appendix b: biographical sketches. 703 



King, Franklin Hiram. 



Born in Whitewater, Wis., June 8, 1848. Graduated from State Normal School, 

 Whitewater, in L872. On Wisconsin geological survey, 1873-1876; professor of nat- 

 ural sciences, River Falls State Normal School, 1878-1888; since 1888, professor of 

 agricultural physics at University of Wisconsin. 



Kitchell, William. Geologist. 



Born in East Madison, N. J., April 21, 1827; died, December 29, 1861. Studied medi- 

 cine, but did not engage in its practice. Taught natural sciences in Newark Institute, 

 and, about 1850, went to Elurope and studied in the Mining School at Freiberg, 

 Germany. In 1854-1856, State geologist of New Jersey. 

 Lapham, Increase Allen. Naturalist. 



Born in Palmyra, N. Y., March 7, 1811; died near < ><onomowoc, Wis., September, 

 1876. An all-round scientist and educator; author of many papers on botany, clima- 

 tology, archaeology, cartography, and geology. Chief geologist of Wisconsin, 1873- 

 1875. 



Biogr. N. H. Winchell, American Geologist, XIII, 1894, pp. 1-38. 

 Lea, Isaac. Conchologist and mineralogist. 



Born in Wilmington, Del., March 4, 1792; died in Philadelphia, Pa., December 

 8, 1886. Trained to mercantile life in Philadelphia, retiring from business in 1851. 

 Was an authority on the Unionida?, of which he made a very large collection, subse- 

 quently willed, together with his large and valuable collection of minerals and gems, 

 to the Smithsonian Institution, in Washington. 



Biogr. Pop. Science Monthly, July, 1884, pp. 404-411. 



Wm. H. Oall, Some American Conchologists. Proe. Biol. Soc. Washington, IV, 1886-88, pp. 118-120. 



Le Conte, John Lawrence. Naturalist. 



Born in New York, May 3, 1825; died in Philadelphia, Pa., November 15, 1883. 

 His work was mainly in entomology. 

 Le Conte, Joseph. Physician and naturalist. 



Born on Woodmanston plantation, Liberty County, Ga., February 26, 1823; died 

 in Yosemite, Cal., July 6, 1901. Of Huguenot and Puritan ancestry. In 1845, gradu- 

 ated from College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York and became practicing 

 physician in Georgia. In 1850, studied at Cambridge under Agassiz; in 1852, profes- 

 sor of science at Oglethorpe University, Midway, Ga.; in 1853-1856, professor of 

 natural history at University of Georgia, Athens, Ga. ; in 1857-1868, professor of 

 chemistry and geology at South Carolina College, Columbia; in 1869, called to Uni- 

 versity of California to till chair of botany, zoology, and geology, remaining there 

 until his death. A voluminous writer on geology and kindred subjects. 



Biogr. S. B. Christy, Trans. Amer. Inst. Min. Engs., XXXI, 1902, pp. 765-793. 

 Leidy, Joseph. Vertebrate paleontologist. 



Born in Philadelphia, Pa., September 9, 1823; died in Philadelphia, Pa., August 

 30, 1891. Educated as a physician, and in 1844, assistant in chemical laboratory of 

 Doctors Hare and J. B. Rogers. In 1846, demonstrator of anatomy in t'he Franklin 

 Medical College. In 1852, substituted for Doctor Horner as professor of anatomy in 

 the University of Pennsylvania, and in 1853, on the death of Doctor Horner, elected 

 to full professorship. In 1871, appointed professor of natural history in Swarthmore 

 College. Was one of the first Americans to take up the study of vertebrate fossils, 

 and was prominently identified with the early Hayden and other western geological 

 and geographical surveys. 



Biogr. E. J. Nolan, Pop. Sci. Monthly, XVII, Sept. 1880, pp. 684-91. 

 Lesley, J. Peter. Topographer and geologist. 



Born in Philadelphia, September 17, 1819, of Scotch extraction; died in Milton, 

 Mass., June 1, 1903. In 1839-1841, assistant on the State survey of Pennsylvania 

 under H. D. Rogers, mainly in the capacity of topographer. In 1847, became pastor 



