1883; acting Registrar -General, 1884-1885; Registrar-General, 1887; and Member of Legislative Council 1889; Member of Executive Council, 1891; Chairman Board of Examiners in Chinese, 1891; ditto, Governing Body, Queen's College, 1894; acting Colonial Secretary, April, 1894; Colonial Secretary and Registrar-General, March, 1895; Special Commissioner to report on the extension of the Boundary of Hongkong, 1898; Representative of Great Britain to delimit Boundaries, for both of which received thanks of Secretary of State 1899; Commissioner of Wei-hai-wei, since 1902; carried on the negotiations relative to the recession of Wei-hai-wei with the Viceroy of Shantung, May, 19C6. Publications: Manual of Chinese Quotations; the Currency of the Farther East. Recreations: Rowing, golf, riding, numismatics, folk-lore, the language and literature of China; the history of British trade with the Far East, and of the British Colonies. Clubs: Royal Societies'; Hongkong; Ends of the Earth, New York. Address: Government House, Wei-hai-wei China.
LOENHOLM, Prof. L. H. (TOKYO), Professor at Imperial University; b. 1854. Joined Japanese Government Service many years ago; translated into English. Japanese Civil and Commercial Codes. Decorations: 3rd class of Sacred Treasure and Rising Sun, Japan; 3rd class of Crown, Germany; 3rd class of Iron Crown, Austria; Order de 1'Academie, and Order de I'lnstruction Publique, France; Address: 1, Minami-cho, Shichichome, Aoyama, Tokyo, Japan.
LOEW, Prof. Carl Benedict Oscar (TOKYO), D.Ph., Prof. Agricultural Chemistry; b. April 2, 1844, at Redwitz, Bavaria; m. Olga Tarobi d. of Capt. H. Tarobi. Educ.: Universities of Munich and Leipzig. Took part in four scientific expeditions to the S.W. States of the Union (reports of which were published by the U.S. War Dept. Washington), 1873-77, was later Docent at University of Munich; Professor at Tokyo University, 1893-97; Expert of Physiological Chemistry at U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, 1898-1900; Professor at Tokyo, 1901-6; discovered a simple method of manufacturing formalin on a big scale in 1883 and first observed its great antiseptic properties. Decorations: 4th class, Order of Sacred Treasure, Japan. Publications: "The Physiological Role of Minera1 Nutrients," 1899; "The Energy of Living Protoplasm," 1896; "Ein Naturliches System der Giftwirkungen," 1893; and numerous contributions to scientific journals. Address: College of Agriculture, Komaba, Tokyo, Japan.
LOMET, Henri (BAC-KAN), Resident; Administrator, 2nd class; b. Sept. 13, 1858. Entered Indo-China Civil Service, April 20, 1884; Administrator 4th class, Jan. 12, 1892; Administrator, 3rd class, May 31, 1899; Administrator, 2nd class, Jan. 1, 1903. Address: Bae-Kan,
