Leo Lesquereux

Charles Léo Lesquereux (November 18, 1806 – October 25, 1889) was a Swiss-born

In 1848 Lesquereux followed Agassiz to the United States, subsequently residing in Columbus, Ohio, where he performed bryological research with William Starling Sullivant (1803–1873). He published a two volume work on the mosses Icones Muscorum (1864). With Sullivant, he published two editions of an exsiccata work called Musci Boreali-Americani Quorum Specimina Exsiccata (1856, 1865).^[2] Lesquereux could read lips in three different languages but his English pronunciation was imperfect as he learned the language after turning deaf. He became the first elected member of the National Academy of Sciences.^[1]

Based on his past studies of European peat bogs, Lesquereux developed theories on the origin of coal formations. As a consultant for state

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References

• "Leo Lesquereux Autobiography Date: 1864-1886". American Philosophical Society. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
• Humphrey, Harry Baker (1961). Makers of North American Botany. New York: Ronald Press Company. pp. 141–144.
• Lesley, J. P. (1890). "Memoir of Leo Lesquereux 1806–1889" (PDF). Biographical Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences: 187–212.
• Schmidt, Andy (2003). "Leo Lesquereux". Earth Science Department, Emporia State University.
• Smith, Annie Morrill (1909). "Leo Lesquereux 1806–1889". The Bryologist. 12 (5): 75–78.
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• Tritt, Donald G., "Leo Lesquereux, the Arduous Path of a Nineteenth Century Natural Scientist," pp. 1–122 in Leo Lesquereux, Letters Written From America, 1849-1853. Rockland, Maine: Picton Press, 2006. (465 pp.)
  ISBN 0897258037

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