ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 



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Philadelphia, Pa., June, 191 i. 



It will probably be of interest to the younger entomologists 

 to know something of Major John Eatton LeConte, whose pic- 

 ture appears on the covers of this year's issues of the News. 

 and will be placed on the title-page of the completed volume. 

 "He was born in Shrewsbury, New Jersey, in 1784 and died in 

 i860, having lived most of his life in New York. Entering the 

 corps of topographical engineers of the United States Army 

 with the rank of captain, at the age of thirty-four, he remained 

 in the government service until 1831, attaining the rank of 

 brevet-major in 1828, for ten years' faithful service. His tastes 

 were many sided, but his special studies, those which were the 

 passion of his life, were in natural history. Before he entered 

 the engineer corps he published a catalogue of the plants of 

 New York City in the journal edited by Dr. Hosack, under 

 whom his brother had studied medicine, and in subsequent 

 years, during his connection with the army and afterwards, 

 he published special studies on Urtricularia, Gratiola, Puellia, 

 Tillandsia, Viola and Pancratium, as well as on our native 

 grape-vines, tobacco and pecan-nut. He published also a 

 variety of papers on mammals, reptiles, batrachians and Crus- 

 tacea, mostly of a systematic character, and collected a vast 

 amount of material for the natural history of our insects, as 

 may be seen by a single installment that was published in 



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