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CHARLES FLETCHER, an American author; born in Lynn, Mass., March 1, 1859. He was a resident of Los Angeles, Cal. He was devoted to the archæology and history of the aboriginal tribes of the Southwest.

Among his works are: "The Land of LUNATIC ASYLUM. See INSANITY.

LUND (lönd), a city of Gothland, in the extreme S. of Sweden, 374 miles S.

W. of Stockholm and 10 N. E. of Malmö.

The principal building is the fine Romanesque cathedral, dating from the 11th century, with an imposing crypt.

Lund owes its revival to the founding of a university in 1668 by Charles XI. It was attended in 1911 by 1,405 students, and has a library of 120,000 volumes and 3,000 MSS., an excellent zoölogical museum, and a botanic garden. Tegnér was a professor from 1813 to 1826, and here he composed his masterpiece "Frithjof."

In the 10th century Lund was a large and powerful city, was made a bishopric in 1048, and an archbishopric in 1104.

Poco Tiempo"; "The Spanish Pioneers"; The archbishop claimed ecclesiastical "The Man Who Married the Moon"; supremacy over the whole of Scandi- "The Gold Fish of the Gran Chimú"; navia. At the same period Lund was "A New Mexico David, and Other the chief seat of the Danish power in Stories"; "The King of the Broncos" the Scandinavian peninsula, and for a (1897); "The Enchanted Burro" (1897); long period the capital of the Danish "The Awakening of a Nation" (1898); "My Friend Will" (1911).

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