Letter : Pavie [Pavia, Italy], [to S.L. Mitchill, New York, N.Y.], 1820 Nov. 4.

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Letter : Pavie [Pavia, Italy], [to S.L. Mitchill, New York, N.Y.], 1820 Nov. 4.

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The collection consists of a letter from Rusconi to Mitchill, and an undated and unaddressed note, possibly by Mitchill, concerning Rusconi's theories on Siren lacertinus and Proteus anguinus, specifically on the proper identification of larval and adult forms. A typewritten transcription of the letter is supplied with the original.

2 items ; 25 cm. or smaller.

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eng,

American Museum of Natural History

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Rusconi, Mauro, 1776-1849

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Mauro Rusconi was an Italian embryologist who studied the development of amphibians and fishes. Rusconi was born in Pavia and became a pupil of Spallanzani. In a famous paper, Del Proteo anguino di Laurenti (1819), Rusconi demonstrated that the olm (Proteus) is an adult animal and not a larval form that maintains gills during development. Some of Rusconi's other research concerned the reproduction of the salamander and the artificial insemination of fish. His most import...

Mitchill, Samuel L. (Samuel Latham), 1764-1831

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Physician Joseph Carson taught medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. The College of Philadelphia's Medical School, founded in 1765, became known as the University of Pennsylvania, Dept. of Medicine In 1779. From the guide to the Joseph Carson letters, 1789-1858, 1789-1858, (American Philosophical Society) Physician and naturalist. From the description of Papers, 1792-1928. (Duke University). WorldCat record id: 35203561 Mitchill (Edinburgh, M.D. 17...