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in accordance with the principles of the Socit-ly of Friends of which her family on both sides had long been members. She was made a member of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia; the Philosophical society of Westchester, Pa.,

the New Centiuy club of Philadelphia: the Natural History so- cieties of Lancaster, Pa., and Rochester, N.Y., the Woman's Anthropological so- ciety of America; the National Science club for women; an hon- orary member of the Woman's club of Phil- adelphia, and of the Woman's club of ]\Ie- ^ - • ^ dia, Pa., and a life

'^^^st^2«t**,ii-'3£^e<.'zyi member of the Dela- ware County Institute of Science. She was also elected secretary of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union of Media, the Media Woman Sviflfrage association, and the Delaware County Forestry association; chief of the cultural department of the Media Flower mis- sion, and superintendent of scientific temperance instruction for the Delaware County W.C.T.U. She exhibited a model in wax to accompany her " Chart of the Animal Kingdom " at the Centen- nial Exposition in 187G and was commissioned to paint fifty repi-esentations of the leaves of forest trees for the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893. She published in 1869 a pamphlet intended to show The Position of Birds in the Animal Kingdom, and in 1877 Maria Mitchell, then of Vassar college, published, as president of the fourth Congress of Women held in Philadelphia, a second pamphlet on The Development of the Animal Kingdom, being a paper prepared by Miss Lewis for the congress. Her Chart of the Ani- mal Kingdom was prepared previous to 1876, that of the Vegetable Kingdom was completed in 1855, and both were soon supplemented by a Chart of Geology u'ith Special Reference to Pal- ceontology. In ad<'ition Miss Lewis devoted many years in part to ^licroscopic Studies, including Frost Crystals, Symmetric Forms, Loiver Life Forms, and the Plumage of Birds; and in the preparation of a large number of illustrations for lectures on natural history in its varied depart- ments. She also added to her other charts one On the Class of Birds, and another On the Race of Mankind. She illustrated her botanical studies b}' numerous water-color paintings of wild- flowers and branchlets of different species of trees, and in 1901 was publisliing a series of fif- teen Leaf Charts of the most important nut,

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timber and shade trees, whetlier native or foreign. Her charts were all improved from time to time with the progress of knowledge.

LEWIS, Henry Carvill, geologist, was born in Philadelphia, Pa., Nov. 16, 1853; son of Frederick Mortimer and Emma Hulme (Carvill) Lewis; grandson of John Frederick Lewis, and a descend- ant of John Andrew Philip Lewis (Ludwig). He was graduated from the University of Pennsjivania, A.B., 1873, A.M., 1876. He was a volunteer mem- ber of the geological survey of Pennsyl- vania, 1879-84; pro- fessor of mineralogy at the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, Pa., 18- 80-88; of geology at Haver ford college, 1883-88, and a stri- dent of geolog}^ and of microscopic i)e-

trology at the University of Heidelberg, Germany, 1886-87. He devoted himself to the investigation of the origin of the diamond, 1887-88, for wiiich purpose he again visited Europe. He was elected a member or fellow of several important scienti- fic societies of America and Europe. He was married in May, 1882, to Julia Catharine, daugh- ter of William Parker Foulke, of Philadelphia, Pa. He contributed twenty-nine communications to the mineralogical and geological section of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia (1877- 79), and papers to scientific journals in the United States and Europe. He completed a map of the separate ancient glaciers and ice-sheets of Eng- land, Wales and Ireland, edited the mineralogical department of the American Naturalist, and is the author of many scientific woi-ks, including: Tlie Antiquity of Man in Eastern America, Geo- logically Considered (1880); Notes on the Zodiacal Light (1880); The Antiquity and Origin of the Trenton Gravel (1881); The Great Ice Age in Pennsylvania (1883); The Geology of Philadelphia (1883); SujijMsed Glaciation in Pennsylvania, South of the Terminal Momine (1884); A Great Trap Dike Across Southeastern Pennsylvania (1885); Conq^arative Studies 112)071 the Glaciation of North America (ISSQ); Diamondsin Meteorites; Genesis of the Diamond (1886); The Terminal Moraines of the Great Glaciers of England (1887). He died in Manchester, England. July 21, 1888.

LEWIS, Henry Llewellyn Daingerfield, agri- culturist, was born at "Audley," Berryville, Clarke county, Va., April 25, 1843; son of Lo- renzo and Esther Maria (Coxe) Lewis, and grand-