Isaac Lea
Isaac Lea (born March 4, 1792 in Wilmington , Delaware , † December 8, 1886 in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania ) was an American conchologist , geologist and businessman. He was a co-owner of a large publishing house in Philadelphia. He devoted his free time to collecting and studying natural history. He was particularly interested in the molluscs . His collections can now be found in the National Museum of Natural History in Washington DC. In 1860 he was president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science .
He is the father of historian Henry Charles Lea and chemist Matthew Carey Lea .
Honors
Thomas Rupert Jones named the clam shell genus Leaia JONES after Isaac Lea in 1862.
Initial descriptions
Isaac Lea is the first to describe the mussel shawl Cypricardia Leidyi , today: Leaia Leidyi (LEA 1855) and type of the genus Leaia JONES 1862.
Fonts
- Observations on the Genus Unio (13 volumes, 1827–74)
- Contributions to Geology, Philadelphia 1833 Archive
- A Synopsis of the Family of Naiades, Philadelphia 1838 Archive
- Fossil Footmarks in the Red Sandstones of Pottsville (1852)
- Description of a New Mollusk from the Red Sandstone near Pottsville. In: Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia Vol. 7 (1854-1855), pp. 340-341
- A Synopsis of the Family Unioidae, Philadelphia 1870 Archives
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| SURNAME | Lea, Isaac |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American conchologist, geologist, and businessman |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 4, 1792 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wilmington , Delaware |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 8, 1886 |
| Place of death | Philadelphia , Pennsylvania |