Scope and Contents Trained as a physician, LeConte made his name in the world thru his collecting and studying of Coleoptera. He has been referred to as the greatest Coleopterist of the country and one of the finest systematists. Not only did he make many collecting expeditions in this country but went to Central America, to Europe, Egypt and Algeria. He was enlisted in the army medical corps during the Civil War and later returned to Philadelphia as Assistant Inspector of the Mint in that city. His extensive...