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See also:LONSDALE, See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
WILLIAM (1994-1871) , See also:English geologist and palaeontologist, was See also:born at See also:Bath on the 9th of See also:September 1794. He was educated for the See also:army and in 1810 obtained a See also:commission as See also:ensign in the 4th (See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
King's Own) See also:regiment. He served in the See also:Peninsular See also:War at the battles of See also:Salamanca and See also:Waterloo, for both of which he received medals; and he retired as See also:lieutenant. Residing afterwards for some years at Batheaston he collected a See also:series of rocks and fossils which he presented to the See also:Literary and Scientific Institution of Bath. He became the first honorary See also:curator of the natural See also:history See also:department of the museum, and worked until 182g when he was appointed assistant secretary and curator of the See also:Geological Society of See also:London
at See also:Somerset See also:House. There he held See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office until 1842, when See also:ill-See also:health led him to resign. The ability with which he edited the publications of the society and advised the See also:council " on every obscure and difficult point " was commented on by See also:Murchison in his presidential address (1843). In 1829 Lonsdale read before the society an important See also:paper " On the Oolitic See also:District of Bath " (Trans. Geol. See also:Soc. See also:ser. 2, vol. iii.), the results of a survey begun in 1827; later he was engaged in a survey of the Oolitic strata of See also:Gloucestershire (1832), at the instigation of the Geological Society, and he laid down on the one-See also:inch See also:ordnance maps the boundaries of the various geological formations. He gave particular See also:attention to the study of See also:corals, becoming the highest authority in See also:England on the subject, and he described fossil forms from the See also:Tertiary and Cretaceous strata of See also:North See also:America and from the older strata of See also:Britain and See also:Russia. In 1837 he suggested from a study of the fossils of the See also:South See also:Devon See also:lime-stones that they would prove to be of an See also:age intermediate between the Carboniferous and See also:Silurian systems. This See also:suggestion was adopted by See also:Sedgwick and Murchison in 1839, and may be regarded as the basis on which they founded the Devonian See also:system. Lonsdale's paper, " Notes on the Age of the Limestones of South See also:Devonshire " (read 1840), was published in the same See also:volume of the Transactions of the Geological Society (ser. 2, vol. v.) with Sedgwick and Murchison's famous paper " On the See also:Physical Structure of Devonshire," and these authors observe that " the conclusion arrived at by Mr Lonsdale, we now apply without reserve both to the five See also:groups of our North Devon See also:section, and to the fossiliferous slates of See also:Cornwall." The later years of Lonsdale's See also:life were spent in retirement, and he died at See also:Bristol on the rlth of See also:November 1871. (H. B. Wo.)
IONS-LE-SAUNIER, a See also:town of eastern See also:France, See also:capital of the department of See also:Jura, 76 m. N.N.E. of See also:Lyons on the See also:Paris-Lyons railway, on which it is a junction for Chalon-sur-See also:Saone, D61e, See also:Besancon and Champagnole. Pop. (1906) 10,648. The town is built on both sides of the See also:river Valliere and is surrounded by the See also:vine-clad hills of the western Jura. It owes its name to the See also:salt mines of Montmorot, its western suburb, which have been used from a very remote See also:period. The See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church of St See also:Desire, a See also:building of the 12th and 15th centuries, preserves a huge Romanesque See also:crypt. The town is the seat of a prefects and of a See also:court of assizes, and there are tribunals of first instance and of See also:commerce, a chamber of commerce, lycees and training-colleges for both sexes, and a See also:branch of the See also:Bank of France. There is an See also:establishment for the use of the See also:mineral See also:waters, which are sodio-chlorinated and have strengthening properties. The See also:principal See also:industry of the See also:place is the manufacture of sparkling wines, the Etoile growth being the best for this purpose. See also:Trade is in See also:cheese, cereals, horses, See also:cattle, See also:wood, &c.
Lons-le-Saunier, known as Ledo in the See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time of the Gauls, was fortified by the See also:Romans, who added the surname Salinarius to the Gallic name. An See also:object of contention owing to the value of its salt, it belonged for a See also:long time during the See also:medieval period to the powerful house of Chalon, a younger branch of that of See also:Burgundy. It was burned in 1364 by the English, and again in 1637, when it was seized by the See also:duke of See also:Longueville for See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis XIII. It became definitively See also:French in 1674. It was here that the See also:- MEETING (from " to meet," to come together, assemble, 0. Eng. metals ; cf. Du. moeten, Swed. mota, Goth. gamotjan, &c., derivatives of the Teut. word for a meeting, seen in O. Eng. Wit, moot, an assembly of the people; cf. witanagemot)
meeting between See also:Ney and See also:Napoleon took place, on the return of the latter from See also:Elba in 1815. Rouget de 1'Isle, the author of the Marseillaise, was born at Montaigu near this town, where there is a statue erected to him.
End of Article: LONSDALE, WILLIAM (1994-1871)
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