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the State of New York. Young Lea had in- 

 herited a taste for botany from his mother; 

 Vanuxem was also interested in natural his- 

 tory; and the two made frequent geological 

 excursions together in the neighborhood. Mr. 

 Lea's first scientific paper was published in 

 1817; it was "An Account of the Minerals at 

 present known to exist in the Neighborhood 

 of Philadelphia," and appeared in the "Jour- 

 nal " of the Academy of Natural Sciences of 

 Philadelphia. " The American Journal of Sci- 

 ence" was established a few months after- 

 ward, and he became a frequent contributor to 

 its pages. Mr. Lea's marriage, in 1821, to a 

 daughter of Matthew Carey, publisher and 

 writer on political economy, was followed by 

 his admission as a member of the firm of M. 

 Carey & Sons, which was then considered the 

 largest publishing-house in the United States, a 

 connection with which he maintained, through 

 all the changes it underwent, till 1851. Mr. 

 Lea's interest in geology led him to the study 

 of the mollusca ; and for this purpose he im- 

 ported a large collection of shells from China. 

 The examination and description of recent and 

 fossil shells ultimately became the leading ob- 

 ject of his investigations and writings. In an 

 article on the " Northwest Passage," pub- 

 lished in the " American Quarterly Review " 

 in 1828, Mr. Lea expressed the opinion that 

 if the passage was ever made it must be from 

 west to east. This was afterward partly con- 

 fir;ned by Capt. McClure's achievement of the 

 passage in that direction. Visiting Europe in 

 1832, Mr. Lea attended the second meeting of 

 the British Association, at Oxford, and became 

 acquainted with the prominent scientific men 

 of Great Britain and the Continent. During 

 his visit he assisted in the arrangement and 

 naming of the collections of Unionidm in the 

 British Museum, and the Jardin des Plantes. 

 In December, 1833, he presented to the Acad- 

 emy of Natural Sciences, of Philadelphia, de- 

 scriptions, with figures, of two hundred and 

 twenty-one species of shells, which had been 

 sent in to him during his absence, including 

 many new species from Alabama. " A Synop- 

 sis of the Family of Naiades " was published in 

 1836; a "Notice of the Oolitic Formation in 

 North America, with Descriptions of some of 

 its Organic Remains," in 1840. A paper " Upon 

 some Reptilian Foot-marks (Sauropus primoB- 

 vus) recently discovered near Pottsville, Pa.," 

 in the Red Sandstone, in Rogers's Formation 

 XI (Devonian), communicated to the American 

 Philosophical Association, and afterward, in 

 substance to the British Association, in 1849, 

 is worthy of remark as relating to the oldest 

 fossil trace of an air-breathing animal which 

 had at that time been found. A second visit 

 to Europe, in 1853, greatly enlarged Mr. Lea's 

 acquaintance with scientific men, and afforded 

 gratifying evidences of the recognition which 

 he had gained in all countries as a leader in 

 his field of science. In 1858 he published an 

 important memoir on the embryology of the 



Unionidas. He was also much interested in 

 mineralogy, and had accumulated an extensive 

 collection of specimens. The list of his pub- 

 lished papers, from 1817 to 1876, comprises 

 two hundred and seventy-nine titles ; but some 

 of the papers include descriptions of several 

 hundred species. Mr. Lea was elected a mem- 

 ber of the American Philosophical Society in 

 1828, and was also a member or honorary 

 member of a large number of other scientific 

 societies in the United States and Europe. 

 He was President of the Academy of Natural 

 Science of Philadelphia from 1853 to 1858; 

 Vice-President of the American Philosophical 

 Society for several .ears; and President of the 

 American Association in 1860. 



Leveridge, John, an American lawyer, born in 

 New York city in 1792; died there, Feb. 17, 

 1886. He was educated in a private school, 

 studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 

 181 1. During the mayoralty of James Harper 

 in 1844 and 1845 he was Corporation Counsel. 

 He was in full possession of his mental and 

 physical powers until his death. 



Lewis, Dio, an American physician, born in 

 Auburn, N. Y., March 3, 1823 ; died in Yon- 

 kers, N. Y., May 21, 1886. He was educated in 

 the old school of medicine, at the medical de- 

 partment of Harvard College, but became a 

 convert to homoeopathy and practiced it for 

 several years in Buffalo, N. Y. His wife's 

 health failing, he abandoned his practice, went 

 South, and began lecturing upon physiology 

 and hygiene, traveling extensively for eight 

 years. He then settled in Boston, developed 

 his new system of gymnastics, and opened a 

 school for young ladies in Lexington, Mass., 

 where his method of physical training met 

 with much success. But the building was 

 burned down in 1867, and he resumed lectur- 

 ing on hygiene and temperance. He origi- 

 nated the noted Woman's Temperance Crusade 

 in Ohio, published pamphlets and books on 

 health subjects, and published and edited "To- 

 Day," "Dio Lewis's Monthly," "Dio Lewis's 

 Nuggets," and the "Dio Lewis Treasury," the 

 latter being put to press just before his death. 



Lippinrotit, Joslma Ballinger, an American pub- 

 lisher, born in Burlington county, N". J., in 

 1816; died in Philadelphia, Pa., Jan. 5, 1886. 

 He learned the book-selling business at an 

 early age, and at eighteen was in charge of a 

 large store in Philadelphia. In 1836, when 

 twenty years old, he founded the publishing 

 house of J. B. Lippincott & Co., and in Janu- 

 ary, 1868, he established " Lippincott's Maga- 

 zine," a popular monthly publication, and some 

 years later the " Medical Times." In 1875 the 

 house established a London agency to facilitate 

 the importation of European books. The firm 

 have published a large number of books, some 

 of which, like Dr. S. Austin Allibone's " Dic- 

 tionary of Authors," possess a lasting value. 



Loew, Charles E., an American lawyer, born 

 in Germany in June, 1837; died in New York 

 city, April 21, 1886. He was brought to 



