Richard Harlan
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Richard Harlan
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Richard Harlan (September 19, 1796 – September 30, 1843) was an American naturalist, zoologist, physicist and paleontologist. He was the author of Fauna Americana (1825) and American Herpetology.[1]
Harlan was born in Philadelphia and graduated in medicine from the University of Pennsylvania. In 1821 he was elected professor of comparative anatomy in the Philadelphia museum. He died of apoplexy in New Orleans, Louisiana.[1]
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- ^ a b Howard Atwood Kelly (1920). A Cyclopedia of American Medical Biography: Comprising the Lives of Eminent Deceased Physicians and Surgeons from 1610 to 1910. W.B. Saunders Company. p. 492. http://books.google.com/books?id=GPssAAAAYAAJ. Retrieved 6 May 2012.
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