LEAD, White, XIX. 86. LEAD-COLIC, disease, XVIII. 407. LEADENHALL MARKET, London, XIV. 829. LEADHILLITE, mineral, XVI. 399. LEAD, KINDLY LIGHT, Cardinal Newman's hymn, XII. 595. LEAD PALSY, disease, XVIII. 257. the Catholic, of France, IX. 562; | XVIII. 745; the Holy, against the Turks (1571), XIII. 717; XIX. 154; XXIII. 644; the Swabian, XXII. 789; XXIV. 702; Swiss leagues, XXII. 781, 783. LEAK, in a vessel, XXI. 601. LEBEDYAN, town, Russia, XIV. 396; | LEEAMBYE, river, Central Africa, XXIV. XXIII. 41. LEBEN JESU, Strauss's, XXII. 591. LEBERBERG, or Jura, mountain range, France, XIII. 782. LEBES, in ancient pottery, XIX. 614. LEBRETON, André François, printer of the French Encyclopédie, VIII. 197. LEBRIJA, or Lebrixa, town, Spain, XIV. 396; XXI. 708. LEBRON, French missionary in Paraguay, XVIII. 245. LE BRUN, Charles, French painter, Charles François, third Lake of, VI. 220. LEAKE, William Martin, English anti- LECHER, E., on radiation, XX. 217. quarian topographer, XIV. 379. LEAMINGTON, town, England, XIV. 380. LEANDER, of Greek legend, XI. 754. (J. H. van Ess), German theologian, VIII. 549. LEANE, Lough, Killarney, Ireland, XIV. 76. LECHLADE, town, England, XXIII. 220. LECITHIN, fatty substance in nerves, XIX. 24. LEAOU-TUNG, province, Manchuria, XV. LE CLERC, Jean, Swiss theologian and 466. LEAOU-YANG, town, Manchuria, XIV. 504; XV. 466. LEAPING, in ancient games, x. 64; in modern gymnastics, XI. 350. LEAP YEAR, of the calendar, Iv. 666. LEAR, Edward, illustrator of birds, XVIII. 12. LEASE, in law, XIV. 273; agricultural, I. 294, 407, 411. LEASEHOLD, in England, XIV. 264. LEASING-MAKING, in Scots law, XXIII. 529. writer, XIV. 397. LE CONTE, Joseph, on the stereoscope, XXII. 539. 765. LEECH, annelid, XIV. 400; II. 69; touch organs in, XXIII. 478. John, English caricaturist, XIV. 405; V. 105. LEECHDOMS, Anglo-Saxon, mediaval chronicle, XV. 806. LEEDS, town, England, XIV. 406; libraries of, XIV. 521, 543; news papers, XVII. 421; representation, XXIV. 748; Yorkshire College at, XXIII. 854. CASTLE, Kent, England, XIV. 40. LEEK, vegetable, XIV. 409; XII. 284. town, England, XIV. 409. LEELITE, mineral, XVI. 419. LEEM, Knud, Norse missionary and philologist, XVII. 590. LEER, town, Germany, XIV. 410. LEE'S OBSERVATORY, Hartwell, England, XVII. 711. LEEUWARDEN, town, Holland, XIV. 410. LEEUWENHOEK, Anthony van, Dutch microscopist, XIV. 410; his contributions to microscopical anatomy, XXIV. 815; on crystals, VI. 672; his use of the microscope, 1. 812; his discovery of Rotifera, XXI. 4. LEEWARD ISLANDS, West Indies, XXIV. 510; III. 749. LEEWAY, in navigation, XVII. 264. LECOUVREUR, Adrienne, French actress, LEFÈVRE, Anne (Madame Dacier), LEASOWE CASTLE, Cheshire, England, LECZINSKI, or Leszcynski, Stanislas, LEFORT, French astronomer, XIV. 776; LEGERDEMAIN, sleight of hand, XIV. 414; XV. 207. LEGHORN, town, Italy, XIV. 416; under the Medici, XV. 791; hat trade of, XXII. 593. LEGION, division of Roman army, II. 562; XX. 735. LEGIONARIES, Roman soldiers, XIX. 656. LEGION OF HONOUR, Order of the, XIV. 417; IX. 517, 615. LEGISLATION, XIV. 354, 359, 366; in relation to government, XI. 16; British parliamentary, XVIII. 311; Ronian, XX. 697; of United States, XXIII. 749. 159. Science of, Filangieri's work, IX. LEGITIM, in Scots law, XII. 402. LEGUME, or Pod, form of fruit, IV. 151. UNIVERSITY, U.S.A., XXIII. 857. LEIBZOLL, German tax on Jews, XIII. 682. LEICESTER, county, England, XIV. 423; population and representation, XXIII. 727; coalfield, VI. 50; sheep, I. 391. town, England, XIV. 424. Robert Dudley, earl of, XIV. 425; in Holland, XII. 77. Simon de Montfort, earl of, XVI. LEIDEN (Leyden, q.v.), town, Holland, LEIF, or Lief, early Greenland voyager, LEIGH, town, England, XIV. 426. Edward, Puritan Biblical critic, XIV. 426. LEINSTER, early Irish kingdom, XIII. | LEMPA, river, San Salvador, Central 245. province, Ireland, XIII. 215. LEITH, town, Scotland, XIV. 431; popu- HILL, Surrey, England, XXII. 693. LEMURALIA, in Roman festival, XIV. 313. LEMURES, in Roman legend, XIV. 313. LEMURINE NIGHT APE, II. 154. LE NAIN, Antoine, Louis, and Mathieu, LENCLOS, Ninon de, Frenchwoman of LENDERMENN, Norse rulers, XVII. 585, 589. LENFANT, Jacques, French ecclesiastical historian, XIV. 445. ards of, XXIV. 483. LEK, river, Holland, XII. 63; XX. 519. -, John (1691-1766), English theo- LELEGES, Greek race of people, XIV. 434; XVI. 53. LELEWEL, Joachim, Polish historian, LÉLIE, George Sand's novel, VII. 509. LE LOCLE, town, Neuchâtel, Switzer- LEMAN, Lake (Geneva, q.v.), Switzer- LEMANIC REPUBLIC, The, XXII. 793. mountain, Würtemberg, XXIV. 699. LEMMING, rodent mammal, XIV. 435; LEMNOS, island, Egean Sea, Turkey, LEIGHTON, Sir Frederick, as sculptor, LEMON PEEL, Candied, XIV. 438. XXI. 561. , Robert, bishop of Dunblane, XIV. 427. LEIGHTON-BUZZARD, town, England, LEMOSI, Provençal and Catalan lan- LENKORAN, town, Transcaucasia, Russia, LENNEP, town, Germany, XIV. 446. Jacob van, Dutch poet and novelist, XIV. 446; XII. 98. LENNGREN, Anna Maria, Swedish poetess, XXII. 756. LENNOACEÆ, parasitic plants, XVIII. LENNOX, Earls of, regents of Scotland, HILLS, Scotland, XXII. 553. LENNOXTOWN, town, Scotland, XXII. 554. LENNOXVILLE, Canada, University at, LENO, textile fabric, X. 118. LENOIR GAS-ENGINE, XXII. 523. LE NORMANT D'ÉTOILES, French fin- LENSES, in optics, XIV. 593; xvii. 802; LENT, church festival, XIV. 446; ob- LENTICELS, structures in plants, XII. 18. LENTISK, tree, XV. 621. LENTIUM (Linz), Roman station, Austria, LENZ, Heinrich F. E., his theory of 33 electric induction, VIII. II, 76; his | LEONISTS, Reformers of 12th century, | LEPOLITE, mineral, XVI. 420. magnetic experiments, XV. 253. XX. 321. LEONORA, regent of Portugal, XIX. 543. D'ESTE, friend of Tasso, XXIII. 76. III., pope, XIV. 449; XIX. 496; XX. | LEONORE, Bürger's poem, IV. 533; X. IV.-VII., popes, XIV. 449. VIII., pope, XIV. 449; xx. 789. IX., pope, XIV. 449; XIX. 498. X., pope, XIV. 450; XIII. 481; XV. 787; XX. 324; Michelangelo's works for, XVI. 233. XI., pope, XIV. 452; XIX. 505. XII., pope, XIV. 452; XIX. 508. I., the Great, emperor of the East, XIV. 452. II., emperor, XIV. 452. III., the Isaurian, emperor, xiv. 452; XI. 114; as iconoclast, XII. 712. V., the Armenian, emperor, XIV. DIACONUS, Byzantine historian, IV. 613. LEOBEN, Austria, Preliminaries of (1797), IX. 610; XVII. 198. LEOBSCHÜTZ, town, Prussia, XIV. 453. LEOCHARES, Greek sculptor, XIV. 453. LEOCORIUM, Sacred shrine, Athens, III. 2. LEODIUM (Liége), ancient town, Belgium, XIV. 568. LEOMINSTER, town, England, XIV. 454. LEON, Kingdom of, Spain, XXII. 311. province, Spain, XIV. 454; XXII. 298; dialect of, XXII. 351. town, Spain, XIV. 454. town, Mexico, XIV. 455. town, Nicaragua, XIV. 455; XVII. 477. Luis Ponce de, or Fray Luis de, Spanish poet and religious writer, XIV. 455; XXII. 357, 360. Moses de, writer of Book of Zohar, XIII. 814. LEONARDO of Pisa, Italian mathematician, XIX. 124; XVII. 626; introducer of algebra into Europe, I. 512. DA VINCI, Italian artist and man of science and letters, XIV. 455; XIII. 508; XXI. 437, 569. LEONHARDITE, mineral, XVI. 422. LEONIDAION, building at Olympia, Greece, XVII. 768. LEONIDAS, king of Sparta, XIV. 462. 462. of Alexandria, Greek poet, XIV. of Tarentum, Greek poet, XIV. 462. LEONIDES, Roman surgeon, XXII. 675. LEONIDS, November meteors, XVI. 110. 540. LEONTINI, town, Sicily, XIV. 463; XXII. 15, 17. LEONTIUS, emperor of the East, XIII. 798. LEONTODONIUM, principle in taraxacum, XXIII. 61. LEOPARD, carnivorous mammal, XIV. 463; XV. 435; of India, XII. 741; of Java, XIII. 603. Hunting, or Cheetah, V. 456. LEOPARDI, Alessandro, Italian sculptor, XXI. 568; XXIV. 176. Giacomo, Italian poet, XIV. 464; XIII. 515; his pessimism, XVIII. 689. LEOPOLD I., emperor, XIV. 466; X. 502. II., emperor, XIV. 467. 467. LEPONTII, Rhætian people, XX. 505. LEPORIDE, family of rodent mammals, LE PRESE, spa, North Italy, XXIV. 45. LEPROSY, disease, XIV. 468; XVIII, 406; XXII. 122. LEPTINES, Demosthenes's oration against, VII. 69; Wolf's commentary on it, XXIV. 630. LEPTIS (Lebda), ancient town, Tripolis, Africa, XIV. 470. LEPTOCARDII, subclass of fishes, XII. 695. LEPTOPTILUS, genus of birds, XIII. 529. LEPTOSOMUS, genus of birds, XX. 627. LEPTOTHRIX, genus of Schizomycetes, XXI. 399. LEPUS, genus of rodent mammals, XI. 476; XX. 192. LE PUY, town, France, XX. 118. I., duke of Anhalt-Dessau, XIV. | LÉRIDA, province, Spain, XIV. 470. III., duke of Austria, his war with Switzerland, XXII. 783, 784. town, Spain, XIV. 470; university of, XXIII. 839. LERINS, islands, France, IV. 807. LEOPOLDINE ACADEMY, Vienna, I. 77. LEOPOLDSTADT, part of Pesth, Hungary, XVIII. 691. suburb of Vienna, XXIV. 219. LEOPOLDVILLE, town, on Congo river, Africa, XXIV. 765. LEOPOLIS (Lemberg), ancient town, Austria, XIV. 435. LE PALAIS, town, France, XVI. 813. LEPANTO, town, Greece, XIV. 467; battle of (1571), V. 348; XI. 121; XIII. 717; XXIII. 644; XXIV. 145. Gulf of, Greece, XI. 82. LEPEL, town, Russia, XXIV. 262. LEPERS, Order for the Succour of, XIV. 374. LEPIDOLITE, mineral, XIV. 697; XVI. 413. LEPIDOMELANE, mineral, XVI. 413. LEPIDOPTERA, order of insects, IV. 592; XIII. 150; mimicry in, XVI. 343LEPIDOSIREN, genus of fishes, XIV. 468. LEPIDOSTOIDEI, suborder of fishes, XII. 687. LEPIDUS, M. Æmilius, Roman triumvir, XIV. 468; xx. 768. LE ROMAIN, Pierre Mignard, French painter, XVI. 289. LEROUX, Pierre, French philosopher and politician, XIV. 471. LE ROY, Julien David, on the monuments of Athens, II. 444. LE ROY'S ELECTRICAL MACHINE, VIII. IOI. LERWICK, town, Shetland, Scotland, XVII. 848. LE SAGE, Alain René, French novelist LES ANDELYS, town, France, II. 13. 132. LESBOS, island, Ægean Sea, Asia Minor, XIV. 474; coins of, XVII. 646. LESGHIANS, or Lesghis, Caucasian tribes, XIV. 474; V. 258. LESHKOFF, Russian historian, XXI. 108. LESLEY, or Leslie, Charles, Irish nonjuror, XIV. 476. John, bishop of Ross, Scottish historian and statesman, XIV. 475; XXI. 542. LESLIE, Alexander, earl of Leven, Scottish general, XIV. 485; XXI. 512. Charles, Irish non-juror, XIV. 476. Charles Robert, English painter, XIV. 476. David, Lord Newark, Scottish general, XVII. 371; XXI. 514. LETTS, tribes, Lithuania, XIV. 701, 724; | LEVENTINA, valley, Switzerland, XXII. LETTSOMITE, mineral, XVI. 402. of | LEUCATE, lagoon, France, xx. 128. LEUCHTENBERGITE, mineral, XVI. 414. LEUCIPPE AND CLEITOPHON, Greek romance, XX. 636. (1350), XVII. 280. L'ESPINASSE, Claire Françoise de, friend of D'Alembert, VI. 775; IX. 668. LES ROCHERS, Madame de Sévigné's country seat, France, XXI. 705; XXIV. 263. LES ROUSSES, fort, France, XIII. 782. LESSEPS, Ferdinand, promoter of Suez Canal, IV. 790. LESSING, Gotthold Ephraim, German philosopher, XIV. 478; X. 536; on the theory of art, I. 219; his influence on the German drama, VII. 441; his fables, VIII. 839; as satirist, XXI. 320. LESSON, René Primevère, on birds, XVIII. 13. LESSONIA, genus of Algæ, 1. 509. LEUCIPPUS, Greek philosopher, XIV. 484. LEUCISCUS, genus of fishes, XX. 582; XXI. 49; XXIV. 552. LEUCITE, mineral, X. 228; XVI. 412. LEUCKART, Karl G. F. Rudolf, on classification of parasites, XVIII. 261; on the tapeworm, XXIII. 50; his zoological classification, XXIV. 809. LEUCOCYTHÆMIA, disease, XVIII. 376. LEUCOCYTOSIS, disease, XVIII. 376. LEUCODERMA, skin disease, XXII. 122. LEUCONARIA, tribe of sponges, XXII. 422. L'ESTRANGE, Louis Henri, abbot of LEUCOPATHIA, or Albinism, skin affecLa Trappe, XXIII. 524. musical composer, XIV. 483. LESZCZYNSKI, or Leczynski, Stanislaw, king of Poland, IX. 585; XVII. 171; XIX. 297; XXII. 450. tion, I. 455. LEUCOPHANE, mineral, XVI. 418. LEUCOPYRITE, mineral, XVI. 390. LEUCOSTICTE, genus of birds, XIV. 675. LEUCTRA, Greece, Battle of (371), VIII. 456; XI. 103. LEUK, village, Switzerland, XIV. 484; mineral water of, XVI. 433, 435. LEUKÆMIA, disease, XVIII. 376. LEUKOPHIBIA (Whithorn), Roman station, Scotland, XVIII. 411; XXIV. 563. LEUPICHIS, ancestor of Paulus Diaconus, XVIII. 436. LE TAI-PIH, Chinese poet, v. 666. LE TELLIER, Michel, French minister under Louis XIV., IX. 574. LETHE, in Greek mythology, XIV. LEUPOLD, Jacob, inventor of non-con483. densing steam-engine, XXII. 476. LETHENDY CASE, in Church of Scotland, LEUTHAR, leader of the Alemanni, XVII. V. 377. 233. LETHINGTON, Lord, Scottish lawyer | LEUTHEN, Prussian Silesia, Battle of and poet, XV. 308. (1757), III. 128. LEUTHOLF, or Ludolf, Hiob, German Orientalist, XV. 59. LEUTSCHAU, town, Hungary, XIV. 485. LEUWARDEN, or Leeuwarden, town, Holland, XIV. 410. Anthony van, Dutch microscopist, XIV. 410. LETRONNE, Jean Antoine, French LEUWENHOEK, or Leeuwenhoek (q.v.), archæologist, XIV. 483. LETTER-COPYING PRESS, XXIV. 414. LETTERKENNY, town, Ireland, VII. 362. LETTERS, Conveyance of, XIX. 562; copyright in, vI. 360. OF JUNIUS, XIII. 775. ΤΟ HIS SON, Chesterfield's, v. 607. LETTISH LANGUAGE, Dictionaries of, VII. 188. 785; XXIII. 351. LÉVÊQUE, Charles, on the beautiful, I. 213, 220. LEVER, Charles, Irish novelist, XIV. 485. BALANCE, III. 262. ESCAPEMENT, of watch, XXIV. 396. LEVERRIER, Urbain Jean Joseph, French astronomer, XIV. 486; his share in the discovery of the planet Nepture, 11. 813; on the solar parallax, XVIII. 246. LEVI, of Scripture, son of Jacob, XIV. LEVIN, Rahel Antonie, wife of Varn- LEVITES, of Scripture, XIV. 487; XIII. 418; XIX. 728. LEVITICAL CITIES, of Israel, xiv. 489. LEVYNE, mineral, XVI. 422. Ocean, XIV. 489; XIII. 570. LEWES, town, England, XIV. 490; XXII. 725. George Henry, English writer, XIV. 491; on evolution, VIII. 765. LEWIN, Harriet, wife of George Grote, XI. 213, 216. LEWIS, kings of France. See Louis. -, or The Lews, part of island, Hebrides, Scotland, XIV. 492; XX. 854. Sir George Cornewall, English writer and statesman, XIV. 492. Matthew Gregory, English writer, XIV. 493. Meriwether, American explorer, XIV. 494. - William, English chess-player, v. 601. LEWISTON, town, Maine, U.S.A., XIV. 494. LEX, in Roman law, xx. 670. LEVADIAS, disease, in Cape Verd Islands, LEXELL'S COMET, II. 814. LE VAILLANT, François, on birds, XVIII. LEVANT, countries bordering on Eastern LETTRES DE CACHET, XIV. 484; LEVEES, of Mississippi river, XVI. 520. LETTRES DE LA MONTAGNE, by Mirabeau's, XVI. 493. Rousseau, XXI. 16. XVI. 782. LEVELLING, in surveying, XXII. 707; instrument for, XXII. 720. LEVELS, in mining, XVI. 448. LEXIAS, variety of Spanish raisins, XX. 258. LEXICON, LEXICOGRAPHY, VII. 180. TECHNICUM, Harris's, XI. 493. LEXINGTON, town, Kentucky, U.S.A., XIV. 494; battle of (1775), XXIII. 740. -, town, Missouri, U.S.A., XIV. 494. town, Virginia, U.S.A., XIV. 494. LEXIPHANES, Lucian's dialogue, XV. 43. LEXOVII, tribe, ancient Gaul, XIV. 693. LETTRES PERSANES, Montesquieu's, LEVEN, Earl of (Alexander Leslie), Scot- LEX REX, Rutherfurd's work, XXI. 112. 290, 294. time of Scaliger, XXI. 364; libraries, | LIBERUM VETO, Polish statute, XIX. LEYDEN, John, Scottish poet, XIV. 495. JAR, electrical apparatus, VIII. 5, 6, LEYTE, island, Philippines, XVIII. 752. tion, XXIII. 344. XVIII. 21. LHERZOLITE, mineral, XVI. 416. LHOBRA, district, Tibet, XXIII. 341. L'HÔPITAL, or L'Hospital, Michel de, chancellor of France, XIV. 503; IX. 560. LIBETHENITE, mineral, XVI. 405. LIBRARIES, XIV. 509 (with lists, 542); LIBYA, ancient territory, North Africa, LHOTA, Bohemia, Synod of (1467), XVI. LIBYAN DESERT, North Africa, XXI. 811. LHOYUL, district, Tibet, XXIII. 340. 299. LI, Chinese books of rites and cere- LIAKHOFF, Russian Arctic explorer, XIX. LIARD, Canadian tree, XIX. 512. LIBATIONS, Religious, XXI. 133. LIBER, Roman deity, XIV. 507. 150; XXIII. 575; oases of, XVII. 695. LICE, human parasites, XV. 24; XXII. 123. LICENSING ACT (1872), on adulterations, LICENSING LAWS, XIV. 688; XXIII. 159; LICHE (Latakia), town, Syria, XIV. 323. 592. Jonas, Norwegian novelist, XVII. LIEBENERITE, mineral, XVI. 425. LIEBERKÜHN, Glands or crypts of, in LIEPIG, Justus, German chemist, XIV. LIEBIGITE, mineral, XVI. 399. LIEF, or Leif, early Greenland voyager, LIÉGE, town, Belgium, XIV. 568; de- LIEGNITZ, town, Prussia, XIV. 569; skin disease, XXII. 122. LICHENINE, gelatin in lichens, XIV. 558. LICHFIELD, town, England, XIV. 563. Georg Christoph, German physicist LIBERAL PARTY, English political party, LICHTERFELDE, Prussia, Electric tram LIBERTAD, town, Nicaragua, Central LICZCOWICE, town, Russian Poland, xv. LIERRE, or Lier, town, Belgium, XIV. LIEUTAUD, Joseph, anatomist, I. 814. LIEVIN, town, France, XVIII. 340. |