANB: American national biography. Edited by John A. Garraty and Mark C. Carnes. 24 vols. and supplement. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1999–2002.
DAB: Dictionary of American biography. Under the auspices of the American Council of Learned Societies. 20 vols., index, and 10 supplements. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons; Simon & Schuster Macmillan. London: Oxford University Press; Humphrey Milford. 1928–95.
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