704 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1904. 



of a Congregational Church in Milton, Mass. This he soon resigned, and thereafter 

 devoted himself to science. Was United States commissioner at the Paris Exposition 

 in 1867. In 1872, professor of geology and dean of faculty in scientific department of 

 the University of Pennsylvania. In 1874, chief geologist of the second geological 

 survey of Pennsylvania. 



Biogr. Pop. Sci. Monthly, Sept 1884, pp. 693-5. 



Bull. Geol. Soc. Amer., XV, 1904, p. 532. 



Persifor Frazer in American Geologist, XXXII, No. 3, 1903, pp. 132-6. 



Lesquereux, Leo. Botanist and paleobotanist. 



Born in Fleurier, Neuchatel, Switzerland, November 18, 1806; died in Columbus, 

 Ohio, October 25, 1889. Came to America in 1848 and worked first at Boston with 

 Agassiz and subsequently with Sullivant in Columbus, Ohio. Served as paleobotanist 

 on geological surveys of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Illinois, Kentucky, and Arkansas; also 

 in a similar capacity on the U. S. Geological Survey under F. V. Hayden. 



Biogr. Edward Orton, American Geologist, X, 1890, pp. 284-296. 



L. R. McCabe in Pop. Sci. Monthly, XXX, Apr. 1887, pp. 835-40; XXXVIII, Dec. 1889, p. 288. 



Lieber, Oscar Montgomery. Geologist. 



Born in Boston, Mass., September 18, 1830; died in Richmond, Va., June 27, 1862. 

 In 1850-51, State geologist of Mississippi; in 1854-55, State geologist of Alabama; 

 and in 1856-1860, State geologist of South Carolina. 



Biog. Lamb's Biog. Diet, of IT. S. 

 Little, George. Geologist. 



Born in Tuscaloosa, Ala., February 11, 1838. Graduated from University of Ala- 

 bama in 1856; professor natural sciences, Oakland College, Mississippi, 1860-61; 

 State geologist of Mississippi, 1866-1872; professor of mineralogy and geology, Uni- 

 versity of Mississippi, 1866-1874 and 1881-1889; State geologist of Georgia, 1874-1881; 

 professor of geology and agriculture, University of Georgia, 1878-1880. 

 Litton, Abram. Chemist. 



Born in Dublin, Ireland, May 20, 1814; died in St. Louis, Mo., September 23, 1901. 

 Came to America about 1817. For two seasons connected with geological survey 

 under D. D. Owen, and reported on lead mines of southeast Missouri in the Second 

 Annual Report of the State Survey. 

 Locke, John. 



Born in Lempster, N. H., February 19, 1792; died in Cincinnati, Ohio, July 10, 1856. 

 By profession a physician and teacher. In 1835-36, professor of chemistry in the 

 Medical College of Ohio. In 1837-1839, assistant to W. W. Mather on the State geo- 

 logical survey of Ohio. In 1839-1844, assistant to D. D. Owen in the survey of the 

 mineral lands of the United States. In 1847-48, aid to Jackson in surveys of the 

 mineral lands of Michigan. More widely known for his magnetic and astronomical 

 researches than as a geologist. 



Biogr. N. H. Winchell, American Geologist, XIV, 1894, pp. 341-56. 

 Logan, William Edmond. Geologist. 



Born in Montreal, Canada, April 20, 1798; died in Castle Malgwyn, Llechryd, 

 South Wales, June 22, 1875. Educated in Scotland and passed his early manhood in 

 England and Wales, but returned to America in 1840. During 1842-1870, director 

 of the geological survey of Canada. 



Biogr. B. J. Harrington, Life of Sir Wm. E. Logan, Montreal, 1883. Also Geol. Soc, London and 

 Canadian Naturalist, n. ser., VIII, No. 1, 1875, 



Macfarlane, James. Lawyer. 



Born in Gettysburg, Pa., September 2, 1819; died in Towanda, Pa., October 12, 

 1885. Engineer of the North Branch Canal; a leading member of the bar at Towanda; 

 a successful coal operator and railway builder. Author of The Coal Regions of 

 America and An American Geological Railway Guide. 

 Biogr. I. C. White, American Geologist, VII, 1891, pp. 145-149. 



