American publisher, conchologist and geologist (1792-1886)
For the English footballer, see Isaac Lea (footballer).
Isaac Lea
Born
(1792-03-04)March 4, 1792
Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.
Died
December 8, 1886(1886-12-08) (aged 94)
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Resting place
Laurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Spouse
Frances Ann Carey
(m. 1821; died 1873)
Children
3 (incl. Henry Charles Lea and Mathew Carey Lea)
Relatives
Mathew Carey (father-in-law)
Isaac Lea (March 4, 1792 – December 8, 1886) was an American publisher, conchologist and geologist. He was a partner in the publishing businesses Matthew Carey & Sons; Carey, Lea & Carey; Carey, Lea & Blanchard; and Lea & Blanchard.
He authored multiple books describing the freshwater mussel genus Unio and named 1,842 species of fifty genera of freshwater and land mollusks. He sparked a scientific controversy amongst geologists when he published about his discovery of fossilized footprints in Mount Carbon, Pennsylvania, that he incorrectly proposed were from a reptile from the Devonian Period over 360 million years old. The fossil has since been identified as that of an amphibian from the Mississippian Age over 330 million years old.
He served as president of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia from 1858 to 1863 and of the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences in 1860.
IsaacLea (March 4, 1792 – December 8, 1886) was an American publisher, conchologist and geologist. He was a partner in the publishing businesses Matthew...
IsaacLea, and implemented several medical and scientific publications. The business operated under various names including Lea Brothers & Co., Lea &...
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IsaacLea Nicholson (January 18, 1844 – October 29, 1906) was an American Episcopal prelate. He was the fifth Bishop of Milwaukee, serving from 1891 until...
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Drinker Cope, Ezra Townsend Cresson, Richard Harlan, Ferdinand V. Hayden, IsaacLea, William W. Jefferis, John Lawrence LeConte, Joseph Leidy, Samuel George...
Murariu, Dumitru; Popa, Luis A. (2007). "New records of Sinanodonta woodiana (Lea, 1834) (Mollusca: Bivalvia: Unionidae) from Eastern Romania". Aquatic Invasions...
Society. 5: 23–119. doi:10.2307/1004939. JSTOR 1004939. Lea, Isaac (1842). "Continuation of Mr. Lea's paper on fresh water and land shells". Transactions...
developed Carey Lea Silver, a photochemical still in use today. Lea was born in Philadelphia on August 16, 1823. His father, IsaacLea was a publisher...
Delaware. He was the older brother of the publisher, IsaacLea and the younger brother of John Lea (1782-1862), who is known for his study of a cholera...
discovered and described (under the name Paludina georgiana) by IsaacLea in 1834. Lea's original text (the type description) reads as follows: Paludina...
to Carey & Lea (1824). Carey retired in 1825, leaving the publishing business to his son, Henry Charles Carey and son-in-law IsaacLea. Lea and Henry Carey...
Graf & Kevin S. Cummings (31 Oct 2021). "species Obovaria arkansasensis (Lea, 1862): specimens". The MUSSEL Project. The University of Wisconsin-Stevens...
Edward Randolph Welles (1874–1888) Cyrus Frederick Knight (1889–1891) IsaacLea Nicholson (1891–1906) William Walter Webb (1906–1933) Benjamin Franklin...
Unionida Family: Unionidae Genus: Epioblasma Species: E. torulosa Subspecies: E. t. rangiana Trinomial name Epioblasma torulosa rangiana (I. Lea, 1838)...
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