John Kenyon

John Kenyon, an English poet, born in the island of Jamaica about 1783, died at Cowes, in the isle of Wight, Dec. 3, 1856. His father was a wealthy planter, and he graduated at Peterhouse college, Cambridge. He cultivated the acquaintance of Coleridge, Southey, and "Wordsworth, and in 1815 visited Italy and other parts of the continent of Europe. After his return to England he married Miss Caroline Curteis, whom he addresses as "Nea " in the "Verses written in a Churchyard," and whom he survived many years. His first volume of poetry, entitled "A Rhymer's Plea for Tolerance " (1833), was followed in 1838 by "Poems, for the most part Occasional." His last work was entitled "A Day at Tivoli, with other Verses." He used his large fortune with great generosity, and is said to have left legacies to 80 persons, many of whom were his old literary friends, including B. W. Procter (Barry Cornwall) (£6,000) and Mr. and Mrs. Robert Browning (£10,000).

John Landen

John Landen, an English mathematician, born at Peakirk, near Peterborough, in January, 1719, died Jan. 15, 1790. From 1762 to 1788 he was agent for Earl Fitzwilliam. His earliest mathematical writings appeared in the " Ladies' Diary" for 1744, and most of his subsequent papers were contributed to the " Transactions " of the royal society of London, of which he was admitted a member in 1766. He is best known by his "Residual Analysis " (London, 1764), in which he proposed a new form of fluxionary calculus, and invented a set of symbols. His plan has been thought an improvement on the method of ultimate ratios, but it lacks simplicity, and was never in general use. The principal other works of Landen are: "Mathematical Lucubrations " (4to, London, 1755); "Animadversions on Dr. Stewart's Computation of the Sun's Distance" (4to, 1771); "Observations on Converging Series " (4to, 1781); " Mathematical Memoirs" (2 vols. 4to, 1780-'89).

John Larkin Lincoln

John Larkin Lincoln, an American scholar, born in Boston, Feb. 23, 1817. He graduated in 1836 at Brown university, where, after two years' residence at the Newton theological institution, he held the office of tutor in Latin for two years, and then passed several years in Europe in travel and literary studies. In 1844 he returned to the United States, and in the autumn of that year was appointed professor of Latin in Brown university. He has published " Selections from Livy " (1847; new ed., 1871), the "Works of Horace" (1851), and Cicero Be Senectute (1872).

John Latham

John Latham, an English ornithologist, born at Eltham, Kent, June 27, 1740, died in Rom-sey, Feb. 4, 1837. In 1763 he commenced the practice of physic in Dartford. He early applied himself to the study of natural history, and aided Sir A. Lever in forming his museum. He became a fellow of the royal society in 1775, and was one of the founders of the Linnaean society. In 1796 he retired from practice. He is the author of a " General Synopsis of Birds" (6 vols., 1781-'5; 2 vols, additional, 1787-1801), and an Index Ornithologicus (1791). A new edition of his works in 10 vols. 4to, enlarged and rearranged, with a general index, under the title of "General History of Birds,'1 was commenced in 1821, and completed in 1824. The plates of this, as of his former works, were executed or retouched by himself. He also wrote papers on medical science and natural history.