[December 1883. BULLETIN BROOKLYN ENTOM. SOC. VOL. VI. I 
OBITUARY. 
John L. Le Conte, M. D. 
Doctor Le Conte died on Thursday, Nov. 15th 1883, at 1 o’clock 
p.M., at his residence 1625 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, Pa. 
John Lawrence Le Conte was the son of Major John Eatton Le 
Conte, U. S. A.. and was born in New York, May 1 ath, 1625: oe 
graduated from the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York, 
1846; and six years later he removed to Philarlelphia. 
During the late civil war he entered the army as surgeon of volun— 
teers and was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel and Medical 
Inspector U. S. A. For the last few years he was engaged in the U.S. 
Mint in Philadelphia as Assistant—Inspector. 
Dr. Le Conte inherited the love for natural sciences from his father, 
who was also a distinguished naturalist. He wrote on different subjects 
and was well versed in Zoology and Mineralogy, but he made a special 
study of Entomology, notably of Coleoptera, describing about one half 
of the species known to inhabit the United States. 
His first paper on Coleoptera appeared in 1844 and since that time 
he published over 150 papers, some of which are quite extensive and are 
standard works, as his Classification and his Rhynchophora. A list of 
his entomological writings is appended to this memoir. 
As an Entomologist his fame is of world-wide recognition and he 
was no doubt the greatest on this continent; his name can never die. 
He made quite extensive travels in this country for scientific investi- 
gation, was several times in Europe where he studied the typical collec- 
tions of North American Coleoptera in London and Paris, and he was 
also acquainted with all the leading Entomologists of the world; and 
what we have to appreciate most, he was an excellent teacher and a fast 
friend to our Dr. Horn, with whom he worked in harmony all the time, 
and with whom he edited his Classification of the Coleoptera and the 
Rhynchophora. 
There was never the slightest jealousy between these two friends and 
naturalists, a very refreshing example indeed compared with the enmity 
and personal attacks indulged in by other persons engaged in similar 
pursuits. 
