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he had formed with great care, and which contained many 

 remarkable types and rare genera of all Orders, a cir- 

 cumstance which he never ceased to lament, although he 

 subsequently commenced the formation of a second col- 

 lection. He retained his energies to the last, his Memoir 

 on the Families allied to the Elateridse being completed 

 shortly before his death. His loss was felt by the ento- 

 mologists of France as that of a father ; and a tomb was 

 erected, by subscription, over his remains in Pere la 

 Chaise. 



LEACH, Dr. William Elford, born at Plymouth in 1790, in 

 1813 was appointed Curator of the Nat. Hist. Depart- 

 ment at the British Museum; between 1814-17 he pro- 

 duced the " Zoological Miscellany" (3 vols.), and " Mala- 

 costraca Podophthalmata, or Descriptions of the British 

 Species of Crabs and Lobsters." He was also author of 

 articles in the "Dictionnaire des Sciences Naturelles," and 

 in the "Edinb.EncycL," and of papers in the Trans. Linn. 

 Soc., Phil. Trans., Oken's " Isis," and the Journ. de Phys. 

 lie enjoyed the friendship of Latreille, whose system he 

 mainly introduced into this country in his various works, 

 more especially in his MSS. which were incorporated by 

 Samouelle in the " Entomologist's Useful Compendium." 

 Dr. Leach remained at the British Museum till 1821, 

 and subsequently resided at Spitchweek Park, near Ash- 

 burton ; the latter years of his life were, however, spent 

 in Italy, his health and intellect being impaired. He 

 died in 1836. 



LIENIG, Madame, of Kokenhusen, in Livonia, Hon. Mem. of 

 the Entom. Soc. of Stettin, authoress of "Verz. der 

 Schmett. Cur- und Liev-lands," in den Schriften der 

 Eigaer Gesellschaft, and of " Lepidopterologische Fauna 

 von Lievland und Cm-land, mit Anmerk. von Zeller " in 

 Oken's "Isis" for 1846. Madame Lienig died in 1855. 



LINNAEUS. Karl Linne was born in 1707 at Roshult, in Sma- 

 land, Sweden, of which parish his father was curate. At 

 sixteen he was apprenticed to a shoemaker ; but a doctor 

 named Rothman, perceiving his bent and his powers, 

 lent him a copy of Tournefort, and afterwards sent him 

 to the University of Lund, placing him under the care of 

 Stobseus, the Professor of Natural History. By the pro- 

 fessor's aid, Linne was enabled to remove to Upsala, 

 whither he was urged by his passion for Natural Hi- 

 story : it was with difficulty that he contrived to live by 

 instructing his fellow-students in Latin ; and it is said 

 that he was even driven to eke out his subsistence by 



