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of eastern North America. His attention was called to the shells 
in the Claiborne bluffs in 1829. His “contributions to Geology ” 
in 1838, in which year he published a series of papers, and 
included all in a volume of 226 pages, embraced discriptions and 
figures of 221 species of Tertiary shells, from Maryland and New 
Jersey as well as Alabama. Later he described fossil shells, of 
Oolitic age from Grenada; Unio-like species from the Carboni- 
ferous of Pennsylvania; a fossil reptile (for which he instituted 
the genus Clepsysaurus) from the Juratrias of Pennsylvania; a 
paper (in 1854), on large foot-marks from the Subcarboniferous 
red sandstone of Pottsville, of which he published a grand litho- 
graphic plate, of natural size—the discovery carrying amphibians 
back geologically to an earlier period than before known; and 
papers on some feldspars. 
The establishment‘of this Journal in 1818 owes much to Dr. 
Lea, who responded with zeal to a request from Professor Silli- 
man for his “kind countenance and favor” and for “ contributions 
to its pages,” by procuring at once and sending on (April 3, 1818) 
the names of more than a dozen subscribers,* the last of whom 
has now passed away in his own decease, after the publication of 
the 132nd volume. 
Mr. Lea was married in 1821 to Miss Carey, daughter of the 
well known Philadelphia publisher, Matthew Carey; and for thirty 
years he was also a partner in the publishing house. Mrs. Lea, 
a companion of congenial tastes and an amateur in botany, espec- 
ially the department of forest trees of America and Europe, died 
in 1873. Three children survive him, Henry Charles Lea, 
Matthew Carey Lea and Miss Frances Lea. 
Mr. Lea became a member of the American Philosophical: 
Society in 1828; was President of the Academy of Natural 
Sciences of Philadelphia from 1853 to 1858; and was elected to 
honorary membership in many foreign scientific societies. He 
received the degree-of Doctor of Laws from Harvard in 1852. 
A complete detailed list of the publications of Dr. Lea, with 
a biographical sketch, is contained in number 23 of the Bulletin 
of the United States National Museum, prepared by N. P. 
ScuppEr. It speaks of Dr. Lea in his 94th year, as still “ blessed 
with good health, his mental and physical faculties unimpaired ;” 
and so it continued to be until ten days before his decease. 
The Elements of Chemical Arithmetic with a short system of Elementary 
Qualitative Analysis, by J. Milnor Coit, Ph.D. 89 pp. 8vo. Boston, 1886 (D. C. 
Heath & Co.) 
A Manual of Lithology, by Epwarp H. WiuLiams. 135 pp. 16mo. New 
York, 1886 (John Wiley & Sons). 
Causeries Scientifiques, Decouvertes et Moentions, Progrés de la Science et de 
VIndustrie, par Henri de Parvill, 25 tom année, 1885. Paris, 1887 (J. Rothschild). 
A popular volume telling of some of the recent advances made in scientific thought 
or investigation. 
Lectures and Essays by the late Wm. K. Clifford, F.R.S., edited by Leslie 
Stephen and Frederick Pollock with an introduction by F. Pollock. Second 
Edition. 443 pp. 8vo. London and New York, 1886 (Macmillan & Co.). 
* A list of these subscribers, in a letter from Dr. Lea, is published in volume 
xxvi, 1883, of this Journal, on page 79. 
