BOTANICAL MUSEUM LEAFLETS 
HARVARD UNIVERSITY 
Campripar, Massacuuserrs, AuGusr 10, 1934 
VoL, 2, No. 10 
LEO LESQUEREUX 
BY 
Winwiam C. DARRAH 
THE NAME OF AGassiIZ is, in a historical sense, asso- 
ciated with two others, Guyot and Lesquereux. ‘These 
three men, natives of Switzerland, colleagues at the A- 
‘ademy of Neuchatel, and confreres in observational sci- 
ence, emigrated to America upon the suppression of the 
Academy by the Geneva Revolutionary Council in 1848. 
Agassiz came first and at his urging came the others. 
Lesquereux landed in Boston in the latter part of the 
same year with his wife and five children. He was then 
more than forty years old, deaf, and unable to speak a 
single word of English. 
Leo Lesquereux was born on November 18, 1806 
in the village of Fleurier, Canton of Neuchatel. His par- 
ents were Huguenot, and of moderate circumstances. 
His father was a manufacturer of watch springs. Young 
Lesquereux attended the village school and later attended 
college in Neuchatel in preparation for the University. 
He earned his tuition by tutoring, since his father could 
afford only the cost of board. At the age of 19 he was 
ready for the University, but found he was unable to fi- 
nance the expense of education in Germany. Consequent- 
ly he accepted a professorship in French at Eisenach, 
Saxony. Aftera few years he became engaged to a young 
woman, and accepted a more remunerative call at La 
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