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# Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan

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Periodical published by the Asiatic Society of Japan since 1872. As many volumes are still copyrighted, the following list is potentially incomplete. In addition, for later volumes only tables of contents may be available.

## Series One (1872–1922)

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## Series Two (1924–1940)

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# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Lane, Charles Edward William

​LANE, CHARLES EDWARD WILLIAM (1786–1872), general in the Indian army, son of John and Melissa Lane, was born 29 Oct. 1786, and baptised at St. Martin’s-in-the-Fields, London, in November the same year. He was nominated to a cadetship in 1806, and passed an examination in Persian and Hindustani, for which he was awarded a gratuity of twelve hundred rupees and a sword. His commissions in the infantry were: ensign 13 Aug. 1807, lieutenant ​14 July 1812, captain (army 5 Feb. 1822) 30 Jan. 1824, major 30 April 1835, lieutenant-colonel 26 Dec. 1841, colonel 25 May 1852. He became major-general in 1854, lieutenant-general in 1866, general in 1870. He shared the Deccan prize as lieutenant 1st Bengal native infantry for ‘general captures.’ He sought permission in 1824 to change his name to Mattenby, but the request was refused as beyond the competence of the Indian government. He served with the 2nd native grenadier battalion in Arracan in 1825, was timber agent at Naulpore in 1828, and was in charge of the commissariat at Dinapore in 1832. As major he commanded his regiment in Afghanistan under Sir William Nott in 1842, and commanded the garrison of Candahar when, during the temporary absence of Nott, the place was assaulted on 10 March 1842 by an Afghan detachment, which was repulsed with heavy loss (see London Gazette, 6 Sept. 1842). Lane received the medal for Candahar and Cabul, and was made C.B. 27 Dec. 1842. He died in Jersey 18 Feb. 1872, aged 85.
[Indian Army Lists; information obtained from the India office.]
H. M. C.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Lane, Edward (1605-1685)

​LANE, EDWARD (1605–1685), theological writer, born in 1605, was elected a scholar at St. Paul’s School, where he was among the pupils of Alexander Gill the elder [q. v.], and was admitted on 4 July 1622 at St. John's College, Cambridge, graduating B.A. 1625–6, M.A. 1629. In 1631 he was presented (admitted 24 March) to the vicarage of North Shoebury, Essex, by the crown, through the lord keeper, Thomas Coventry [q. v.]; he resigned on 28 Jan. 1636, being presented by the same patron to the vicarage of Sparsholt, Hampshire. He was also rector of Lainston, Hampshire, a parish adjoining, probably from 1637. On 9 July 1639 he was incorporated M.A. at Oxford. In 1644, being a ‘time of warre,’ Lane was absent from Sparsholt. He was recommended by the assembly of divines to fill the sequestrated benefice of Sholden, Kent, 27 Feb. 1644–5 (Addit. MS. 15669, p. 39b). His incumbency at Sparsholt lasted fifty years. He collected, and transcribed the registers from 1607, and seems to have been an exemplary parish clergyman. He died on 2 Sept. 1685 in his eighty-first year, and was buried on 4 Sept. in the chancel of Sparsholt Church. His wife Mary was buried on 27 Oct. 1669. His children, none of whom survived him, included Edward, buried 17 May 1660, who had been in Ireland, and Henry, baptised 11 April 1639, probationer scholar of New College, Oxford, buried 6 Oct. 1659.
He published:
* ‘Look unto Jesus,’ &c., 1663, 4to (British Museum copy has author's corrections, and a manuscript presentation, with pretty verses, to Anne and Catherine Chettle).
* ‘Mercy Triumphant,’ &c. 1680, 4to (against Lewis du Moulin [q. v.], who held that ‘probably not one in a million’ of the human race would be saved); 2nd edition, with title ‘Du Moulin’s Reflections Reverberated,’ &c., 1681, 8vo, has appended ‘Answer’ to the ‘Naked Truth. The Second Part Part,’ by Edmund Hickeringill [q. v.] (Wood). Bound with the British Museum copy (696, f. 13) of No. 1 is a autograph manuscript, pp. 229, ready for press, and included in the gift to the Misses Chettle, its title being ‘A Taste of the Euerlasting ffeast … in Heauen At the Marriage-Supper of the Lambe … by E.L.,’ &c.
From 1638 to 1641 he wrote his surname ‘LLane.’ Lane left in manuscript a ‘Discourse of the Waters of Noah,’ in reply to Thomas Burnett’s Theory of the Earth’ (Notes and Queries, 5th ser. x. 181, 273). ‘An Image of our Reforming Times,’ &c., 1654, 4to, is by Colonel Edward Lane, ‘of Ham-pinnulo,’ a Fifth monarchy man.
[Wood’s Fasti (Bliss), i. 510 sq., ii. 127; Gardiner’s Register of St. Paul’s School, 1884. p. 34; information from the Rev. Evelyn D. Heathcote, vicar of Sparsholt.]
A. G.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Lane, Hunter

​LANE, HUNTER (d. 1853), medical writer, was admitted a licentiate of the Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh, in 1829, and graduated M.D. at Edinburgh University in 1830. He was honorary physician to the Cholera Hospital, Liverpool, during 1831-2, and physician to the Lock Hospital of the Infirmary there in 1833. In 1834 he collaborated with James Manby Gully [q. v.] in a translation of ‘A Systematic Treatise on Comptarative Physiology,' by Professor Frederic Tiedemann of Heidelberg, 2vols. 8vo. In 1840 he was appointed senior physician of the Lancaster Infirmary, and in the same year brought out his ‘Compendium of Materia Medica and Pharmacy, adapted to the London Pharmacopœia, embodying all the new French, American, and Indian Medicines, an also comprising a summary of Practical Toxicology,' a work of considerable value in its day. He was shortly afterwards elected president of the Royal Medical Society of Edinburgh. For the last few years of his life Lane resided at 58 Brook Street, Grosvenor Square, and had an excellent London practice. He died at Brighton on 23 June 1853.
Besides the works mentioned, Lane contributed numerous articles to the medical papers, and for some time edited the ‘Liverpool Medical Gazette' and the ‘Monthly Archives of the Medical Science.' He is said also (Med. Direct. 1853) to have written an ‘Epitome of Practical Chemistry,'
[Gent. Mag. 1853. pt. ii. 420; Med. Direct. 1854, obit. p. 798; Brit. Mus. Cat.]
T. S.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Lane, John Bryant

1904 Errata appended.
​LANE, JOHN BRYANT (1788–1868), painter, born at Helston in Cornwall in 1788, was son of Samuel Lane, chemist and excise-man, and Margaret Baldwin his wife. Lane was educated at Truro until he was fourteen when his taste for art was noticed by Lord de Dunstanville of Tehidy, who afforded him the means to practise it in London. Lane obtained a gold medal from the Society of Arts for an historical cartoon of ‘The Angels Unbound.’ In 1808 he exhibited at the Royal Academy an altarpiece for Lord de Dunstanville’s church in Cornwall; in 1811 ‘Christ mocked by Pilate's Soldiers,’ for the guildhall at Helston; in 1817 'Eutychus,’ for a church in London. In 1817 his patron sent him to Rome, where he remained for ten years, engaged on a gigantic picture ‘The Vision Joseph,’ which he refused to show during progress. At last he completed it, and exhibited it at Rome. Certain details in it were offensive to the papal authorities, who expelled the artist and his picture from the papal dominions. Lane then sent the picture to London, where he exhibited it in ​a room at the royal mews, Charing Cross. Its huge size attracted attention, but from, an artistic point of view it was a complete failure. It was deposited in the Pantechnicon, where it mouldered to decay. Lane subsequently devoted himself to portrait-painting, and sent portraits occasionally the the Royal Academy, exhibiting for the last time in 1884. Among his sitters were Hussey Vivian, Mr. Davies-Gilbert, Mr. le Grice, and Lord de Dunstanville. Lane died, unmarried, at 45 Clarendon Square, Somers Town, London, on 4 April 1868, aged 80.
[Redgrave's Dict. of Artists; Boase and Courtney's Bibliotheca Cornubiensis: Boase's Collectanea Cornub.; Gent. Mag. xcviii. (1828) ii. 61; Royal Academy Catalogues.]
L. C.
Dictionary of National Biography, Errata (1904), p.177 N.B.— f.e. stands for from end and l.l. for last line
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# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Perkins, John

​PERKINS or PARKINS, JOHN (d. 1545), jurist, was educated at Oxford, but left the university without taking a degree. Going to London, he was called to the bar of the Inner Temple, and is spoken of as a ‘fellow’ there. He may possibly have been the John Perkins who was a groom of the royal chamber in 1516. He died in 1545, and is said to be buried in the Temple Church. Perkins is remembered by a popular text-book which he wrote for law students. Its title is, as given by Wood, ‘Perutilis Tractatus sive explanatio quorundam capitulorum valde necessaria,’ but the first edition probably had no title-page. It was printed in 1530 in Norman-French. An English translation appeared in 1642, and another in 1657. There is a manuscript English version in Brit. Mus. Harl. MS. 5035, which was made in the time of James I. A copy of the book itself forms Brit. Mus. Hargrave MS. 244. The fifteenth edition, by Richard J. Greening, was issued in 1827. Fulbeck, in his ‘Direction or Preparative to the Study of the Law,’ praises Perkins for his wit rather than his judgment.
W. A. J. A.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Perkins, Henry

​PERKINS, HENRY (1778–1855), book collector, was born in 1778, and became a partner in the firm of Barclay, Perkins, & Co., brewers, Southwark. He was elected a fellow of the Linnean Society in 1825, and was also a fellow of the Geological and Horticultural Societies. In 1823 he commenced the formation of a library at his residence, Springfield, near Tooting, Surrey, which he soon enlarged at the sale of Mr. Dent's collection. Messrs. John and Arthur Arch of 61 Cornhill, London, were then appointed his buyers, and rapidly supplied him with many scarce and valuable books. He died at Dover on 15 April 1855, when his library came to his relative, Algernon Perkins of Hanworth Park, Middlesex, who died in 1870. The books were sold by Gadsden, Ellis, & Co. at Hanworth on 3, 4, 5, and 6 June 1873, the 865 lots producing 26,000l., being the largest amount ever realised for a library of the same extent; ten volumes alone going for ten thousand guineas. The ‘Mazarin Bible,’ two volumes, printed upon vellum, purchased for 504l., sold for 3,400l.; another copy, on paper, obtained for 195l., brought 2,690l.; ‘Biblia Sacra Latina,’ two volumes, printed upon vellum in 1462, the first edition of the Latin Bible with a date, bought at Dent's sale for 173l. 5s., sold for 780l. Miles Coverdale's Bible, 1535, imperfect, but no perfect copy known, purchased for 89l. 5s., brought 400l. Among the manuscripts, John Lydgate's ‘Sege of Troy’ on vellum, which cost 99l. 15s., went for 1,370l.; ‘Les Œuvres Diverses de Jean de Meun,’ a fifteenth-century manuscript of two hundred leaves, brought 690l., and ‘Les Cent Histoires de Troye,’ by Christine de Pisan, on vellum, with one hundred and fifteen miniatures, executed for Philip the Bold, duke of Burgundy, sold for 650l. The 865 lots averaged in the sale rather more than 30l. each.
G. C. B.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Perkins, Joseph

​PERKINS, JOSEPH (fl. 1711), poet, born in 1658, was the younger son of George Perkins of Slimbridge, Gloucestershire. He matriculated from Oriel College, Oxford, on 16 July 1675, and graduated B.A. in 1679. After leaving Oxford he obtained a post as chaplain in the navy, and sailed to the Mediterranean in the Norfolk under Admiral Edward Russell (afterwards Earl of Orford) [q. v.] He was very prolific in complimentary verse, and wrote Latin elegies on Sir Francis Wheeler (1697) and other naval worthies; he was, however, cashiered in the course of 1697 for having, it was alleged, brought a false accusation of theft against a naval officer. He wrote a highly florid Latin elegy upon the Duke of Beaufort, which was printed in 1701, and by flattering verses and dedications, together with occasional preaching, he was enabled, though not without extreme difficulty, to support a large family. His efforts to obtain preferment at Tunbridge Wells and at Bristol were unsuccessful. In 1707 he produced two small volumes of verse: ‘The Poet's Fancy, in a Love-letter to Galatea, or any other Fair Lady, in English and Latin’ (London, 4to), and ‘Poematum Miscellaneorum a Josepho Perkins Liber primus’ (no more printed) (London, 4to). Most of his miscellanies were in Latin, and he styled himself the ‘Latin Laureate,’ or, to air his Jacobite sympathies, the ‘White Poet.’ He tried to curry favour among the nonjurors, and wrote in 1711 ‘A Poem, both in ​English and Latin, on the death of Thomas Kenn’ (Bristol, 4to). The poet's elder brother, George, became in 1673 vicar of Fretherne in Gloucestershire; but he himself does not appear to have obtained a benefice, and nothing is known of him subsequent to 1711. In addition to the works named, two sermons and several elegies were separately published in his name.
An engraving of Perkins by White is mentioned by Bromley.
[Works in British Museum; Watt's Bibl. Brit.; Foster's Alumni Oxon. 1500–1714; Rawl. MSS. iii. 199, iv. 102.]
T. S.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Perkins, Loftus

​PERKINS, LOFTUS (1834–1891), engineer and inventor, son of Angier March Perkins [q. v.], was born on 8 May 1834 in Great Coram Street, London. At a very early age he entered his father's manufactory, and in 1853–4 he practised on his own account as an engineer in New York. Returning to England, he remained with his father until 1862, and from that time to 1866 he was in business at Hamburg and Berlin, designing and executing many installations for warming buildings in various parts of the continent. He again returned to England in 1866, when he entered into a partnership with his father, which continued to the death of the latter in 1881.
Perkins inherited much of the inventive capacity of his father and grandfather, and from 1859 downwards he took out a very large number of patents. The chief subjects to which he directed his attention were, however, the use of very high pressure steam as a motive power, and the production of cold. His yacht Anthracite, constructed in 1880, was fitted with engines working with steam at a pressure of five hundred pounds on the inch, and it is probably the smallest ship that ever crossed the Atlantic steaming the entire distance. The Loftus Perkins, a very remarkable Tyne ferryboat, was worked with compound engines on his system with boilers tested to 200 lb. (Engineer, 2 June 1880). His experiments on the production of cold resulted in the ‘arktos,’ a cold chamber suitable for preserving meat and other articles of food. It is based on the separation of ammonia gas from the water in which it is dissolved, the liquefaction of the gas, and the subsequent revaporisation of the ammonia, with the reabsorption of the gas by the water. This was his last great work, and his unremitting attention to it caused a permanent breakdown of his health.
He became a member of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers in 1861, and of the Institution of Civil Engineers in 1881. He died on 27 April 1891, at his house in Abbey Road, Kilburn, London. He married an American, a daughter of Dr. Patten. He left two sons, both of whom are engaged in their father's business, now carried on by a limited company.
[Obituary notice in the Engineer, 1 May 1891, which contains a full account of his various inventions, and private information; Proc. Inst. C. E. vol. cv.]
R. B. P.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Perkins, Angier March

​PERKINS, ANGIER MARCH (1799?–1881), engineer and inventor, second son of Jacob Perkins, was born at Newbury Port, Massachusetts, at the end of the last century. He came to England in 1827, and was for some time associated with his father in perfecting his method of engraving bank-notes, and of using steam under very high pressure. Following up the latter subject, Perkins introduced a method of warming buildings by means of hot water circulating through small closed pipes, which came into extensive use, and was the foundation of a large business carried on first in Harpur Street, and subsequently in Francis Street, now Seaford Street, Gray's Inn Road, London. The method was improved from time to time, the various modifications being embodied in patents granted in 1831 (No. 6146), 1839 (No. 8311), and 1841 (No. 9664). In 1843 he took out a patent (No. 9664) for the manufacture of iron by the use of superheated steam, which contained the germ of subsequent discoveries relating to the conversion of iron into steel and the elimination of phosphorus and sulphur from iron. The patent includes also a number of applications of superheated steam.
In later years the system of circulating water in closed pipes of small diameter, heated up to two thousand pounds per square inch of steam pressure, was applied to the heating of bakers' ovens. This has been extensively adopted: it possesses the advantage that the heat may be easily regulated. It was patented in 1851 (No. 13509), and subsequently much improved. He also took out a patent in 1851 (No. 13942) for railway axles and boxes.
He was elected an associate of the Institution of Civil Engineers in May 1840, but, begin of a somewhat retiring disposition, he seldom took part in the discussions. He died on 22 April 1881, at the age of eighty-one. His son Loftus is noticed separately.
[Memoir in Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers, vol. lxvii. pt. i.]
R. B. P.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Perigal, Arthur

​PERIGAL, ARTHUR (1784?–1847), historical painter, descended from an old Norman family driven to England by the revocation of the edict of Nantes, was born about 1784. He studied under Fuseli at the Royal Academy, and in 1811 gained the gold medal for historical painting, the subject being ‘Themistocles taking Refuge at the Court of Admetus.’ He had begun in 1810 to exhibit both at the Royal Academy and at the British Institution, sending to the former a portrait and ‘Queen Katherine delivering to Capucius her Farewell Letter to King Henry the Eighth,’ and to the latter ‘The Restoration of the Daughters of Œdipus’ and ‘Helena and Hermia’ from the ‘Midsummer Night's Dream.’ These works were followed at the Royal Academy by ‘Aridæus and Eurydice’ in 1811, his ‘Themistocles’ in 1812, ‘The Mother's last Embrace of her Infant Moses’ in 1813, and again in 1816, and by a few pictures of less importance, the last of which, ‘Going to Market,’ appeared in 1821. His contributions to the British Institution included ‘Roderick Dhu discovering himself to FitzJames’ in 1811, the ‘Death of Rizzio’ in 1813, ‘Joseph sold by his Brethren’ in 1814, ‘Scipio restoring the Captive Princess to her Lover’ in 1815, and, lastly, ‘The Bard’ in 1828. He for some time practised portrait-painting in London; but about 1820 he appears to have gone to Northampton, and afterwards removed to Manchester. Finally he settled in Edinburgh, where he obtained a very good connection as a teacher of drawing, and from 1833 onwards exhibited portraits and landscapes at the Royal Scottish Academy. Perigal died suddenly at 21 Hill Street, Edinburgh, on 19 Sept. 1847, aged 63.
His son, Arthur Perigal (1816–1884), landscape-painter, born in London in August 1816, was instructed in painting by his father. At first a drawing-master in Edinburgh, he sent in 1838 to the exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy a study of John Knox's pulpit and some scenes in the Trossachs, and from that time became a regular contributor of landscapes, sending more than three hundred. He roamed in search of subjects over all parts of Scotland, and occasionally into the mountainous districts ​of England and Wales. He repeatedly visited Switzerland and Italy, and also made an extended tour in Norway; but his preference was for the scenery of the Scottish Highlands and the banks of the Tweed and Teviot. In 1841 he was elected an associate of the Royal Scottish Academy, and in 1868 he became an academician. He painted also in water-colours, and exhibited occasionally at the Royal Academy and other London exhibitions. He was a keen and skilful angler. He died suddenly at 7 Oxford Terrace, Edinburgh, on 5 June 1884, and was buried in the Dean Cemetery. ‘Moorland, near Kinlochewe, Ross-shire,’ by him, is in the National Gallery of Scotland.
R. E. G.
# Unheard-of Curiosities/12

Whether it be possible to read any thing, in the Clouds, and in all other Meteors.
the contents.
* How many waies this Reading by the Meteors may be performed.
* Battailes, and fearful Prodigies seen in the Aire.
* The Reasons they give, who are of opinion, that these things are Supernaturall.
* Reasons given to the Contrary. Angels, and Saints, how they have sometimes been seen to appeare in the Clouds.
* A new, and quaint opinion, touching the divers kinds of figures that appeare in the Clouds : and a conjecture upon the Secret, mentioned by Trithemius, of conveying Newes a great distance off.
* The Author's Resolution, concerning Strange Sights in the Aire.
* The Raining of Blood, in the Figure of a Crosse, not Naturall; against Cardan.
* The Manna in the Wildernesse, marked with the Hebrew letter ו Vav, according to some of the Rabbins : and what consequence we may hence deduce, against them.
* Haile in Languedoc, figured like Armes : Snow, like Stars in shape, spoken of by Kepler.
* The Rainbow, the Hieroglyphick of sorrow.
* Diverse Opinions, concerning the Generation of Comets : and whether, they naturally presage some Evill to come, or not.
* Rules to know, what Pillars, Swords, Bucklers, Trumpets, and fiery Arrows, seen in the Air, foretell. Hebrew Letters sometimes seen in the Air.
* What Letters have been devised, in Imitation of the Figures made by Cranes in their Flight. Presages of Accidents to come, taken from birds.