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INITIALS AND HEADINGS OF ARTICLES


E. V. L. Edward Verrall Lucas.
Editor of Works of Charles Lamb. Author of Life of Charles Lamb.
Lamb, Charles.
F. E. B. Frank Evers Beddard, M.A., F.R.S.
Prosector of Zoological Society, London. Formerly Lecturer in Biology at Guy’s Hospital, London. Naturalist to "Challenger" Expedition Commission, 1882–1884. Author of Monograph of the Oligochaeta; Animal Colouration; &c.
Leech.
F. E. W. Rev. Frederick Edward Warren, M.A., B.D., F.S.A.
Rector of Bardwell, Bury St Edmunds. Fellow of St John’s College, Oxford, 1865–1882. Author of The Old Catholic Ritual done into English and compared with the Corresponding Offices in the Roman and Old German Manuals; The Liturgy and Ritual of the Celtic Church; &c.
Lection, Lectionary;
Lector
; Litany; Liturgy.
F. G. M. B. Frederick George Meeson Beck, M.A.
Fellow and Lecturer in Classics, Clare College, Cambridge.
Lombards (in part).
F. G. P. Frederick Gymer Parsons, F.R.C.S., F.Z.S., F.R.Anthrop.Inst.
Vice-President, Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland. Lecturer on Anatomy at St Thomas’s Hospital and the London School of Medicine for Women. Formerly Hunterian Professor at the Royal College of Surgeons.
Liver: Anatomy.
F. J. H. Francis John Haverfield, M.A., LL.D., F.S.A.
Camden Professor of Ancient History in the University of Oxford. Fellow of Brasenose College. Ford’s Lecturer, 1906–1907. Fellow of the British Academy. Author of Monographs on Roman History, especially Roman Britain; &c.
Legion (in part); Limes Germanicus.
F. L.* Sir Franklin Lushington, M.A.
Formerly Chief Police Magistrate for London. Author of Wagers of Battle.
Lear, Edward.
F. V. B. F. Vincent Brooks.
 
Lithography.
F. v. H. Baron Friedrich von Hügel.
Member of Cambridge Philological Society; Member of Hellenic Society. Author of The Mystical Element of Religion.
Loisy.
F. Wa. Francis Watt, M.A.
Barrister-at-Law, Middle Temple. Author of Law’s Lumber Room; Scotland of to-day; &c.
Law, John.
F. W. R.* Frederick William Rudler, I.S.O., F.G.S.
Curator and Librarian of the Museum of Practical Geology, London, 1879–1902. President of the Geologists' Association, 1887–1889.
Labradorite;
Lapis Lazuli
.
F. W. Ra. Francis William Raikes, K.C., LL.D. (1842–1906).
Judge of County Courts, Hull, 1898–1906. Joint-author of The New Practice; &c.
Lien.
G. A. Gr. George Abraham Grierson, C.I.E., Ph.D., D.Litt. (Dubl.).
Member of the Indian Civil Service, 1873–1903. In charge of Linguistic Survey of India, 1898–1902. Gold Medallist, Royal Asiatic Society, 1909. Vice-President of the Royal Asiatic Society. Formerly Fellow of Calcutta University. Author of The Languages of India; &c.
Lahnda.
G. E. Rev. George Edmundson, M.A., F.R.Hist.S.
Formerly Fellow and Tutor of Brasenose College, Oxford. Ford’s Lecturer, 1909–1910. Employed by British Government in preparation of the British Case in the British Guiana-Venezuelan and British Guiana-Brazilian boundary arbitrations.
Limburg.
G. F. B. George Frederick Barwick.
Assistant-Keeper of Printed Books and Superintendent of Reading-room, British Museum.
Lavigerie.
G. F. K. George Frederick Kunz, A.M., Ph.D., D.Sc.
Gem Expert to Messrs Tiffany & Co., New York. Hon. Curator of Precious Stones, American Museum of Natural History, New York. Fellow of Geological Society of America. Author of Precious Stones of North America; &c. Senior Editor of Book of the Pearl.
Lapidary and Gem-cutting.
G. H. C. George Herbert Carpenter, B.Sc.
Professor of Zoology in the Royal College of Science, Dublin. Author of Insects: Their Structure and Life.
Lepidoptera.
G. Sa. George Saintsbury, D.C.L., LL.D.
See the biographical article: Saintsbury, George E. B.
La Bruyère; La Fontaine; Lamartine;
La Rochefoucauld
; Le Sage.
G. S. L. George Somes Layard.
Trinity College, Cambridge. Barrister-at-Law, Inner Temple. Author of Charles Keene; Shirley Brooks; &c.
Linton, William James.
G. W. T. Rev. Griffithes Wheeler Thatcher, M.A., B.D.
Warden of Camden College, Sydney, N.S.W. Formerly Tutor in Hebrew and Old Testament History at Mansfield College, Oxford.
Labīd.
H. A. L. Hendrik Antoon Lorentz.
Professor of Physics in the University of Leiden. Author of La théorie electromagnétique de Maxwell et son application aux corps mouvants.
Light: Nature of.
H. B. W.* Henry Benjamin Wheatley, F.S.A.
Assistant Secretary, Royal Society of Arts, 1879–1909. President of the Samuel Pepys Club, 1903–1910. Vice-President of the Bibliographical Society, 1908–1910. Author of The Story of London; London Past and Present; &c.
London: History.
H. B. Wo. Horace Bolingbroke Woodward, F.R.S., F.G.S.
Formerly Assistant Director of the Geological Survey of England and Wales. President Geologists' Association, 1893–1894. Wollaston Medallist, 1908.
Logan, Sir William E.;
Lonsdale, William
.