LAMSDORFF, Lints'dorf, or LAMBS. DORF, Vladimir Nikolaevitch, COUNT, Rus sian statesman: b. Petrograd, 25 Dec. 1844 (old style) ; d. 20 March 1907. He entered the For eign Office in 1866 and was continuously in service until his resignation in 1906. He be came Assistant Foreign Minister in 1897 and Foreign Minister in 1900. He was likewise Privy Councillor from 1901; and in 1902 he was Secretary of State to the emperor. He was one of the framers of the Pekin Treaty of 1900 which determined the future commercial relations of the two countries and stipulated that China should defray the costs involved in the suppression of the Boxer; and in his offi cial capacity worked earnestly in 1903 to avert the Russo-japanese War. He was successful in securing an amicable settlement with Great Bri tain when the Russian fleet by mistake fired on a British fishing fleet off Dogger Bank 25 Oct. 1904. He possessed all the Orders of Russia from 1898.
Frank, American botanist : b. Cambridgeport, Mass., 19 April 1851. He was graduated at the Maine State College of Agriculture in 1873; served two years as clerk to the secretary of the Maine State Board of Agriculture; and was an officer of Girard College (1876-84). In 1887 he was made chief of the section of vegetable pathology in the United States Department of Agriculture, and from 1888 to 1894 was professor of botany in the University of Tennessee, and director of the agricultural experiment station there 1890 94; chief of Division of Agrostology, United States Department of Agriculture, 1894-1901, and chief of the Insular Bureau of Agriculture, Philippine Islands, 1901-04. In 1889 he received
from the French Minister of Agriculture the cross of the Chevalier du Merite Agricole. He was in charge of exhibits of the United States Department of Agriculture at various expositions since 1904, including those at Saint Louis (1904), Portland, Ore. (1905), James town (1907), Seattle (1909), Buenos Aires (1910), Turin, Italy (1911), the Dry Farming expositions at Lethbridge, Can. (1912), Tulsa, Okla. (1913), Wichita, Kan. (1914), Denver, Colo. (1915); appointed expert on exhibits by the Secretary of Agriculture (1913) ; and mem ber of the Government Exhibit Board by the President for the Panama-Pacific International Exposition. Among his writings published in the proceedings of various bodies, encyclopaedias and in government reports, are 'Weeds of Maine) (1869) ; 'Ornamental and Useful Plants of Maine) (1874) • 'Agricultural Grasses of Central (1883) ; 'Revision of the North American Melicz) (1885) ; 'Grasses of Mountain Meadows and Deer Parks) (1889); 'Philippine Agriculture); 'Diseases of Plants' (1885-87); and papers on 'Grasses as Sand and Soil Binders,) and on 'Grasses and Foliage Plants,) including descriptions of many new species (1894-1900). He has also published 'The True Grasses,' translated from 'Die natiirlichen Pflanzenfamilien> (1890).