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50 circular to American fishermen in regard to the restrictions that were imposed upon foreign fishing- vessels by Canadian laws. Admiral Luce was a founder of the U. S. naval war college, and was instrumental in the establishment of the JJ. S. naval training system. He is now (1887) at the head of the list of rear-admirals on the active list. He has published " Seamanship " (New York, 1863), and edited "Naval Songs" (1883).

LUCIO, Rafael (loo'-the-o), Mexican physician, b. in Jalapa, 2 Sept., 1819 ; d. in the city of Mexico, 30 May, 1886. He received his primary education in his native city, and continued his studies at San Luis Potosi, but before they were completed his father died, and his mother became the wife of Dr. Manuel Salas, under whom Lucio began the study of medicine. He removed to the city of Mexico in 1839, was graduated at the School of medical sci- ence in 1842, and in 1855 and 1868 visited Europe. In 1843 the government appointed him director of the Hospital de San Lazaro, where he remained eighteen years, making a study of leprosy, and pub- lished, with Dr. Ignacio Alvarado, " La Blefan- eiasis de los Griegos, 6 el Mai de San Lazaro " (Mexico, 1851). In 1845 he entered the School of medicine as assistant professor, and in 1847 he was appointed professor of medical jurisprudence and the practice of surgery. In 1851 he obtained the chair of practice of medicine, which he filled till a short time before his death. He was also appointed director of the school, but declined. In 1864 Dr. Lucio revived the Aeademia de medicina, and in 1869. 1880, and 1881 he was its president.

LUCKENBACH, Abraham, missionary, b. in Lehigh county, Pa., 5 May, 1777; d. in Bethlehem, Pa., 8 March, 1854. He was educated at Nazareth Hall, Pa., taught there in 1797, and in 1800 became a missionary of the Moravian church among the Delaware Indians, laboring till 1843, when he re- tired to Bethlehem. He edited the second edition of David Zeisberger's " Delaware Hymn-Book " (1847), and published in the Delaware language " Select Narratives from the Old Testament."

LUCKEY, Samuel, clergyman, b. in Rensselaerville, Albany co., N. Y., 4 April, 1791 ; d. in Eochester, N. Y., 11 Oct., 1869. He entered the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal church in 1811 at Ottawa, Canada, and was pastor of churches in western New York from 1812 till 1821. He was principal of the Genesee Wesleyan seminary in 1822-'6, and for the next ten years officiated successively in churches in New Haven, Conn., and Brooklyn and Albany, N. Y., and as presiding elder of the New Haven district. He became editor of the " Christian Advocate and Journal " in 1836, was also senior editor of the Methodist publishing society, and, returning to the ministry after four years, was from 1842 till his death a presiding elder in the Rochester, N. Y., circuit, and for nine years chaplain of the Monroe county penitentiary. Union gave him the degrees of M.*A. and D. D. in 1821, and in 1847 he was appointed a regent of the University of New York. He published a " Trea- tise on the Sacrament " (New York, 1859).

LUDDEN, Patrick Anthony, R. C. bishop, b. near Castlebar, County Mayo, Ireland, in 1838. After studying for some time in St. Jarlath's col- lege, Tuam, he came to the United States at the age of eighteen, afterward entered the Grand Semi- naire, Montreal, Canada, and was ordained priest by Bishop Bourget in 1864. His first mission was as assistant at the Immaculate Conception cathedral, Albany, and he was then Bishop McCloskey's sec- retary and chancellor, and afterward pastor of Malone, Franklin co., N. Y. In 1877 he was ap- pointed rector of the Albany cathedral and vicar- general of the diocese, and in May. 1880, he be- came pastor of St. Peter's church, Troy. He was particularly interested in education, and built large schools in his parish. He was consecrated first bishop of Syracuse, 1 May. 1887, in the city of Syracuse, where he held his first diocesan synod on 4 Oct. following. Bisho[) Ludden was present at the oecumenical council at Rome in 1869, and was theologian to the bishop of Albany at the last plenary council of Baltimore. He is an eloquent preacher, very austere in his habits, but popular among his clergy. He has published a work on " Church Property " (Albany, 1882).

LUDEWIG, Hermann Ernst, author, b. in Dresden, Saxony, 14 Oct., 1809; d. in Brooklyn, N. Y., 12 Dec., 1856. He was educated at the universities of Leipsic and Göttingen, studied law, and engaged in its practice, and during his leisure devoted much time to bibliographical studies and to books of travels. He removed to the United States in 1844, and, after spending nearly two years in travel, became naturalized and settled in New York city in the practice of his profession. Previous to his removal to the United States he had published two valuable catalogues of European libraries, &ldquo;Le Livret des Ana&rdquo; (Dresden, 1837) and &ldquo;Zur Bibliothekekonomie&rdquo; (1840), and in 1846 he contributed to the Leipsic &ldquo;Serapeum&rdquo; articles on American libraries and bibliography that were considered as pioneer sketches on these topics. In 1854 he communicated to the Société de géographie of Paris an article entitled &ldquo;De l'histoire des aborigenes du Mexique,&rdquo; which was printed in the 9th volume of its bulletins. His other works include &ldquo;Literature of American Local History&rdquo; (printed privately. New York, 1846); &ldquo;Supplement relating to Local History of New York&rdquo; (1848); and &ldquo;Literature of American Aboriginal Linguistics,&rdquo; edited by Nicolaus Trübner, with additions by William W. Turner (London, 1858), which is the first volume of Trübner's &ldquo;Bibliotheca-Glottica.&rdquo;

LUDLOW, Fitz Hugh, author, b. in New York city, 11 Sept., 1836 ; d. in Geneva, Switzerland, 12 Sept., 1870. His father, Rev. Henry G. Ludlow, was a minister of the Presbyterian church for forty - five years. The son was grad- uated at Union in 1856. His literary life began the same year, when he pub- lished the " Apoca- lypse of Hasheesh^' in " Putnam's Monthly." This was soon followed by the " Hasheesh Eater " (New York, 1857). From that time until 1861 his publications were chiefly stories con- tributed to maga- zines. While in college he wrote some of the best American student songs. He was an editor of "Vanity Fair" in 1858-'60, at the same time studied law under William Curtis No^ves, and supported himself by writing. He was admitted to the bar in 1859, but abandoned it for a purely literary career, was connected in 1860-61 with the "New York World" and the "Commercial Advertiser," and for the lat-