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brother, of Stephen Elliott, of the Scotch botanist Gordon,* of 

 Dr. William Baldwin, and others. f J 



Stephen Elliott, of Charleston, South Carolina [b. 1711, d. 

 1830], was a graduate of Yale in the class of 1791, and, while 

 prominent in the political and financial circles of his State, found 

 time to cultivate science. He founded in 1813 the Literary and 

 Philosophical Society of South Carolina, and was its first presi 

 dent ; and in 1829 was elected Professor of Natural History and 

 Botany in the South Carolina Medical College, which he aided 

 to establish. He published " The Botany of South Carolina and 

 Georgia" (Charleston, 1821-27;, having been assisted in its 

 preparation by Dr. James McBride ; and had an extensive 

 museum of his own gathering. The Elliott Society of Natural 

 History, founded in 1853, or before, and subsequently con 

 tinued under the name of the Elliott Society of Science and 

 Art, 1859-75, was named in memory of this public-spirited 

 man. 



Jacob Green [b. 1790, d. 1841], at different times professor 

 in the College of New Jersey and in Jefferson Medical College, 

 was one of the old school naturalists, equnlly at home in all 

 of the sciences. His paper on Trilobites (1832) was our first 

 formal contribution to invertebrate paleontology ; his "Account of 

 some new species of Salamanders, " one of the earliest steps in 

 American herpetology ; his " Remarks on the Unios of the United 

 States, "|| the beginning of studies subsequently extensively prose 

 cuted by Lea and some other entomologists. He also wrote upon 

 the crystallization of snow, and was the author of "Chemical 



* London's Gardeners' Magazine. 



t A. H. Stephens in JoJinson's Cyclopaedia, p. 17^52. 



| The LeConte family deserves a place in Galto's "Hereditary Ge 

 nius." Prof. John LeConte, the physicist, and Prof. Joseph LeConte, 

 the geologist, were sons of Dr. Lewis LeConte; while Dr. J. L. LeConte 

 is the son of his brother, Major LeConte. 



Contributions of the Maclurian Lyceum, i, Jan., 1827, p. 3. 



H Ibid, i, ii, 41. 



