Richard Harlan
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Richard Harlan (September 19, 1796, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – September 30, 1843, New Orleans, Louisiana) was an American naturalist, zoologist, physicist and paleontologist.
Harlan was the author of Fauna Americana (1825) and American Herpetology. He 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.
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