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ing, and cataloguing its collections. The institution, in fact, was 
in a great degree the work of his hands. 
Maj. Leconrr’s labors in this field properly belong to this period. 
This eminent naturalist has never published much on the subject, 
but his services have been invaluable. There is one paper from 
his pen, describing some southern Coleoptera, in the Annals of the 
New York Lyceum of 1824, and a monograph of the family 
Histeride with outline figures, in the Boston Academy’s Journal 
of 1845. He contributed largely to that splendid foreign work, 
Borspuvat et Leconte Histoire Generale des Lépidoptéres de 
? Amerique septentrionale, and I presume furnished most of the 
specimens and drawings with observations on the larvee and their 
transformations. His son, Joun Leconre, Jr., is an industrious 
young entomologist, who bids fair to become eminent in the 
science. 
The entomologist next claiming our attention in the order of 
time is Dr. Tuappeus W. Harris of Harvard University. For 
many years he has contributed much to the advancement of the 
science by his valuable papers in the journals. His published 
writings, as far as they have fallen under my notice, are: 1. A 
catalogue of the insects of Massachusetts, appended to Prof. 
Hrrcucocx’s Report on the Geology of that state, 1835. 2. A 
description of some Coleopterous insects, in the Transactions of 
the Natural History Society of Hartford. 3. A prize essay on 
the noxious insects of the genus Melolontha, in the Massachu- 
setts Agricultural Repository and Journal, Vol. X, 1826. 4. A 
discourse before the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, 1832. 
5. A paper on the genus Hispa, in the Journal of the Boston 
Nat. Hist. Soc. 6. Description of Tettigonia vitis, in the Ency- 
clopedia Americana, Vol. VIII. 7. The article Locusta in the 
same work. 8. Descriptions of Coccus, (bark louse,) in the New 
England Farmer, 1828. 9. Description of Pontia oleracea, Ibid., 
1829. 10. A descriptive catalogue of American Sphingide, Sil- 
liman’s Journal, Vol. xxxvr. 11. History of Algeria evitiosa, 
an insect destructive to peach trees.—New England Farmer, Vol. 
V. 12. Description of Algeria Pyri, tbid., Vol. XII. 13. De- 
scription of Arctia pseuderminea, (salt-marsh caterpillar and but- 
terfly,) 1823. 14. Description of Sirex Columba, New England 
Farmer, 1827. 15. Observations on the insects in the barley 
straw, Ibid., 1830. 16. Observations on wheat insects, Ibid., 
