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Eiuily Josephine Leonard was born in INieriden, Auj^ust 21, 

 1837, and died there July 16, 188-4, in tl'ie 4:7th year of her age. 

 The greater part of her Hfe after 1853, was spent in teaching 

 in pubHc and private schools. She passed the Hai-vard examina- 

 tion for women, and was offered a professorship at Vassal* College. 



Miss Leonard was well read in Greek and Latin, also sjioke 

 French and German, and had a sufficient knowledge of Italian 

 and Spanish to read in those languages. She assisted' Professor 

 Bodies, of Harvard University, in the preparation of his French 

 gi-ammar, and translated from the French a History of Political 

 Economy in Europe, by Jerome Adolphe Blanqui. Miss Leonai'd 

 also assisted jVIr. John J. Lalve, in the preparation of his Cyclo- 

 pedia of PoUtical Economy. 



Miss Leonard was gi*eatly interested in the subject of poHtical 

 ecomony, and accumulated a valuable library on tlie subject. 

 An essay on ' 'Money, " read by her at a convention in Cleveland, 

 Ohio, attracted a great deal of attention at the time, as did also a 

 paper on "Political Economy," read at Portland, Maine, before the 

 "Woman's Congress in 1882. 



In 1880, when the Scientific Association was formed, Miss Leon- 

 ard was one of the earliest and most active members. One of her 

 first papers read before the Association was on the "Definition of 

 Botanical Terms." In February, 1880, she read a paper on "Pol- 

 len, and the Means by Which It is Distributed. " In 1882, at the 

 Darwin meeting of the Association, she read a paper on "Dax'win's 

 Observations and Experiments." 



December 11, 1882, she read a paper on "Stomata and their 

 Functions." June 11, 1883, she read a pai:)er on "Dimorphous and 

 Trimorphous ^Heterostyled Plants." She read at other meetings of 

 the Association, papers on the "Nutrition pf Plants," "Fertiliza- 



