Autobiography - Publications Societies of Which He Was Member

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In 1852 Dr. Asa Gray of Cambridge, in a memoir published in the Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge entitled 'Plantae Wrightiana' (page 99, plate 9), named a new genus of plants Laphamia, with the remark - 'I dedicate this genus to I.A. Lapham Esq. of Milwaukee Wisconsin, author of a Catalogue of the Plants of that State, and a Zealous explorer of its botany.'

In the examination of the several masses of meteoric iron discovered in 1868 not far from Milwaukee in Wisconsin I detected some peculiar markings within the Widmannstattian figures, which Dr J. Lawrence Smith of Louisville Ky thought worthy of being named 'Laphramite Markings' - Am. Jour. of Sciences for March 1869.