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Ives, Eli (1779-1861). Physician and botanist; graduate of Yale, 
1799; practiced medicine at New Haven, with his father, 1801-13 ; 
became professor at Yale upon the establishment of the medical 
school in 1813, and so continued until his retirement in 1852. 
He devoted much time to his botanical garden. He published 
an account of the vegetation of New Haven in Dwight’s “ Statisti- 
cal account” (1811), and was one of the authors of the “Catalogue 
of plants found within five miles of Yale College” (1831). Several 
of his botanical papers appeared in the American Journal of Science. 
James, Edwin (1797-1861). American physician; botanist and geolo- 
gist of Long’s expedition to the Rocky Mountains of Colorado in 
1819-20; editor of the published report of that expedition. 
Lamarck, Jean Baptiste Antoine Pierre Monnet de (1744~1829). 
French naturalist; famous first as a botanist, and later for many 
years as professor of zoology at the museum of natural history in 
Paris. 
LeConte, John Eatton (1784-1860). American botanist and ento- 
mologist; topographical engineer, United States army; one of the 
founders of the Lyceum of Natural History of New York. 
LeConte, Lewis (1782-1838). Physician; graduate of Columbia Col- 
lege; planter in Georgia; known to his contemporaries as an 
excellent botanist, but he published nothing, and is consequently 
not as well known to the botanists of to-day as his younger brother 
John Eatton Le Conte. 
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Lederer, Ignaz Ludwig Paul von (1769-1849). Austrian baron; 
consul-general to the United States; mineralogist; collected and 
sent home plants while in America (cf. Flora 9: 242, 270.: 1825). 
LeSueur, Charles Alexandre (1778-1846). French zoologist and 
author; with the French exploring expedition to Australia in 1809- 
05, shipping as a member of the crew of “Le Geographe,” but 
advanced early in the voyage to an important place on the scien- 
tific staff. In 1815 he accompanied Maclure to America, and with 
him settled in 1825 at New Harmony, Indiana, where he remained 
until 1837, when he returned to France. 
Lindley, John (1799-1865). Famous British botanist; author of 
numerous books, especially on plant classification in general and 
on orchids; for nearly forty years the mainspring of the Royal 
Horticultural Society; founder of the ‘Gardeners Chronicle” in 
1841, and its editor until his death. 
