plants found on Manhattan Island. An early ambition to publish an American flora was partially pre-empted when Stephen Elliott began A Sketch of the Botany of South-Carolina and Georgia. He then published a number of papers, each on a separate plant genus. In some, he was critical of Elliott's work although sharing his notes on Utricularia with Elliott. After Elliott's death, Le Conte published only occasional papers on plants. Le Conte's primary interests were zoological, and he co-authored with Jean Baptiste Boisduval a book on insects, Histoire général et iconographie des lepidoptérès et des chenilles de l’Amerique septentrionale (that is, "General history and illustrations of the Lepidoptera and caterpillars of North{ern} America"), which was published at Paris. Many of the illustrations for this work were done by John Abbot. He also wrote on frogs, toads, small mammals, reptiles, and crustaceans. Le Conte's color drawings of North American tortoises led to him being called The Audubon of Turtles. He described and named twenty-two species and sub-species of terrapins and tortoises in the southeastern United States. John Eatton Le Conte was a fellow of the Linnean Society of London and served as vice-president of the Lyceum of Natural History of New York. When he moved to Philadelphia after 1841, he was elected vice-president of the Academy of Natural Sciences. In 1851, he was elected as a member of the American Philosophical Society. John Eatton Le Conte married Mary Ann Hampton Lawrence on July 22, 1821, in New York. Their son John Lawrence Le Conte, who became one of the USA's most important early entomologists, was born on May 13, 1825, in New York. Mary Le Conte died November 19, 1825, while traveling to Georgia from New York. John Eatton Le Conte died on November 21, 1860. References Sources Adicks, Richard, Ed. (1978) Le Conte's Report on East Florida. Orlando, Florida: The University Presses of Florida. Calhoun, J. (2004). Histoire Générale et Iconographie des Lépidoptères et des Chenilles de l’Amérique septentrionale by Boisduval and Le Conte (1829-[1837]): original drawings used for the engraved plates and the true identities of four figured taxa. Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society 58:143-168. Calhoun, J. (2005). A signature worth a thousand words [correct configuration of Le Conte's surname]. News of the Lepidopterists' Society 47:114. Calhoun, J. (2006). John Abbot's "lost" drawings for John Eatton Le Conte in the American Philosophical Society Library, Philadelphia. Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society