nHI'ITAKIKS, AMKKIi AN. <LEOUD LoMWO.) 





published papers exceed 800 in number, uinl wore all 



nil biological subject*. . \moiitf tin-in an-- .Mi-uii>ir "ii 



1. of tin- American < \ v 



"A Flora and Fan. :i \\ithin Living Animals" 

 " Alu-ii lit Fauna of NchrasU.. 



-I. .tli Tribe ..f North Am, M . "The 



Cretaceous llcptiles ni' tin- I'niti-il M:.' 



"Tin- K \tiin-t .Maiiiiiinliuii Fauiiii of Dakota an<l 



1 ontribntioni to tin- Kxtim-t 



Vertebrate l-'aiina "I tin- Western Territories " I 1*7:1 i , 



Mption of Vertebrate Remains from tin- I'll"* 

 pha'e IJcds of South ( 'urolinu '' ( 1*77 ) ; " Fresh uat.i 

 RhiBOpods "i North Ann-rira"i 1*7'.') ; ' Tin- Parasites 

 of the Termites ' i l.ssi i ; on Maiiayunkia Speeiosa '' 



; and -'Tape- worms in Birds" (1887). Th; 

 ton-iroiiiLr \\crc all issued by tin- Arinli-my "t Natural 

 Sciences, tin- Smithsonian Institution, and under the 

 auspices oi tin- National <io\ eminent as special mono- 

 graphs. He edited an edition of Bharpiey undQuuin's 

 - Anatomy,'' and wrote "An Kleiiientary Text-book 

 on Human Anatomy " (Philadelphia. l-i'.i ; in-\v edi- 

 tion 18 ). In his memory u fund ot $50,000 In being 



eolleeted ill order to establish a Leidy Memorial Mil 

 scum as an independent part of the museum now 

 at the I niversity of Pennsylvania. 



Leonard, William Henry, jurist, Wn in Amenia, 

 Dim-bos County, N. V., June 11, 1812; died in Bed- 

 ford, \Vcstehcster County,. N". V.. Ma\ .'JO, 1891. In 

 early life he went to llud.-on, N. V., \\here lie studied 

 law ami was admitted to tile bur, und was afterward 

 a partner ot John T. llott'nian, (iilbert M.Siiier, Sam- 

 uel M. Woodrull, and Chief-Justice Charles II. Van 

 Brunt. On May 1-2, 1ST -2, he was appointed u justice 

 ot the Supreme ( 'ourt of New York, to till a vacancy. 

 llesides his service on this bench, he was a member 

 of the Commission ot Appeals, which hud charge of 

 the organization and prepared the calendar for the 

 newly established Court of Appeals. For ten years 

 he lived in retirement 



Lippitt, Henry, manufacturer, born in Providence, 

 R. L, Out 9, 118; died there, June 5, 1891. lie re- 

 ceived an academical education, became a clerk in a 

 cotton- brokerage office in Providence in 1835, and 

 afterward was a partner in several large manufactur- 

 ing firms, including Wuleott & Lippitt, Amory, Cha- 

 pin & Co., and the Quinebaug Manufacturing Com- 

 pany, and in the Coddington, Social, and Harrison 

 Cotton Mills. In 1858 he gave up the commission 

 part of his business to confine himself to his munu- 

 faeturinir interests. He was a president or director 

 of many linaiu-ial and public institutions. In 1840 

 he aided in organizing the Providence Marine Corps 

 of Artillery, and in 184--' commanded it during the 

 Dorr u rebellion," protecting the State arsenal and 

 first entering the Dorr fort at the capture of Acotes 

 Hill, lie was elected Governor of Rhode Island in 

 1875 and Is7>'> as a Republican. 



Littlefield, Daniel M., manufacturer, born in North, 

 Kingctown, K. 1., Nov. '23, 18-22; died in Pnwtuckct, 

 K. I., May 81, 1891. He removed to Florence, Mass., 

 and beeame interested iii a new eotton mill ill 1846 

 was chosen President ot the Florence Sewing Machine 

 Company in 1 s.v;. ami went to Paw tucket and en imaged 

 in the manufacture of hair-cloth in 18(>;J. In Isc.i Y,i' 

 he waseleeted tothe Legislature of Massaclllisetts from 

 the Northampton district; in 187* h<- was an honor- 

 ary commissioner from Rhode Island to the Paris 

 Kxposition, where he was appointed an American 

 juror on fine machinery and mechanism : and in 

 isv.i he \\as elected Lieutenant I iovcrnor of Rhode 

 Island, as a Republican. 



Long, Annistead Lindsay, military officer, born in 

 Campliell County, Ya.. Sept. :',, lv-27: died in Char- 

 iotte.-ville, Ya., April -_".i. 1-~'.M. He was graduated at 

 the United States Military Academy, and ap|Hiinted a 

 brevet L'd lieutenant of artillery in \^'>o; was t: 

 signed to irarrison duty at iort Moultrie; was on 

 frontier duty in New Mexico in l^.vj '." t ; jir.imoted 

 1st lieutenant in ls.">4; n irarrixm duty at Port Mc- 

 llenry, Md., Marranea^ Harraeks, Fla., and Fort Wich- 

 ita, Indian Territory, in 1854-'57, and in Kunsa> in 



IH^-'ttO. Kurly in I--.1 he wu uj.|-.int. d on tliu 

 ntall nl iii-n. Sunnier, hi luther in luw. in \S a-hii^ 

 toil* hut oil .luiie 10 I i hi.- i-'.n u: 



Iii July following' he . : 



us major o| urtillery, und in IM;-^ he u* pi 



colonel, und up|xnntul military hccretury i 



Kobert K. I.e.. lie participated in all th. 



mint.- of the army under <n-n. Leo, reaching the rank 



<>l brigudii r-t'eneral in 18)3. After the war I 



cniriitfcd lor three y<-ai> in civil 



Rubsequently in funning. Ik- publinhi-d M M. luoim of 



(en. Bobort K. Lee." 



Loring, George Bailey, ngri<-ulturiht, \>m in North 



Andover, Ma., N<.\. s. 1^17 ; died in Sulem, MUMS., 

 Sept. 14, 1891. He WUH graduated at Harvard i 

 in 1 >:;*, and at its medical sch.Mil in H}L'; w ; . 

 geon of the 7th Kegiment of State Militia in 184 

 and ot the Chd.M-a Marine Hospital in Is48-'50; wan 

 ajppointed I'nitcd States commit-.-ioncr to rt-visc the 

 I nitcd States marine-ho>piial svntem in lM'.i;and 

 was postmaster of Sulem in While em- 



ployed with these duties he began a practical and 

 scientific study of agriculture. c>tabli?.hed an experi- 

 mental farm of 450 acres about equidistant from 

 Salem, Marhlehead, and Swampscott, and la-came 

 widely known as a lecturer and authority on agricult- 

 ural subjects. In 18C6-'*;7 he was a mi'inber of the 

 State HOII.-M- of Kepreseiitativo, and in 1873-76 was 

 President ot the State Senate. Karly in life he was 

 a Democrat in politics, and he attended the national 

 convention in Baltimore in l*5<i; but he joined the 

 Republican party in 1864, and acted with it till his 

 death. He was a delegate to the National Republican 

 Conventions ot l-r,s. i^-j, and 1^7)t was up]>ointc<l 

 Centennial commissioner from Mas>aehiiM tt> in 1^7^; 

 und was elected to Congress from the *!th Massachu- 

 setts District in 1876, arid re-elected in 1878. In 1881 

 President Gartield appointed him United States Com- 

 missioner of Agriculture, and he held the otlice till 

 1885. In 1889 President Harrison appointed him 

 United States minister to Portugal, which office he 

 resigned in 1890. Hesides numerous addresses, he 

 published u The Relations of Agriculture to the State 



in Time of War "(1808); "Classical Culture" 



"Eulogy on Louis Agaasiz" (1873); "The Farm- 

 yard Club of Jotham" (1876); "The Cobden Club 

 and the American Farmer" (1880); an " Ad.. 

 the Atlanta Cotton Convention" (1881); and "A 

 Year in Portugal, l*v ' 



Lossing, Benson John, einrraver and author, lx>rn in 

 Beekman, Dutehess County, N. Y., Feb. I-.', 1813; 

 died near Dover Plains, in the same county, June 3, 

 1891. He was the son of a farmer, und WM appren- 

 ticed to a watch-maker in Poui;hkcepsic. with whom, 

 on the completion of his apprenticeship, he went 

 into partnership. A little later he became one of the 

 proprietors and editors of the Poiighkeepsie "Tele- 

 graph." In l.s:!i! they beirun the publieulion of a lit- 

 erary periodical called " The Casket." Mr. Lossing 

 then learned the art of wood-engraving in New York, 

 and in 1838-'4p was editor and illustrator of the 

 " Family Mtiira/'mc." Meanw hile he severed his busi- 

 ne>s CO'MIH vtions ill PouL'hkeep>ie and e>tabli.-hed 

 hirnsclt 'as a profe>sional engraver in New York. In 

 IMs he l-eirun work on his- Pictorial Field-l>ook of 

 the Revolution " < -J voU.. l-:,o T,:; i. to make which he 

 traveled all over that part of our country in which 

 the War of Independence was fought, writing ihe 

 history of the movements and engagements und mak- 

 ing accurate .-.ketches of every object that remained 

 at the .scenes of strife, every battlc-tield, every famous 

 document, and many relics preserved either in u 

 museum or in a private house. All the sketches he 

 engraved on wood with his own hand. Thi.- \\:is 

 his L T.-ate-! >ervice to the country ; l.y it he JTi 

 the likeness of many things that have already 

 perished, some years later he pr< jiarcd in u similar 

 way a" Pictorial Field-book oftheUari'i 1-1-'" 

 Formally yeai-s he contributed illustrnte.l ail: 

 "Harpert Magarine." and fr the I...i,d..!. 

 Journal " he pn-pan-d a - - "' articles descriptive 



