om'lTAUIKS, AMKUH'AN. (LKA LE.) 



ie u |M.rtrnit painter of high merit, und wan 



much esteemed u* u restorer of old paintings uml as 



nil expert on tin- diameter ali<l value <>t paintings ill 



I. Amon,' his patrons in |H>rtruituie were three 



lions of tin- A-t>r familv, tlic I'.eimoiits, l>r. 



r-Wdvce M.irkcr. (ioold Redmond, and nmny well 



known eiti/ciis of New York, ISoston, Krooklv n, and 



Philadelphia. Hr was for many year*, a member of 



tin- National Academy ot Design. 



Lea, Albert, civil engineer, l>om in Tennessee, m 



July, IMI-V. died ill ( 'orsicami. TeX., .lull. 17, l^'.M. 



Hi' uas irntduated at tin- I'nited States Military 

 n\ in lv:i, was assigned to duty at Fort Gib- 

 son, then 01: tin- extreme Western frontier, and was 



placed in command of a military surveying cxpedi- 

 timi to tin 1 rcirioii of '. Minnesota river in ]s;;r,. Soon 

 after coiiiplrtiiiu' inn! reporting on tin- expedition, liu 

 resigned t'roiii tin 1 army and engaged in civil ciiiji- 

 necnii!_ p . In 1 S 41 lie was appointed chief clerk in tin- 

 War Department at Washington, and tor a time dur- 

 ing I'n-sidrnt Fillmore's administration ho was acting 



ry of War. Siilisi-inu-ntly !H' became IV 

 of Mathematics in tlic 1'nivc-rsity <>t Hast Tcnm --~i <, 

 and alter se\eti years' service went to Texas in tlic 

 interest of several railroad enterprises. During the 

 civil war In- served mi tin- stuff ot Gen. Magruder, of 

 the Confederate army, as chief of engineers. A rail- 

 road route and the town of.Alhcrt l,ea. in Minnesota, 

 were named for him. lie had resided in Texas for 

 more than thirty vears, mainly iu Galveston. 



Learned, Amos P., journalist, born in Boston, Mass., 

 in 1 >-_".i; died in I'oiiu'hkcepsic, N. Y., March 8, 1891. 

 He was npprentioed to the printer's tra<le when a boy, 

 in the otliee of the Boston " Transcript," and after 

 working on the- Bottom Shipping List," the" Chrono- 

 type." and the IJoston Atlas." Uvamc. ajrent of the 

 Iiew England Press Association in New York in 

 1859. He lield this office till 1882, when he resigned 

 to take an editorial place on the Now York " Mailand 

 Kxpress," \\ith which he was connected for six years, 

 lie afterward engaged unsuccessfully in manufactur- 

 ing. During his long service as press agent he be- 

 came intimate with the principal puWic men of the 

 country. He was an ardent admirer of Gen. Grant, 

 and as a delegate to the National Republican Conven- 

 <ion at Chicago in 1880 was one of the band of 306 

 who voted steadily to give the ex- President a third 

 nomination. President Arthur appointed him United 

 States consul at Melbourne, Australia, but he de- 

 clined the nftice. 



lie Conte, John, physicist, born in Liberty County, 

 Ga., Dec. i, isis ; died in Berkeley, Cal.," April 29, 

 1891. He was the second son of Louis Le Conte, who 

 followed the sciences with the ability of a scholar and 

 the love of an enthusiast, undertakiinr an investiga- 

 tion for the pleasure, it gave him, and freely giving 

 the results to those who asked for them, ifis uncle, 

 Major John E. Le Conte, of the United States Engi- 

 neers, was an ardent botanist and a frequent visitor 

 to the plantation home of Woodmanston. Under 

 these influences young Le Conte grew to boyhood, 

 and then passed to the care of Alexander 11. Ste'phens, 

 who prepared him for Franklin College, now the 

 University of Georgia, where he was graduated in 

 1888. Choosing medicine as his profession, he was 

 graduated at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, 

 in New York, in 1841. He settled in Savannah, Go., 

 in 1842, and there beiran the practice of his profession, 

 but in 1846 abandoned medicine to accept the chair 

 of Natural Philosophy and Chemistry in Franklin Col 

 lci:e. This post he held until 1866, when he resigned 

 to become lecturer on chemistry in the Coll' 

 Physicians and Surircons, in Ne'u York, but in l-.v. 

 accepted the chair of Natural and Mechanical Phi- 

 losophy created for him at the South Carolina Col- 

 lege, in Columbia. He continued in this place until 

 the college was disbanded by the civil war, when he 

 took charire of the Niter and Min'mir Hutvau ot 

 South Carolina, Imt resumed his professorship in 

 1866, when the I'nivcrsitN "f South Carolina v. 

 organized. In 1869 he was called to the chair of 



, IndiiKtriul Mechanic,., und Philology in the 



I IIIMTMU of ( alilorn:. 



.p-iiMiT president, and in- up tin- nrt 



Ills ..| the lltllM [>|U . Sill.-, .jlielit to 1),, |,l 



rival of President I'aniel C. (iilnnin ln-riti,: 

 the charge 1,1 his chuir, but uguin, when p. 

 Oilman wai. culled to tin- .l.,hn. llpkin- I'niveoitv, 



Pl'ot. l.e I olite I.ecaine, lifst, acting president, and 



then, from |s7.;till LH81, president of the uni> 



continuing in the mean while ( diix-liurge th. 

 of his chair, to which he n-tin-d in 1--1 in 

 tinned to hold until his death. Hin wientirie work 

 extended <>\ . i lilly \i-iirh, and ut Hwt wah in the line 

 of medical investigation, l.ut hubw-mently I 



conlined ailuo.st e.\elllsi\ elv to jih \ hical Hi 



Mcchanii's, heat, soiin.l, li^'la, ami electricit . 



among the subjects studied try him, but ),' 



choice was sound, and to that department ii. 

 he contributed his dis<-o\ ( -r\ ot the sensitivencM of 

 flame to musical vibrations, which lias served a- the 

 starting-point in the exquisite appli. itions that huvo 

 since been worked out bv tin use .,f tlame for the de- 

 tection of sounds too delicate for the ear to ]< : 

 and for the optical analysis of conijxnind tones. His 

 original papers were more than one hundred in num- 

 ber, and were published in scientific journals both in 

 this country and abroad, also in the ' Proceedings of 

 the American Association for the Advancement of 

 Science." to which organixation he served OH general 

 secretary in 1857. During the same year he delivered 

 a course of lectures on the " Physics 'of Meteorology" 

 at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D. C., 

 and in 1867 one of four lectures on the "Stellar Uni- 

 verse " at the Peabody Institute, in Baltimore, Md. 



The degree of LL. D. was conferred on him l.y the 

 University of Georgia in U-T!', and in 1878 ho was 

 elected to the National Aeademv of Science-. He \\ ;u-< 

 a member of the American Philosophical Society and 

 a correspond in ir member of the Philadelphia and 



New York Academies of Science. A trca' 



General Physics.'' nearly completed by him, was de- 

 stroyed in the burniiiLT Ot Columbia, S. C., in 1865. 



Lee, William Henry Fitihngh, military ofticcr. l>rn in 

 Arlington, Ya.. May :;i. 1^:7 : died in Kavciisworth, 

 Ya., <>ct. I.\ ls;il. ' He was the seccnJ son of Gen. 

 Robert K. I.ec, \\as irraduated at HaivniV. ii: Is.'iT, and 

 in the same year was ap|x>inte<l a _'<1 lieutenant in the 

 f.th I'nited States Infantry, ami accompanied Col. 

 Albert Sidney Johnston's military e\jediti'n t> 

 1'tah. In 1859 he resigned hi* oommiaaloD and ap- 

 plied himself to the care of his White lli-Us, 

 on Pamunkev river. At the beginning .!' th> 

 war he raised a company of cavalry for the Co: 



