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the example and influenced by the persuasion of his friend (and 

 relative, it is said) James Roosevelt Bayley, afterward Bishop of 

 Newark and Archbishop of Baltimore, he transferred his allegiance 

 from the Protestant Episcopal Church to the Roman Catholic 

 Church, July 4, 1846. The last years of his life were spent in 

 Philadelphia, whither he removed with his son early in the year 

 1852. His entire herbarium of North American plants (much 

 depleted, it is believed, by the generosity with which he had 

 accomodated his importunate friends) was presented to the Acad- 

 emy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia in April of that year; 

 and after his death, November 21, i860, his fresh- water mollusca 

 were added to the collections of the Academy. 



The best account of LeConte' s life from a botanical standpoint 

 is probably that of Asa Gray in the Botanical Gazette (8:197-199. 

 18S3J ; this has been reprinted, in an abbreviated form and with 

 characteristic inaccuracy, in Harshberger's "Botanists of Phila- 

 delphia" (149-15 1. 1899). Some very interesting reminiscences 

 of LeConte were secured from a former member of his household 

 and published by Greene in Pittonia (1:303-311. 1889). Ac- 

 cording to Harshberger, there is a painting of Major LeConte in 

 Philadelphia, in the library of the American Philosophical Society. 



The published scientific papers of LeConte were very few, in 

 view of the extent of his observations and studies; of the entire 

 number, only about one third relate to botany. These, as far as 

 known to me, are: 



1. Catalogus plantarum quas sponte crescentes in insula 

 noveboraeo, observavit. Am. Med. & Phil. Reg. 2:134- 

 142. O. 181 1. 



2. Monographic des especes du genre Paspalum, existantes 

 dans les fitats Unis d'Amerique. Jour, de Phys. 91:283- 

 286. O. 1820. 



3. Observations on the North American species of the genus 

 Utricularia. Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y. 1:72-79. pi. 6. 

 [?Mr] 1824. 



4. Observations on the North American species of the genus 

 Gratiola. Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y. 1:103-108. f?Je] 

 1824. 



5. Observations on the North American species of the genus 

 Ruellia. Ann. I,yc. Nat. Hist. N.Y. 1:140-142. [?SJ 1824. 



