Papers, 1827-1901.

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Papers, 1827-1901.

Principally letters from John Eatton LeConte, John Lawrence LeConte, Joseph LeConte, and Mrs. Jane LeConte Harden to Mrs. Matilda Jane Harden Stevens, Sumner Morrison Ramsey, Mrs. Ann LeConte Stevens, and Louis LeConte pertaining to family matters and natural history.

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Ramsey, Sumner Morrison.

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LeConte, John Eatton, 1784-1860.

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Stevens, Ann LeConte.

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LeConte, John L. (John Lawrence), 1825-1883

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American entomologist John L. LeConte was the son of distinguished entomologist John LeConte. Born in New York and educated as a physician, LeConte's inheritance meant he never had to practice medicine; instead, he continued his father's work in entomology, publishing his first paper at the age of nineteen. He travelled across the United States and later the world collecting and describing insects, especially beetles. Many of his papers were translated and republished in Europe, and the collecti...

Leconte, L.

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LeConte, Joseph, 1823-1901

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Joseph LeConte, born in 1823, graduated from the University of Georgia in 1841. He enrolled in the College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1844 and received an M.D. in 1845. He married Elizabeth Caroline Nisbet in 1847 and established a medical practice in Macon. Because his first love was geology, however, he enrolled in the Lawrence Scientific School of Harvard College in 1850 to study with the famous naturalist Louis Agassiz. Upon completing his studies in 1851 he returned to Georgia and became...

Stevens, Matilda Jane Harden.

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Harden, Jane LeConte.

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LeConte Family.

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The LeConte Family, in particular John Eatton LeConte and John Lawrence LeConte, was active in the natural sciences in Philadelphia and New York City during the nineteenth century. From the description of Papers, 1827-1901. (American Philosophical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 122584249 ...