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Historical Bibliography Updated: December 15, 2019

Report on the state of the anatomical museum of the University of Pennsylvania, 30th June, 1824.

Publication Details

Philadelphia: Published by Order of the Trustees, 1824 CE.

This 36-page pamphlet is the earliest printed record of Caspar Wispar's museum collection. It was augmented by William Horner, whom Wistar appointed to manage the collection. The combined collections beame known as the Wistar and Horner Museum. Later the collections were managed by Joseph Leidy. In 1892 they became the fondation of the Wistar Institute, the first independent medical research facility in the United States. Digital facsimile from the U.S. National Library of Medicine at this link.

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Entry Number#11315
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Author Bio Linksnaccooperative.org ↗
External URLreport-on-the-state-of-the-anatomical-museum-of-the-university-of-pennsylvania-30th-june-1824

Geographic Context

Publication place: Philadelphia