Life
Lea was a partner of a large publishing house in Philadelphia. He devoted his leisure time to the collection and study of objects of natural history. He was especially interested in freshwater and land mollusks, and for 50 years he made contributions to the transactions of the scientific societies of Philadelphia concerning these animals.
His immense collection of freshwater mussels from the family Unionidae, and his other collections, are deposited in the National Museum at Washington.
He was President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1860.
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