54 A CENTURY OF PROGRESS IN THE NATURAL SCIENCES 



Langsdorff, Georg Heineicii von, 1774-1852 



Alden, 19-21; Brewer, 554; Hoicell, 29; HuUcn, 297; KBG: Stilhnan. 308; Swain- 

 son, 231. 



Lanszweeet, L. 



Dean, 2:12, who cites one paper. 



La Pebouse, Jean Francois Galavp de. 1741-1788 



Alden, 9-12; Eastwood, 335; Embacher, 182; A'^BG; Stone, 4; G. Chinard, Le Voyage 

 de Laperouse sur les cotes d I'Alaska et de la Californie (1786), esp. p. 106. 1937; cf. M. 

 Gabriel Marcel, bibliog. of La Perouse in Bull. Soc. Geog. France for 1888. 



Lathrop, Barbour, 1846-(?) 



Fairchild, 104, 302, et passim (portr., 84A) ; D. Fairchild, Exploring for Plants, 328 

 et passim, 1930; and World Grows Round My Door (portr.), 73 et jxissim, 1947; M. S. 

 Douglas in Reader's Digest, 53:67-71 (portr.), Nov., 1948. 



Lay, George Tradescant, (?)-1845. 



Alden, 30-31; Brewer, 534; Britten, 182; Lasegue, 84-85; Van Steenis, 315-316; cf. 

 Notes and Queries, ser. 1, 5:386, 1852. 



LeConte, John Lawrence, 1825-1883 



Carpenter, 58; DAB: Essig, 680-685; Eivan, 248; Meisel, 1:203-204; Palmer, 285; 

 G. H. Horn in Science, 2:783-786, 1883; S. H. Scudder in Nat. Acad. Sci. Biog. Mem., 

 2:261-293, 1886; J. B. Smith in Pop. Sci. Mo., 76:468-469 (portr.), 1910. 



LeConte, Joseph, 1823-1901 



Bade, passim; DAB; Farguhar's Yosemite, 58; Meisel, 1:204; E. W. Hilgard in Nat. 

 Acad. Sci. Biog. Mem., 6:147-218 (portr.), 1909; D. S. Jordan, Days of a Man, passim, 

 1922; L. H. Miller, Lifelong Boyhood, 104-105, 1950: cf. Autobiography of Joseph LeConte, 

 ed. by W. D. Armes, 1903; cf. his A Journal of Ramblings Through the High 

 Sierras of California by the University Excursion Party (1875), reprinted by Sierra 

 Club, 1900; cf. his Flora of the Coast Islands of California in Relation to Recent Changes 

 of Physical Geography, Bull. Calif. Acad. Sci., 8:515-520, 1887. 



Lemmon, John Gill, 1832-1908 



Brewer, 558; DAB: Eivan, 249; H. F. Copeland in Madroiio, 5:77 (portr.); mss. 

 notes in Ewan files; Harold St. John is preparing an account of J. G. Lemmon (cf. 

 Berkeley Gazette for June 9, 1941) the "Professor" in Mabel Craft Deering's story "Kid- 

 naping the Casting Vote" (Sunset Mag., 16:371-378. Feb., 1906) is Lemmon, fide S. B. 

 Parish in mss. Biog. Bot., Vol. 2, Dept. Bot. Lib. Pomona Coll. 



Letcher, Beverly, 1864-1905 

 Essig, 636 (portr.). 



Loi:b, William, 1809-1863 



Brewer, 557; Britten, 191; Eastivood, 343; Sargent. 10:60; Veitch's account re- 

 printed by A. Eastwood in Muhlenbergia, 7:100-103, 1911; cf. A. Eastwood in Leafl. West. 

 Bot., 5:155-156, 1949; cf. Farquhar's Yosemite, 5-13. for survey of early literature on 

 Big Tree but no mention of Lobb. 



LocKiNGTON, William Neale, 1842(?)-1902 



Dean, 2:52-53; D. S. Jordan, Days of a Man, 218, 1922. 



LooMis, Leverett Mills, 1857-1927 



L. B. Bishop in Auk, 46:1-13 (portr.), 1929; T. S. Palmer in Auk, 45:263-264, 1928; 

 H. S. S(warth) in Condor, 30:194-195, 1928. 



LoRQUiN, Pierre Joseph Michel, 1797-1873 



Carpenter, 62; Essig, 694-697 (portr.); F. Grinuell, Jr.. in Eiitom. News, 15:202-204, 

 1904. as "ca. 1800-1877"; cf. J. Grinnell in Univ. Calif. Publ. Zool., 38:318. 1932. and H. 



