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Haldeman, Samuel Stehman 1812-
Naturalist; born in Locust Grove, Pa., Aug. 12, 1812; was educated in a classical school in Harrisburg and in Dickinson College.
In 1836 he was assistant to Henry D. Rogers, State geologist of New Jersey, and in the following year he joined the Pennsylvania survey, in which he was engaged till 1842.
He was Professor of Natural Sciences in the University of Pennsylvania in 1851-55, and then took the similar chair in Delaware College.
From 1869 till his death, Sept. 10, 1880, he was Professor of Comparative Philology in the University of Pennsylvania. Professor Haldeman had a wonderfully delicate ear. In 1848 he described in the American journal of Science a new origin of sound which he had discovered in lepidopterous insects.
He also determined more than forty varieties of vocal repertoire in the human voice.
His publications include Fresh-water Univalve Molluska of the United States, a prize essay on Analytical orthography; Zoological contribut