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SHI REID, HARL (1846), Brit. jurist and politician; was called to the bar 1871, and became Q.C. twelve years later; became Liberal'M.P. for Here ford - 1880, subsequently representing his native county, Dumfries, from 1885 till 1905. He was appointed solicitor general, 1894, and later in the year became attorney-general. He was lord chancellor, 1905-12, and was created a baron, 1906 and an earl, 1911. Author of Capture at Sea, 19138; and How the War Came, 1919. an American railroad president,<b.= in Fulton City, Til. He graduated from Rutgers College in 1877 and immediately entered the service of the Pennsylvania R.R. as a member of its engineering staff. He rose through the various grades until he became a divisional general manager. From 1901 to 1904 he was president of the Baltimore & Ohio R.R. Co., since 1907 he has been president of president or director of 34 other companies affiliated or otherwise connected with it, and a director of a great number of other corporations outside of the railroad industry. £.), rock, some 430 ft. high, on right pank of Rhine, a few miles below Bingen; legendary haunt ofa siren. Die L. is a celebrated poem by Heine. “LORENZ, ADOLF (1854); Austrian orthopedic surgeon. He graduated from the University of Vienna in 1880 and later became profe or of surgery there. Specializing in orthopedic surgery, he developed an operation in hip joint diseases that made him famous. It was a ‘bloodle ’ method of reducing congenital dislocation, and consisted first in stretching and parting the muscles instead of cutting them, and then by manipulation alone. After the operation the patient wore a plaster cast for several months. His method was generally recognized as efiective by the German medical profe ion. In 1902 he demons i rated the operation in the United States, arousing great interest, and in 1921 paid another visit to treat poor disabled children out of gratitude for American aid given to starving Vienna following the World War. He remained several months in New York City, treating many cases, and received a New York State license to practice medicine. His methods were challenged by American orthopedic surgeons, who opposed his holding clinics. On the other hand he was received at City Hall and thanked by the mayor for his services to crippled children. He invented several instruments and developed other orthopedic operations, including a method of remedying clubfoot. part ment, N.E. Peru; a vast plai thickly wooded; traversed by the Uca; ali and Huallaga; chief export, rub be: capital, Iquitos. Pop. c. 110,000.