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Leon Provancher

PROVANCHER, Leon, Canadian author, born in Becancour, Quebec, 10 March, 1820. He was graduated at the Nicolet seminary, ordained priest in 1844 in the Roman Catholic church, and held several pastorates. Owing to feeble health he withdrew from the ministry in 1869 and engaged in literary work and the study of natural history, and has described more than two hundred new species of insects, particularly the Hymenoptera. He founded "Le naturaliste Canadien" in 1868, and received the degree of D. Sc. in 1880. Dr. Provancher is the author of '" Traite elementaire de botanique "(Quebec, 1858) ; " Flore Canadienne " (1862) ; "Le vetger Canadien" (1865): " De Quebec a Jerusalem " (1882); " Petite histoire du Canada" (1887), and other works on botany and natural history. He now (1888) has in preparation "Les hemipteres."

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