| 词条 | Richard Harlan |
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Harlan was born in Philadelphia, to Joshua Harlan, a wealthy Quaker merchant, and his wife Sarah, one of their ten children. He was three years older than his brother Josiah Harlan, who would become the first American to visit Afghanistan and who was the presumed inspiration for Rudyard Kipling's story The Man Who Would Be King. He graduated in medicine from the University of Pennsylvania taking time off during his studies to spend a year at sea as a ship's surgeon for the British East India Company. In 1821 he was elected professor of comparative anatomy in the Philadelphia museum. One of his passions was the collection and study of human skulls. At its peak, his collection contained 275 skulls, the largest such collection in America.[3] He died of apoplexy in New Orleans, Louisiana.[2] In 1834, Harlan described and named Basilosaurus ("king lizard"), a genus of early whale, erroneously assuming he had found a Plesiosaurus-like dinosaur.[4] Works
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References1. ^{{Cite journal|last=|first=|date=January 1826|title=Harlan's Fauna Americana|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=daNKAAAAcAAJ|journal=The North American Review|publisher=Frederick T. Gray|volume=XXII|issue=L|pages=120–136|via=Google Books}} 2. ^1 {{cite book|author=Howard Atwood Kelly|title=A Cyclopedia of American Medical Biography: Comprising the Lives of Eminent Deceased Physicians and Surgeons from 1610 to 1910|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GPssAAAAYAAJ|accessdate=6 May 2012|year=1920|publisher=W.B. Saunders Company|page=492}} 3. ^{{cite book|author=Ben MacIntyre|title=The Man Who Would Be King: The First American in Afghanistan|year=2004|publisher=Farrar, Straus and Giroux}} 4. ^{{Cite journal | last = Harlan | first = R. | title = Notice of fossil bones found in the Tertiary formation of the State of Louisiana | year = 1834 | journal = Transactions of the American Philosophical Society | volume = 4 | pages = 397–403 | oclc = 63356837 | jstor = 1004838 | ref = harv}} Further reading
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