never to have been reached by the currents of modern thought which have overflowed the old foundations for so many.

It is a pleasure to add that his noble library, largely composed of presentation copies of the most valuable paleontological works of the last half century, will be maintained intact. It has been purchased with this intent through the enlightened public spirit of P. W. Huntington, Esq., of Columbus, and will be placed where it can be fully available for the purposes of science.

Dr. Lesquereux was personally known to but few residents of the city in which the last forty years of his life were spent, but he was respected and honored by a much wider number, and there were many that felt, when he was borne out of his humble cottage to his last resting place, that an illustrious citizen had passed from among us.

The facts for this sketch have been derived from conversations with Dr. Lesquereux, from his son, Leo Lesquereux, Jr., from an excellent sketch in the Mute's Chronicle, January, 15, 1887, and from a valuable article prepared by Miss Lida R. McCabe for the Popular Science Monthly, April, 1887.

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LIST OF SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS of Dr. LEO LESQUEREUX.

Catalogue of Mosses of Switzerland. Natural History Society, Neuchatel, 1840.

Explorations of Peat Bogs, Prize Essay, Neuchatel.

Directions for Explorations of Peat Bogs, 1844.

Botany of the Lake Superior Expedition, 1848.

New Species of Fossil plants, Journ. Nat. Hist., Boston, 1854.
Paleontological Report, 1st Penna. Survey, 1857.

Paleontological Report, Kentucky Geol. Rep't, Vol. III, 1857.
Paleontological Report, Kentucky Geol. Rep't, Vol. IV, 1861.
Catalogue of Fossil Plants of Coal Measures of Penna., 1858.
Paleontological and Botanical Report, Arkansas Geol. Report, 1860.
Paleontological and Geological Report of Indiana, 1862.
Paleontological Report of Illinois, Geol. of Illinois, Vol. II, 1866.
Paleontological Report of Illinois, Geol. of Illinois, Vol. IV, 1870.
Catalogue of California Mosses, American Philos. Soc., Vol. XIII, 1864.
Tertiary Fossil Plants of Mississippi, Am. Philos. Soc. Vol. XIII, 1864.

Titles not all given in full, and not verified in all cases, but will serve as a clue.

On Fucoids in Coal.

Am. Philos. Soc. Vol. XIII, 1864.
Pacific Coast Mosses in California, Acad. of Science, 1868.
Musci Exsiccati, 1st Edition (with W. S. Sullivant), 1856.
Musci Exsiccati, 2d Edition (with W. S. Sullivant), 1865.

U. S. Geol. and Geogr. Survey of Terr. Rep'ts of Hayden, 4370-1-3.
Cretaceous Flora of Dakota Group. (same as above), 1874.
Review of Fossil Flora of North America, Penn. Monthly, 1875.
Coal and Coal Flora. Encyclopedia of North America.

Latin Text of Supplement to Sullivant's Icones Muscorum, 1874.
New species of Teritary Fossil Plants, U. S. Geol. and Geog. Survey,
Hayden's Bulletin 52, 1875.

New Species of Cretaceous Fossil Plants, U. S. Geol. and Geog. Sur., Hayden's Bulletin 52, 1875.

Cretaceous and Tertiary Floras of Western Territories, Hayden, 1874.
Fossil Marine Plants found in Carboniferous Measures.

of Indiana, 7th Ann. Rep't, 1876.

Plants of the Silurian. Philos. Soc. of Phila., 1877.

Geol. Sur.

Contributions to Fossil Flora of Western Territories. U. S. Geol. and Geog. Survey. Tertiary Flora, 1877.

Pliocene Flora of Auriferous Gravels, Mus. Comp. Zool., Cambridge, 1878.

Catalogue of Fossil Plants of Tertiary and Cretaceous, Hayden, 1878.
On Cordaites. Amer. Philos. Soc., 1878.

On a Branch of Cordaites Bearing fruit, Amer. Phil. Soc., 1879.
Coal Flora, Atlas and Text. 3 Vol. 2d Penna. Survey, 1879-1884.
Manual of American Mosses (with Thomas P. James), 1884.

Cretaceous and Tertiary Flora of the United States, Geol. and Geog.

Survey of Territ. Vol. VIII, 1883.

Principles of Paleozoic Botany, Geol. Report Indiana, 1884.
Vegetable Origin of Coal, 2d Geol. Sur. of Penna., 1885.

Papers in American Journal of Science:

Divers Questions Concerning Coal, 1860.

Fossil Fruits of Branden Lignites, 1861..

Some Fossil Plants of Recent Formations, 1859.

Some Fossil Plants of John Evans, 1859.
Origin and Formation of Prairies, 1865.

Formation of Lignite Beds, 1874.

Land Plants in the Lower Silurian, 1874.

[NOTE: Several of Dr. Lesquereux's works await publication. ED.]

FRANCIS CHARLES SESSIONS.*

BY WASHINGTON GLADDEN, D. D., LL. D.

Blessed are they that dwell in thy house;

They will be still praising thee.

Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee;

In whose heart are the highways to Zion.

Passing through the Valley of Weeping they make
it a place of springs;

Yea the early rain covereth it with blessings;
They go from strength to strength;

Every one of them appeareth before God in Zion.

- Ps. lxxxiv, 4-7.

Such men are not rare;

This poet has found a happy man. even in these unquiet times it is not needful to search for them by day with lanterns. Yet it may well be questioned whether in the days when cares were fewer and life was simpler, there were not more who took time to be happy-more who found out, before it was too late, that it was worth while to be happy.

This poet's happy man was one who spent his life in the Lord's house. Possibly the poet was some dweller on the slopes of distant Hermon, or among the vales of rugged Gilead, who only two or three times a year was permitted to stand in the portals of the Lord's house. From the time of the establishment of the one central sanctuary at Jerusalem, the hearts of the people turned with increasing attachment to its stately courts

* Mr. Sessions was elected First Vice President of Ohio Archæological and Historical Society at its annual meeting February 18, 1886. At its annual meeting February 24, 1887, he was chosen President, succeeding the Hon. Allen G. Thurman, the society's distinguished first president. Mr. Sessions held the office of president continuously till his death March 25, 1892. He discharged the duties of his position with great zeal and ability. He was ever ready, by his counsel, his means and his influence, to advance the interests of the society and to his generous and enthusiastic efforts are largely due the growth and prosperity of the organization. The memorial address herewith published was delivered by Dr. Gladden in the First Congregational Church of which Mr. Sessions was a most active member. E. O. R.