Leo Lesquereux
1806–89
Swiss-born bryologist and palaeontologist. Moved to the United States in 1848; after brief periods assisting Louis Agassiz and Asa Gray, settled in Columbus, Ohio, where he assisted the bryologist William Starling Sullivant. Employed on geological surveys in the mid-western United States and Pennsylvania. Engaged by Agassiz to organise the palaeobotanical collections at the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, 1867–72.
Sources
DAB
DSB
Rodgers 1968
Sarjeant 1980–96
Sarton 1942
Bibliography
DAB: Dictionary of American biography. Under the auspices of the American Council of Learned Societies. 20 vols., index, and 10 supplements. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons; Simon & Schuster Macmillan. London: Oxford University Press; Humphrey Milford. 1928–95.
DSB: Dictionary of scientific biography. Edited by Charles Coulston Gillispie and Frederic L. Holmes. 18 vols. including index and supplements. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons. 1970–90.
Rodgers, Andrew Denny III. 1968. ‘Noble fellow’: William Starling Sullivant. London and New York: Hafner Publishing.
Sarjeant, William A. S. 1980–96. Geologists and the history of geology: an international bibliography. 10 vols. including supplements. London: Macmillan. Malabar, Fla.: Robert E. Krieger Publishing.
Sarton, George. 1942. Lesquereux (1806–89). Isis 34: 97–108.
