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Peter Chalmers Mitchell, M.A., F.R.S., D.Sc., LL.D.
- Secretary to the Zoological Society of London. University Demonstrator in Comparative Anatomy and Assistant to Linacre Professor at Oxford, 1888-1891. Lecturer on Biology at Charing Cross Hospital, 1892-1894; at London Hospital, 1894. Examiner in Biology to the Royal College of Physicians, 1892-1896, 1901-1903. Examiner in Zoology to the University of London, 1903.
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Life; Longevity. |
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Laud, Archbishop; Lauderdale, Duke of; Leeds, 1st Duke of. |
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Leochares. |
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Peter Giles, M.A., LL.D., Litt.D.
- Fellow and Classical Lecturer of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and University Reader in Comparative Philology. Late Secretary of the Cambridge Philological Society. Author of Manual of Comparative Philology; &c.
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L. |
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Line Engraving (in part). |
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Lachish. |
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Leopardi. |
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Leaf-insect; Locust (in part). |
| R. J. M. |
Ronald John McNeill, M.A.
- Christ Church, Oxford. Barrister-at-Law. Formerly Editor of the St James's Gazette, London.
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Lawn Tennis; Leicester, R. Sidney, earl of; Lockhart, George. |
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Sir Robert Kennaway Douglas.
- Formerly Professor of Chinese, King's College, London. Keeper of Oriental Printed Books and MSS. at British Museum, 1892-1907. Member of the Chinese Consular Service, 1858-1865. Author of The Language and Literature of China; Europe and the Far East; &c.
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Li Hung Chang. |
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Richard Lydekker, F.R.S., F.G.S., F.Z.S.
- Member of the Staff of the Geological Survey of India, 1874-1882. Author of Catalogue of Fossil Mammals, Reptiles and Birds in the British Museum; The Deer of all Lands; The Game Animals of Africa; &c.
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Langur; Lemming (in part); Lemur; Leopard (in part); Lion (in part); Litopterna. |
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Locust (in part). |
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Life-boat: British (in part). |
| R. N. B. |
Robert Nisbet Bain (d. 1909).
- Assistant Librarian, British Museum, 1883-1909. Author of Scandinavia: the Political History of Denmark, Norway and Sweden, 1513-1900; The First Romanovs, 1613-1725; Slavonic Europe: the Political History of Poland and Russia from 1469 to 1796; &c.
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Ladislaus I. and IV. of Hungary; Laski. |
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Robert Seymour Conway, M.A., D.Litt. (Cantab.).
- Professor of Latin and Indo-European Philology in the University of Manchester. Formerly Professor of Latin in University College, Cardiff; and Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. Author of The Italic Dialects.
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Latin Language (in part); Liguria: Archaeology and Philology. |
| R. We. |
Richard Webster, A.M.
- Formerly Fellow in Classics, Princeton University. Editor of The Elegies of Maximianus; &c.
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Long Island. |
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Lombards: The Kingdom in Italy. |
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Stanley Arthur Cook, M.A.
- Lecturer in Hebrew and Syriac, and formerly Fellow, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. Editor for Palestine Exploration Fund. Examiner in Hebrew and Aramaic, London University, 1904-1908. Author of Glossary of Aramaic Inscriptions; The Laws of Moses and the Code of Hammurabi; Critical Notes on Old Testament History; Religion of Ancient Palestine; &c.
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Levites. |
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Leonardo da Vinci. |
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Liguori. |
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Rev. Stewart Dingwall Fordyce Salmond, M.A., D.D. (1838-1905).
- Professor of Systematic Theology and Exegesis of the Epistles, U.F.C. College Aberdeen, 1876-1905. Author of The Parables of our Lord; &c. Editor of The International Library of Theology; &c.
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Logos (in part). |
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Latitude; Light: Velocity. |