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OBITUARIES, FOREIGN. 



architect, born March 11, 1801 ; died June 27, 

 1875. He was an artist of considerable repu- 

 tation. Among his works are the Library 

 Saint-Genevieve, and the Imperial Library. 

 He was made Grand Officer of the Legion of 

 Honor in 1852, and was elected a member of 

 the Academy of Fine Arts in 1867. 



LAFITTE, CHARLES, a French banker, born 

 in 1802; died December 27, 1875. He was 

 the son of the celebrated financier of the same 

 name. 



LAIXE, PIEERE JEAN HONGRAT, Vicomte, a 

 French naval officer, born December 4, 1796 ; 

 died December 24, 1875. He was educated at 

 the naval school at Brest, served with distinc- 

 tion in Spain, was appointed rear-admiral in 

 1840, naval commander of Algeria in 1841, 

 and vice-admiral in 1847. In 1849 he was 

 elected to the Legislative Assembly, and in the 

 same year was decorated with the Grand Cross 

 'of the Legion of Honor. 



LANDSTEINEB, LEOPOLD, a German journalist; 

 died February 22, 1875. He was for some time 

 in Paris as contributor to the Journal des De- 

 bats, and afterward as editor of the National, at 

 that time the principal organ of the opposition. 

 In 1848 he returned to Vienna, and became one 

 of the editors of the Allgemeine OestercicJiische 

 Zeitung. In the following year he became 

 editor-in-chief of the official journal of the Min- 

 ister-President Prince Felix Schwartzenberg, 

 and a few years after founded the Morgenpost, 

 a very popular journal. 



LAPLACE, OTEILLE, a French naval officer, 

 born November 7, 1793 ; died January 24, 1875. 

 In 1828 he was appointed captain of the Favor- 

 ite, with which he was ordered to sail around 

 the world. The result of this voyage he laid 

 down in the book "Voyage autour du Monde, 

 par les Mers de 1'Inde et de Chine, execute" sur 

 la Corvette de 1'HStat la Favorite pendant 1830 

 -'32 " (4 vols., 1833-'35). In 1837 he under- 

 took a second voyage around the world on 

 board the Arte'mise, which he described in 

 " Campagne de Circumnavigation de la Frigate 

 1'Artemise pendant les Anne"es 1837-'40" 

 (1840-'54). He was appointed rear-admiral in 

 1844, and vice-admiral in 1853, in which year 

 he was also elected President of the Geograph- 

 ical Society of Paris. 



LATJTEBS, PAUL, a Belgian painter in water- 

 colors, born in 1806 ; died in November, 1875. 

 He excelled in landscapes, and was professor in 

 the Royal Academy in Brussels. 



LEAHY, PATRICK, .an Irish prelate, born in 

 1807; died January 26, 1875. He was for a 

 time Vice-Rector and Professor of Biblical Ex- 

 egesis in the new Catholic University in Dub- 

 lin. In 1857 he was made Archbishop of 

 Cashel. 



LOGOOK, Sir CHARLES, Bart., an English phy- 

 sician, born Aprft 21, 1799 ; died July 23, 1875. 

 He graduated M.D. from the University of 

 Edinburgh, and, having settled in London, was 

 appointed first physician-accoucheur to the 

 Queen in 1840, Having retired from the active 



duties of his profession in 1857, he became 

 President of the Royal Medical Chirurgical 

 Society, and on April 14, 1857, was made a 

 baronet. 



LOEBEN, ALBEBT, Count VON, a German states- 

 man, born April 29, 1800; died April 2, 1875. 

 In 1855 he became a member of the Prussian 

 Herrenhaus. 



LOGAN, Sir WILLIAM EDMOND, a British geol- 

 ogist, born in 1798 ; died in July, 1875. He 

 studied at the University of Edinburgh; was 

 appointed Director of the Geological Survey of 

 Canada in 1840 ; was created a knight in 1856, 

 and was one of the jurors in 'the scientific de- 

 partment of the International Exhibition of 

 1862. He was the author of various works on 

 the coal-fields of Southern Wales, and various 

 other geological works. 



LOHDE, Dr. GEORG, a German naturalist ; 

 died October 19, 1875. He studied at Berlin, 

 Heidelberg, Leipsic, and Strasburg. He was 

 about to start for the German station Chin- 

 choao, on the west coast of Africa, when be was 

 taken sick. He wrote " Ueber die Entwicke- 

 lungsgeschichte und den Bau einiger Samen- 

 schalen," "Zur Kenntniss der Gattung Glo- 

 cocystis," and " Insectenepidemien, welche 

 durch Pilze hervorgerufen werden." 



LOTZE, HERMANN, a German philologist ; died 

 April 27, 1875. He was official interpreter in 

 Leipsic of fourteen languages. 



LOVAT, THOMAS ALEXANDER FRASKR, Baron, 

 a British peer, born in 1802.; died June 28, 

 1872. He was Lord-Lieutenant of Inverness- 

 shire from 1853 to 1873. 



LYONNET, JEAN PAUL FRANCOIS MARIE, a 

 French prelate, born June 12, 1801 ; died De- 

 cember 23, 1875. He was ordained as priest 

 in 1824, and for some time was director of vari- 

 ous educational institutions. In 1848 he was 

 appointed Dean of the Chapter of Dreux, and 

 soon after Vicar-General of Lyons. In 1851 he 

 was appointed Bishop of Saint-Flour, in 1857 

 of Valence, and in 1864 Archbishop of Albi. In 

 1858 he was made an Officer of the Legion of 

 Honor. He wrote " Tractatus de Oontractibus " 

 (1837), " Tractatus de Justitia et Jure " (1837), 

 u Le Cardinal Fesch" (2 vols., 1841), " His- 

 toire de Mgr. d'Avien " (2 vols., 1847). 



MACDONNELL, Sir ALEXANDER, born in 1794 ; 

 died January 21, 1875. He was resident com- 

 missioner of the Board of National Education 

 in Ireland from 1839 to 1871, and was created 

 a baronet in 1872. 



MAGEEE, FRANZ, Freiherr VON, a Bavarian 

 lieutenant-general, born in 1785 ; died February 

 10, 1875. He entered the army when quite 

 young, and up to 1815 took part in eight, cam- 

 paigns. 



MARGARY, AUGUSTUS RAYMOND, a British 

 diplomatic officer, born at Belgaune, Bombay, 

 May 26, 1846 ; was murdered at Manwyne, 

 February 21, 1875. From 1867 to 1874 he had 

 acted as consul at various posts in China and 

 Formosa, and in 1874 he joined the Browne 

 Expedition to Yunnan as interpreter. In order 



