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lume of the Transactions of the Lin- 
naean Society. An extract of this 
work is given in the Bulletin de la 
Societe Philomatique. 
“ On the Classification of the Natural 
Tribes of Insects, Notonectidea,” pub- 
lished in the twelfth volume of the 
above mentioned Transactions. 
“ Description of some new genera and 
species of Animals discovered in 
Africa,” by T. C. Bowdich, a half 
sheet in 4to. 
“ Zoological Miscellany,” 3 vols. 8vo. 
London, 1817. 
“On the Genera and Species of Pro- 
boscideous Insects,” 1 vol. 8vo. with 
plates. Edin. 1817. 
“Appendix, No. 10, to a general notice 
of the animals taken by Mr. John 
Cranch, during the expedition to ex- 
plore the source of the river Zaire,” 
4to. 
Various articles in the Dictionnaire des 
Sciences Naturelles, relative to the 
Crustacea, and Memoirs in the Lin- 
nsean Transactions. 
Le Cl. — Le Clerc, naturalist at 
Laval, author of 
“ Observations sur la corne du Psile de 
Bose,” presented to the Academie 
des Sciences, in 1815, and of other 
interesting observations. 
Lec., or Le C. — Le Conte, 
an American naturalist, and officer 
in the service of the United States. 
Author of various memoirs on Quad- 
rupeds, Reptiles, &c., published in 
the Journal of the Academy of Natu- 
ral Sciences of Philadelphia. 
Lefebv. — Lefebvre (Alexan- 
der), a French naturalist. 
Has published in the Annales de la So- 
ciete Linneenne, a description of se- 
veral new Insects taken by him in 
Sicily, and that of three Lepidoptera. 
Legaut (Francois), a Protestant 
of Burgundy, who sought refuge 
in Holland. 
“ Voyages et Aventures de Fr. Leguat 
et de ses Compagnons,” 2 vols. 12mo. 
London, 1720., They contain good 
figures of various animals. 
Leisler. 
Author of a Supplement to Bechstein’s 
Birds of Germany. Hanau, 1812, 
Lepel. — Lepelletier de Saint 
Fargeau (Amedee), a naturalist of 
Paris. Author of 
“ Monographie des Chrysis des Envi- 
rons de Paris,” in the Ann. du Mus. 
d’Hist. Nat., No. 58. 
“ Memoire sur les Araignees ” in the 
Bulletin de la Societe Philomathique, 
April 1813, No. 67. 
“ Monographia Tenthredinetarum Sy- 
nonymia Extricata,” 1 vol. 8vo. 
Paris, 1823. 
Jointly with M. de Serville, of the arti- 
cle on Insects in the tenth volume of 
the Encyclopedic Methodique. 
He has communicated to the Academie 
des Sciences, Observations on the 
coition of different species of Volu- 
cella, a genus of Dipterous Insects. 
Leske (N. G.), Professor at 
Leipsick, and subsequently at Mar- 
burg, born 1752, died 1786. 
“ Museum Leskeanum, Regnum Ani- 
male,” 1 vol. 8vo. with coloured 
plates. Lips. 1789. 
I also quote him for his enlarged edition 
of “ Klein’s Treatise on the Echini,” 
1 vol. 4to. Lips. 1778. 
Less. — Lesson (R. P.), natu- 
ralist, jointly with M. Garnot, of 
Duperrey’s Expedition in the Co- 
quille. 
These two naturalists have edited the 
Zoological part of the narrative of 
the above expedition ; that part is not 
yet completed. M. Lesson is also the 
author of the 
“ Manuel de Mammalogie,” 1 vol. 
12mo. Paris. 1827. 
“ Manuel d’Ornithologie,” 2 vols. 12mo. 
Paris, 1820. 
“ Manuel de l’Histoire des Mollusques 
et de leurs Coquilles,” 2 vols. 12mo. 
Paris, 1829. His 
“ Histoire des Oiseaux Mouches,” with 
excellent plates, now being published. 
Lesuer (C. A.), a French natu- 
ralist, from Havre. 
One of the draughtsmen who accom- 
panied Baudin, and one of Peron’s 
most efficient and zealous co-opera- 
tors in Zoological researches. He 
has published some Zoological Obser- 
vations in the Bulletin des Sciences, 
and the prospectus of a great work on 
the Medusae, accompanied by speci- 
mens of several of the plates. He 
has also furnished various papers for 
