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McLENNAN, John Cunningham, Cana dian physicist: b. Ingersoll, Ontario, 14 April 1867. He was educated at the universities of Toronto and Cambridge. From 1899 he was connected with the faculty in physics at Toronto, and since 1907 he has been professor of physics and director of the physical labora tory there. He waspresident of section III of the Royal Canadian Society in 1910; was elected to the Royal Society, London, in 1915; and in 1916-17 he was president of the Royal Canadian Institute. He was Dominion lecturer on the metric system in 1906; and is author of papers on radioactivity, electrical conduction of gases and spectroscopy.
McLENNAN,
John Ferguson, Scottish sociologist: b. Inverness, 14 Oct. 1827; d. Hayes Common, Kent, 16 June 1881. He was educated at King's College, Aberdeen, and Trin ity College, Cambridge, and after two years spent in journalism in London returned to Edinburgh, and was called to the bar in 1857. His first important publication was the article on 'Law) in the eighth edition of the 'Encyclo paedia Britannica) (1857), and in 1865 he elaborated some of its sp• rulations in 'Primitive Marriage: an Inquiry into the Origin of the Form of Capture in Marriage
In 1876 his 'Primitive Marriage) was republished with 'Kinship in Ancient Greece' and other matter under the title of
McLEOD, Alexander, Amer ican Presbyterian clergyman: b. Island of Mull,
Scotland, 12 June 1774; d. New York, 17 Feb. 1833. He came to the United States in 1792 and was graduated at Union College in 1798. He was licensed to preach in 1799 and was ordained in charge of the First Reformed Presbyterian Church of New York and of a church in Wall kill, N. Y. He soon resigned from the Wall kill charge, but retained his New York pastorate the remainder of his life. He was for a time an editor of the Christian Maqazine. Author of 'Negro Slavery Unjustifiable)
'Ecclesiastical Catechism) (1807) ;
McLEOD, Archibald Angus, American railway official: b. Compton County, Quebec, Canada, 1848; d. 1902. Early in life he came to the United States, where he became a rodman on the docks of the Northern Pacific Railway at Duluth, and in 1885 manager of the Elmira, Cortland and Northern line. He then was suc cessively acting general manager (1886), vice president and general manager (I::7) and president (1890) of the Reading system. His consolidation of the Lehigh Valley and Jersey Central with the Reading, under Reading con trol, for the purpose of controlling the carrying trade of the coal fields, resulted in the Reading passing into the hands of three receivers, of whom McLeod was one.
MacLEOD, Donald, Scottish Presbyterian clergyman and author: b. Campsie, Stirling shire, 18 March 1831; d. 17 Dec. 1911. He was a brother of Norman MacLeod (q.v.), whom he succeeded as editor of Good Words, 1872 1905. He was educated at the University of Glasgow. He held pastorates at Lauder (1858), Linlithgow (1862) and Glasgow (1869-1909), and, like his brother, was chaplain to Queen Victoria. He published 'Sunday Home Serv ice) (1885) ; 'Christ and Modern (1893), etc.