Layard
SIR AUSTIN HENRY, English an archæologist; born in Paris, France, March 5, 1817. In 1839 and following years he traveled in the East, and in 1845 began his celebrated excavations on the site of ancient Nineveh, publish ing the results in 1849-1853. In 1852 he entered Parliament in the Liberal interest; became under-secretary for foreign affairs in 1860, commissioner of works in 1869, and ambassador to the Porte in 1877 under Lord Beaconsfield's government, when he accomplished the annexation of Cyprus. He is best known by his books : "Nineveh and its Remains" (1849), and "Discoveries in the Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon" (1853). He died in London, England, July 5, 1894.
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Lazare, Denys
A prince of Serbia who lived in the year of the Hegira, 788. He was author of a work entitled Dreams , published in 1686. He himself claimed to have had noc-- turnal visions. 66
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Lazaret
or LAZARETTO AZARETTO, a name given in Italy, and other parts of South- , a name ern er parts of South- Europe, to certain public buildings public buildings for the reception of the poor, and such as are afflicted cour, and such as with contagious disorders. The globe disorders. name is derived from St. Lazarus, who is the patron saint of lepers; and during at of lepers; and the Middle Ages, when leprosy was common Ages, when leprosy in Italy and other parts, the hospitals and other parts, the in which the lepers were ers were con fined received that name, and the lepers conthemselves and the lepers were called lazzari.
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Lazuli
a itramarine or of beautiful ultramarine mefly of zilles or color, consisting chiefly of silica sulphuric acid, alumina, with a little sulphuric acid, varies-much and lime. The color varies much Lapis lazull degree of intensity. Lapis lazuli is often marked by white associated among and 85 with Tan istose is The rocks and in granite, in Siberia, China, etc. The finest specimens China, hot Tibet, Chile, Bokhara. It seems to imens are brought from of any intrinsic ems to have been the only stone Egyptians under the rinsic value known to the valuable pigment, called er Pharaohs. The .) is made from it. ULTRAMARINE (q. v the minerals sometimes called It is one of azure stone.
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Le Brun
MARIE, a French painter; born in Paris, France, April 16, 1755. She was a daughter of one Vigée, a painter, and in 1776 married J. B. P. Le Brun, picture dealer. Her great beauty, as well as the charm of her painting, speedily made her the fashion in Paris and at Versailles. Her first portrait of Marie Antoinette (in 1779) led to lasting friendship. She subsequently painted numerous portraits of various members of the royal family, and in 1783 was admitted, after much opposition on account of her sex, a mem- . ber of the Royal Academy of Painting She left Paris for Italy at the outbreak of the Revolution in 1789, and after a species of triumphal progress through Europe, arrived in London in 1802. There she painted portraits of the Prince of Wales, Lord Byron, and other celebri ties. In 1805 she returned to Paris, where she lived till her death, March
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Le Cateau
formerly Cateau-Cambrésis: a town of France, in the Nord . department, 14 miles S. E. of Cambrai Has a town hall belonging to Renaissance period, and manufactures include mafigured chinery and textiles. The town prominently in the fighting of 1918, where Rawlinson's Third Army fought stubbornly. The town changed hands repeatedly. Pop. about 10,000.
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Le Catelet
a village in ships, and from Cambrai to St. line of geolog Quentin. It University part of the British and French Relations line that went through the villages peared in Namoy and Derain opposite of the "Elementε burg line in the World War. It fell Compend fore the Germans in the spring drive Its Kelatio 1918. died in the
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Le Conte
JOSEPH, an American ndidature scientist; born in Liberty co., Ga., buis Napol 26, 1823. He practiced medicine minisusiy several years at Macon, Ga., but in tempt to went to Cambridge, Mass., where ainst his studied natural history under Agassiz political He subsequently held several professor- France, ships, and after 1869 occupied the chair E. of Cambrai, on the 869 occupied the chair S. leading of geology and natural history in the ral history in the was University of California. "The Mutual fornia. "The Mutual support Relations of Religion and Science" apgion and Science" apof peared in 1874, and was followed by and was followed by lowed by Hinden- "Elements of Geology," "Light," "A Feology," y," "Light" "A be- Compend of Geology," "Evolution and ""Evolution and logy, of Its Relation to Religious Thought." He eligious Thought." He died in the Yosemite Valley, California, mite Valley, California, tributary July 6, 1901. Vo-
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Le Conte, Joseph
Joseph (1823-1901), an American geologist. He was born in Liberty County, Georgia. His father, Lewis Le Conte, was a physician and a naturalist, the owner of a private botanical garden of note. Joseph was graduated at Franklin College, Georgia, and the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York . He took up the practice of medicine at Macon, Georgia, but drifted into the companionship of Agassiz and accompanied that eminent naturalist to Florida in 1850. Le Conte held chairs of natural science and geology in Oglethorpe University, Franklin College, and the University of South Carolina . In 1869 he accepted the chair of geology in the University of California, a position which he honored. He died in the valley of the Yosemite. Le Conte was a product of the field, rather than of the laboratory. He wrote pleasingly. His Elements of Geology, published in 1878, went far to popularize geology in college classes. A smaller Compend of Geology performed a similar service in the high school and academy. Other writings were Evolution: Its Nature and Its Evidence, and Religion and Science. He was an editor of the Journal of Geology and of Science, to which he contributed valuable papers relating to mountain formations as manifested in the Sierra Nevadas.
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