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 Rh LODGE, Giles Henry, translator, b. in Boston, Mass., 13 March, 1805; d. there, 17 Dec., 1888. He was graduated at Harvard in 1835, and at the medical school in 1828, and passed his life chiefly in Boston. He was an enthusiastic student of the Greek language and art, and published translations of Johann Wincklemann's &ldquo;History of Ancient Art among the Greeks&rdquo; (4 vols., Boston, 1849-'73), and Baron von Steinberg's &ldquo;Breughel Brothers&rdquo; (1854). He was the author of several medical essays, and left in manuscript a &ldquo;Dictionary of Aristophanes.&rdquo; &mdash; His nephew, Henry Cabot, senator, b. in Boston, Mass., 12 May, 1850, was graduated at Harvard, and at the law-school, and in 1875 was given the degree of Ph. D. for his thesis on the &ldquo;Land Law of Anglo-Saxons&rdquo; (Boston, 1877). He was university lecturer on American history in 1876-'9, edited the &ldquo;North American Review&rdquo; in 1873-'6, and the &ldquo;International Review&rdquo; in 1879-'81. He was unsuccessful as a candidate for congress in 1884, but was elected in 1886, being re-elected in 1888, 1890, and 1892, and in 1893 became U. S. senator. In 1890 he was a delegate at large to the Republican national convention. Mr. Lodge has been an overseer of Harvard since 1884, and is a member of various scientific and historical societies. He was vice-president of the commission that superintended the celebration of the framing of the U. S. constitution, in 1887. He has published &ldquo;Life and Letters of George Cabot&rdquo; (Boston, 1877); &ldquo;Short History of English Colonies in America&rdquo; (New York, 1881); lives of Alexander Hamilton (Boston, 1882), Daniel Webster (1883), and George Washington (1888) in the &ldquo;American Statesmen&rdquo; series; &ldquo;Studies in History&rdquo; (1884); &ldquo;History of Boston&rdquo; (New York, 1891); &ldquo;Historical and Political Essays&rdquo; and a volume of speeches (Boston, 1892); in conjunction with Theodore Roosevelt, &ldquo;Hero Tales from

American History&rdquo; (New York, 1895); &ldquo;Certain Accepted Heroes and other Essays&rdquo; (1897); and &ldquo;The Story of the Revolution&rdquo; (1898). He has edited two series of &ldquo;Popular Tales&rdquo;; a volume of selected &ldquo;Ballads and Lyrics&rdquo; (Boston, 1881); and &ldquo;The Complete Works of Alexander Hamilton,&rdquo; including his private correspondence and many hitherto unpublished documents, with an introduction and notes (9 vols., New York, 1885). Senator Lodge's term of service will expire in March, 1899.

LOEFLING, Peter, Spanish-American botanist, b. in Tollsforsbro, Sweden, 31 Jan., 1729; d. in the mission of Amaracure, South America, 22 Feb., 1756. He was a pupil of Linnæus, and, when the Spanish ambassador requested the latter to select a botanist for service in the American colonies, the professor at once named Loefling, who left Stockholm in 1751. He remained two years in Spain, and then embarked with other scientists for South America in February, 1754. He had entire charge of the department of natural history, and was assisted by two young Spanish doctors. His premature death was considered a great loss to natural history, and especially to botany. Linnæus believed the loss irreparable. The manuscripts of Loefling, which were found after his death, were preserved by his two assistants. The work that gives an account of his scientific labors in Spanish America is entitled &ldquo;Iter hispanicum&rdquo; (Stockholm, 1758; Swedish translation by Linnæus; German translation by Kolpin, Berlin, 1766; English translation by J. G. A. Forster, 1771). Linnæus gave the name Loeflingia to a plant of the caryophillaceous family, one species of which grows in Spain and the other in Spanish America.

LOEWENTHAL, Isidor, missionary, b. in Posen, Prussian Poland, in 1826; d. in Peshawur, India, 27 April, 1864. He was educated in the Jewish faith, and, after completing his studies in the gymnasium of Posen, entered a mercantile establishment as a clerk. In consequence of a political poem that he published he was compelled to flee the country. He arrived in New York in the autumn of 1846, and attracted the attention of a clergyman in Wilmington, Del., through whose efforts he was appointed professor of German in Lafayette college. He quickly mastered the English language, entered the senior class in the following year, acting at the same time as tutor of French, German, and Hebrew, and was graduated in 1848. He then taught for four years at Mount