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ALFRED, an English architect; born in Liverpool, England, July 19, 1830; studied architecture in Manchester, France, and Italy; gained the competition for the Manchester Assize Courts, and also designed the Owens College and the town hall in that city. Among his chief works in London are the Natural History Museum at South Kensington, the New University Club, the National Liberal Club, Club, the New St. Paul's Schools, the City and Guilds' institute, and University College Hospital. He also partly reconstructed Balliol College, Oxford, and Caius and Pembroke, Cambridge. He was elected a royal academician in 1885. He died in London, Aug. 22, 1905.
WATER LILY (Nymphæ), an exogenous aquatic tic plant of the order Nymphæacex, including eight genera, and all possessing submerged root stocks.
They are found in all temperate climates, and attain great size in the tropics. N. alba is the familiar flower of ponds and placid streams throughout Great Britain and North America, its large and chaste flowers claiming precedence for beauty among the indigenous flora.
N. lotus has similar flowers, but tinted with pink, and has strongly toothed WATERLOO WATER POWER floating leaves; it is the white lotus of or discharged through an orifice. There the Nile. The blue lotus (N. cærulea) has fragrant blue flowers. Several species and numerous varieties are in cultivation as ornamental plants, includthe yellow water lily. America. In India the seeds are used