at the end of the sessions, in each year, and that the officers thus elected 

 serve at the meetings of the club the following year. This was seconded, 

 and a resolution to that effect was adopted. 



The Secretary then read the following paper, Dr. Coding not being 

 in attendance. 



BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH of WILLIAM LeBARON, 



l.\te st.\te entomologist of illinois. 



By Dr. F. W. Coding. 



William LeBaron was born Oct. 17, 18 14, in North Andover, 

 Mass., and was the son oi Dr. Lemuel divnl Mnrtha LeBaron. His father 

 was a physician of considerable note, and his paternal grandfather a 

 minister. His maternal grandsire, Dr. Thomas Kittredge, was a surgeon 

 whose fame extended from Maine to Washington and was one of a long 

 line of physicans. Thus it is plain that Dr. LeBaron inherited studious 

 habits and scientific tastes, and even his life study was decided upon 

 from earliest childhood. 



The neighboring cities soon attracted his less studious brothers, and 

 upon William devolved the care of the aged mother and grandmother, 

 both of whom he attended through long illnesses and closed their eyes in 

 death before he was twenty-five years old. 



His early education was acquired under the iron rule of Dr. Putnam 

 whose school for boys was famed in those days, attracting from far and 

 near many who afterward attained distinction in their several vocations. 

 Among his school-mates he was beloved and respected, one of whom 

 said of him: "He was the boy with the best judgement among us. In 

 any dispute we always called upon William to decide; for he was always 

 so fair and so true, that we were all willing to abide by his decisions." 



From childhood he evinced a strong love of nature and devoted his 

 leisure hours to studying her in her various branches. First Ornithology 

 and then Botany attractt^d his attention; and having made an exhaustive 

 collection of specimens in each of these departments, he turned his 

 attention to Entomology to which he ever after remained faithful. 



The doctor studied medicine under the tutorship of his uncle. Dr. 

 Joseph Kittredge, in North Andover, and for several years he practiced 

 there. We are informed by his family that he graduated from Harvard 

 Medical College in 1857, hence he must have returned from the West 

 to complete his medical studies. 



In 1 84 1 he married Sarah Jarvis Carr of Ellsworth, Maine, and 

 in 1844 removed to Geneva, Kane Co., 111. (the old homestead being in 

 sight of the place where I am now sitting), where the remainder ot his 



