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684 1866 appeared his translation and re-arrangement of Dr. Keller's "Lake Dwellings," a second edition of which appeared in 1878, in two volumes. He has also published "Roman Imperial Photographs," 1874; and "Roman Imperial Profiles; being a series of more than 160 Lithographic Profiles enlarged from Coins," 1874; a translation of Conrad Merk's "Excavations at the Kesslerloch, near Thayngen, Switzerland, a Cave of the Reindeer Period," 1876; and "The Note-Book of an Amateur Geologist," 1881. For twenty-eight years he has been in the commission of the peace for Monmouthshire, but he is now residing at Torquay, and he is one of the local secretaries of the Society of Antiquaries for Devonshire.

 LEE,, dramatist and journalist, son of Charles Lee, R.N., was born Feb. 10, 1828, and educated at King's College School, London. Devoted to literary pursuits from an early age, he became associated as contributor with various publications. He retired from the office of dramatic critic of the Morning Advertiser upon the production of his first play, "Ordeal by Touch," at the Queen's Theatre, in May, 1872. He has also written "Chivalry," brought out at the Globe, Sept. 18, 1873.

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 LEES,, F.L.S., F.G.S., born at Worcester, May 12, 1800, was educated there, and afterwards at a private school in Birmingham, the Principal of which had at that time as Ushers his two sons, one of whom (Mr. M. D. Hill) was afterwards called to the bar, and became Recorder of Birmingham, and the other was eventually Sir Rowland Hill, celebrated for his successful efforts in postal reform. Having been brought up to commercial pursuits, he abandoned them for the more congenial studies of botany and natural history. The natural history of Worcestershire in particular has been his study, and he assisted the late Sir Charles Hastings in establishing the Worcestershire Natural History Society, of which he was the first Hon. Curator; and became the first president of the Worcestershire and vice-president of the Malvern Naturalists' Club. He is well known as a lecturer and writer on botany, and has written "The Botanical Looker-out in England and Wales;" "The Affinities of Plante and Animals, their Analogies and Associations;" "Pictures of Nature around the Malvern Hills and Vale of Severn;" "The Botany of the Malvern Hills," which has passed through three editions; also some poetical pieces, and numerous papers in magazines devoted to botany and natural history, besides various articles in the "Transactions" of the Woolhope (Herefordshire) and Malvern Field Clubs, and in the Worcester Journal. He published "The Botany of Worcestershire," in 1868. A series of articles from his pen on remarkable and curious old trees, relics of the English forests, appeared in the Gardeners' Chronicle, In 1869 the members of the Worcestershire and Malvern Naturaliste' Clubs presented Mr. Lees with his portrait and a breakfast service of plate in acknowledgment of his services extending over more than a quarter of a century. In 1877 he produced "The Forest and Chace of Malvern, its Ancient and Present State; with notices of the most remarkable Old Trees within its confines." His latest production is a volume entitled "Scenery and Thought, in Poetical Pictures of various Landscape Scenes and Incidents," 1880.

 LEFEVRE,, M.P., son of Sir John George Shaw-Lefevre, K.C.B., by Rachel Emily, daughter of Mr. Ichabod Wright, of Mapperley Hall, Nottingham, was born in 1882, and received his education at