AUGUSTUS LE PLONGEON, M. D. L. L. D.
This active traveller and ardent scholar never consented to write a word about his own life, but always maintained that a man's work was the only important thing for his fellows-beings. The present writer believes the following outline to be correct in every point. Augustus-Henry-Julius Le Plongeon was the oldest child of François-Guillaume Le Plongeon, of the Legion of Honour and a commodore of the French navy, by his wife Frances, daughter of Le Gros du Roche, who at the time of his
