"Miss Lilly Leppan" of Tea Fountain (a farm some 25 km west-north-west of Grahamstown) presented a steady stream of various specimens to the Albany Museum, Grahamstown, during 1891. In 1900 Miss L. Leppan of Tea Fountain, presumably the same person, donated some arachnids, molluscs, and a reptile. Also, "Fraulein L. Leppan" at some time gave specimens of non-marine molluscs to a Dr Panther [not identified] and was commemorated in the name of the species Gulella leppani (since renamed). She was presumably Miss Lilian Lavinia (or Livina) Leppan, aged 18 in 1891, daughter of Charles James Leppan and his wife Margaret Webb. A younger sister of her father, Letitia H. ("Letty") Leppan* also presented some specimens to the Albany Museum.

List of sources:
Barnard, K.H. Personal names in South African conchology. Cape Town: Conchological Society of Southern Africa, 1965.

Cape of Good Hope. Report of the committee of the Albany Museum, 1891, 1900.

FamilySearch: Lilian Livina Leppan. https://www.familysearch.org/en/tree/person/details/GWSH-8RQ

Heese, J.A. South African genealogies, Vol. 5. Stellenbosch, 1999.

Compiled by: C. Plug

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