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losis, the bacilli of which he discovered and suc- 

 ceeded in cultivating. 



LAVOISIER, ANTOINE LAURENT, famous French 

 chemist, born at Paris in 1743, died in Paris in 

 1794. One of the founders of modern chemistry, 

 on the basis of a previously unknown law, that 

 of the conservation of matter: "Nothing is lost, 

 nothing is created." 



LIEBIG, JUSTUS, Baron von, German chemist, 

 born at Darmstadt in 1803, died at Munich in 

 1873. He was one of the first to apply chemical 

 analysis to the phenomena of organic life. 



LITTRE, MAXIMILIEN PAUL EMILE, French philol- 

 ogist and philosopher of the positivist school, 

 born at Paris in 1801, died at Paris in 1881. His 

 principal work is his Dictionary of the French 

 Language. He was a member of the Academic 

 Franchise. 



MITSCHERLICH, EILHARD, German chemist, 

 born at Neuende in 1794, died at Schoeneberg in 

 1863. He was the discoverer of the law of 

 isomorphism. 



NEEDHAM, JOHN TUBERVILLE, English physicist, 

 born at London in 1713, died at Brussels in 1781. 



NIEPCE, JOSEPH NICEPHORE, French chemist, born 

 at Chalon-sur-Saone in 1765, died in the same 



