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WHO'S WHO IN THE FAR EAST (June) 1906-7.

1883; acting Registrar General, 1884-1885; Registrar-General, 1887; and Member of Legislative Council 1889; Member of Executive Council,

1891; Chairman Board of Examiners

in Chinese, 1891; ditto, Governing Body, Queen's College, 1894; acting Colonial Secretary, April, 1894; Colonial Secretary and Registrar- General, March, 1895; Special Coin- missioner to report on the extension of the Boundary of Hongkong,

1808; Representative of Great Britain to delimit Boundaries, for both of which received thanks of

Secretary of State 1899; Commis- sioner of Wei-hai-wei, since 1902; carried on the negotiations relative

to the recession of Wei-hai-wei

with the Viceroy of Shantung, May,

1906. Publications: Mannal

Chinese Quotations; the Currency of the Farther East. Recreations :

Rowing, golf, riding, numismatics, folk-lore, the language and liter- ature of China; the history of British trade with the Far East,

and of the British Colonies. Clubs:

Royal Societies'; Hongkong; Ends of the Earth, New York. Address: Government House, Wei-hai-wei

China.

of

LOENHOLM, Prof. L. H. (TOKYO),

Professor at Imperial University; b. 1854. Joined Japanese Govern- ment Service many years ago; translated into English, Japanese Civil and Commercial Codes.

Decorations: 2rd class of Sacred

Treasure and Rising Sun, Japan; Erd class of Crown, Germany; 2rd

class of Iron Crown, Austria; Order

de l'Académie, and Order

de

Lom

l'Instruction Publique, France;

Address: 1, Minami-cho, Shichi- chome, Aoyama, Tokyo, Japan.

LOEW, Prof. Carl Benedict Oscar

(TOKYO), D.Ph., Prof. Agricul- tural Chemistry; b. April 2, 1844, at Redwitz, Bavaria; m. Olga Tarobi; d. of Capt. H. Tarobi. Educ.: Universities of Munich and

Leipzig. Took part in four scientific

expeditions to the S.W. States

of the Union (reports of which were published by the U.S. War Dept. Washington), 1873- 77, was later Docent at University of Munich; Professor at Tokyo University, 1893-97; Expert of Physiological Chemistry at U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, 1898-1900; Professor at Tokyo, 1901-6; discove- red a simple method of manu- facturing formalin on a big scale in 1883 and first observed its great antiseptic properties. Decorations :

4th class, Order of Sacred Treasure, Japan. Publications: "The

Physiological Role of Mineral

Nutrients," 1899; "The Energy of Living Protoplasm," 1896; "Ein Naturliches System der Giftwirk-

ungen," 1893; and numerous con- tributions to scientific journals. Address: College of Agriculture, Komaba, Tokyo, Japan.

LOMET, Henri (BAC-KAN), Resident; Administrator, 2nd class; b. Sept.

13, 1858. Entered Indo-China Civil Service, April 20, 1884; Administra-

tor 4th class, Jan. 12, 1892; Administrator, 3rd class, May 31, 1899; Administrator, 2nd class,

Jan. 1, 1903. Address: Bac-Kan,

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