Lyell, Sir Charles
Sir Charles (1797-1875), a distinguished Scottish geologist. He was a native of Forfarshire. He was educated at Exeter College, Oxford, where he came under the influence of Dr. Buckland, the geologist. He studied for the bar, but was first heard of through a paper on the marls of his native county. In 1823, being a man of independent means, he went to Paris and made the acquaintance of Cuvier and Humboldt. He traveled extensively throughout western Europe, examining the geological formations. He visited North America four times, lecturing in Boston before the Lowell Institute and elsewhere. He wrote the Antiquity of Man to prove that the human race has existed on the earth for a long period of time. His reputation rests chiefly on The Principles of Geology, the nature of which is indicated by its subsidiary title, "An Attempt to Explain the Former Changes of the Earth's Surface by Reference to Causes Now in Operation." Lyell was one of the first and foremost men to teach that the present physical features of the earth are the results of causes now in existence, working through long periods of time. His theory is now generally accepted. It is opposed to the doctrine of sudden and violent changes. He resided chiefly in London, where he held various educational and honorary positions.
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Lyly
JOHN (lil'i), an English dramatist; born in 1554. He was graduated at Oxford in 1573; went to London, where he engaged in literary work and establish himself at court; was tried to a member of Parliament in 1589, 1593, 1597, and 1601. He is noteworthy prinof his two books account "Euphues, or the Anatomy of Wit" England" (1579), and "Euphues and his (1580), which were the first serious atwords as mere tempts in English to use musical notes, quite subordinating the matter to the sound. His influence is clear and strong on Sidney and Spenser. He died in London, in 1606.
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Lyme Regis
a seaport and watering-place of Dorsetshire, England, at the mouth of the Lyme rivulet, 5 miles S. E. of Axminster and 23 W. of Dorchester. The Cobb breakwater, dating from the by gov- 14th century, was reconstructed ernment in 1825-1826. Lyme Regis beat off Prince Maurice (1644), and was Monmouth's landing - place ( 1685). Natives Danville. It is an important manhave been Sir George Somers, Captain city; has several foundries, Coram, and Miss Mary Anning, the dismills, tobacco factories; manucoverer of the Ichthyosaurus and Plesiwhich osaurus in the Lias rocks here, are largely quarried.
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Lymph
a term in physiology. The chief difference between chyle and lymph is the more complete state of preparation for the operations of nutrition in lymph, owing to the smaller proportion of solid matter, and the almost total absence of fat; it is comparatively transparent, high in the scale of nutrition, bearing a strong resemblance to blood without the red corpuscles. In botanical physiology, the sap of a plant.
VACCINE. See VACCINATION.
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Lymphatic Glands
in anatomy, che absorbent system for the transmisbeing held. The practice of sion of the lymph, allied to the lacteal system, and appearing also first in then mammals. fishes, then reptiles, Their chief use is to effect a change in the materials absorbed, and render them more fitted for introduction into the blood. Lymphatics are found in most parts of the animal tissue, except the bones, brain and spinal cord, the eye, cartilages and tendons, the membranes of the ovum, the umbilical cord, and the placenta. ta. Lymphatic vessels, like arhave three coats, an teries and veins, veins, external, middle, and internal; they are also supplied with valves.
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Lymphatic System
. See Circulation
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Lynceus
Son of Aphareus, was one of the hunters of the Calydonian boar, and one of the Argonauts. He was so sharp-sighted that he could see through the earth and distinguish objects at a great distance from him. There was another person of the same name who married Hypermnestra , daughter of Danaüs.
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Lynch
CHARLES, a Virginia plan. er; born in 1736. He was a Revolutionary soldier, and after the war took up his residence in Pittsylvania co., Va. The region in which he lived became at one period of the Revolution infested by bands of Tories and outlaws; deserters from both armies added strength and semblance of organization to their operations. Wherever they appeared the terror-stricken inhabitants were plundered, harassed, and mercilessly subjected to every variety of insult and outrage. Col. Lynch, with a band of outlaws and followers, pursued these any of them fell into his hands they were not taken at once to a tree and hanged or tied to a stake and shot; a jury was selected from Lynch's men, over which he presided as judge; the captives were tried separately, the accused being allowed to make his own defense, and to show cause, if he could, why he should not be punished. If found guilty the punishment was inflicted on the spot. He died in 1796.
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Lynchburg
a city in Campbell co., Va., on the James river, and the Norfolk and Western, the Southern, and the Chesapeake and Ohio railroads; 66 miles N. of ufacturing rolling factories of farming implements and furniture; and has an abundant water power furnished by the James river. The chief industry of Lynchburg is the handling, shipping, and manufacture of tobacco. The city is the seat of Randolph-Mason Woman's College; Virginia institu- Christian College and several tions; has gas and electric light plants, waterworks, National banks, daily and weekly periodicals. Vast fields of coal, iron ore, and granite are in the neighbor hood. Pop. (1910) 29,494; (1920) 30,070
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Lynching
a term used in the United States, meaning the punishment offenders of death inflicted on supposed , without any trial of by a mob of people the accused ever resorted to in lynching was hardly the Un United States until after the Civil War, except in the extreme frontier sec tions. With the emancipation of the negroes and the "Reconstruction" period, the Ku-Klux-Klan began a systematic terrorizing of the negro population. It that became a written law in the South no negro accused of the rape of a white woman should be allowed the privilege of a trial. Soon lynchings spread to the and were no longer North and West, confined to negroes accused of rape. In the thirty years from 1885-1915 over 3,500 people, almost all negroes, were thus lawlessly put to death. In their lawless acts few members of the mob ever suffer, as the case against them must be tried in the district where the local officers are sympathetic with the lynching. Many lawyers are advocating making lynching an ofrs and public men fense against Federal law and thus make punishment for participation in it much more certain. yers a
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