CATALOGUE OF AUTHORS. 483° 
Lec., or Le C.—Lez Conre (Major John), an American natural- 
ist, and officer in the service of the United States. 
Author of various memoirs on Quadrupeds, Reptiles, &c., published in the 
Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, and in the Annals 
of the New York Lyceum. 
Leresv.—Leresvere (Alexander), a French naturalist, 
Has published in the Annales de Societé Linnéenne, a description of several 
new Insects captured by himin Sicily, and that of three Lepidoptera. 
Lecuat (Frangois), a protestant of Burgundy, who sought refuge 
in Holland. 
“ Voyages et Aventures de i'r. Leguat et de ses Compagnons,’’ 2 vols. 12mo 
London, 1720. They contain good figures of various animals. 
LEISLER. 
Author of a Supplement to Bechstein’s Birds of Germany. WHanau, 1812, 
1813. 
Lepret.—LeEpPELLETIER DE Saint Fareedu (Amedée), a naturalist 
of Paris. Author of 
‘‘ Monographie des Chrysis des Environs de Paris,’’ in the Ann, du Mus. 
d’Hist. Nat., No. 58. 
‘Mémoire sur les Araignées,” in the Bulletin de la Societ¢é Philomatique, 
April, 1813, No. 67. 
‘* Monographia Tenthredinetarum Synonymia Extricata,’’ 1 vol. 8vo. Paris, 
1823. 
Jointly with M. de Serville, of the article on Insects in the tenth volume of 
the Encyclopédie de Methodique. 
He has communicated to the Académie des Sciences, Observations on the 
coition of different species of Volucella, a genus of Dipterous Insects. 
Lesxe (N. G.), Professor at Leipsick, and subsequently at Marburg, 
born 1752, died 1786. 
‘‘ Museum Leskeanum, Regnum Animale,’’ 1 vol. Syo, with coloured plates, 
Lips. 1789. 
I also quote him for his enlarged edition of ‘‘ Klein’s Treatise on the Echi- 
ni,’’? 1 vol. 4to. Lips., 1778. 
Less.—Lesson (R. P.), naturalist, jointly with M. Garnot, of Du- 
perrey’s Expedition in the Coquille. 
These two naturalists have edited the Zoological part of the narrative of the 
above expedition; that part is not yet completed. M. Lesson is also author 
of the 
‘Manuel de Mammalogie,’’? 1 vol. 12mo. Paris, 1827. 
‘¢ Manuel d’Ornithologie,’’? 2 vols. 12mo. Paris, 1820. 
‘¢ Manuel de |’ Histoire des Molusques et de leurs Coquilles,’’ 2 vols. 12mo. 
Paris, 1829. His 
“¢ Histoire des Oiseaux Mouches,’’ with excellent plates, now being published. 
Lesuxur (C. A.), a French naturalist, from Havre, residing in 
the United States. 
One of the draughtsmen who accompanied Baudin, and one of Péron’s 
most efficient and zealous co-operators in Zoological researches. He has pub- 
lished some Zoological Observations in the Bulletin des Sciences, and the 
prospectus of a great work on the Meduse, accompanied by specimens of se- 
veral of the plates. He has also furnished various papers for the Journal of 
the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, the Memoires du Mus, d’ Hist. 
Nat., &c. 
Leuxarp (F.§.), author of 
“« Zoological Fragments,’’ Helmstadt, 1819. 
The Mollusca of the Voyage of Ruppel. 
