=Allen, Richard Lamb.= _Ms._, 1803-1869. Brother of L. F. Allen, _supra_, with whom, in 1842, he founded the American Agriculturalist. Domestic Animals; Diseases of Domestic Animals; New American Farm Book (with _L. F. Allen_). _See Last Letters of, with Memoir._ =Allen, Stephen Merrill.= _N. H._, 1819-1894. A banker and merchant of Boston. Fibrilia and Fibrous Manufactures, Ancient and Modern; Theories of Light; Religion and Science. =Allen, Timothy Field.= _Vt._, 1837-1902. A physician of New York city, dean of the Homœopathic Medical College from 1882. Characeæ Americanæ; General Symptom-Register of Homœopathic Materia Medica. He has edited Encyclopædia of Pure Materia Medica. =Allen, William.= _Ms._, 1784-1868. The author of an American Biographical and Historical Dictionary, the first edition of which appeared in 1809, the earliest work of the kind in the United States. From 1820 to 1829 he was president of Bowdoin College. Lectures to Young Men; Junius Unmasked; Wunissoo: a poem, with notes. =Allen, William Francis.= _Ms._, 1830-1889. Brother of J. H. Allen, _supra_. A professor in the University of Wisconsin. He published Outline Studies in the History of Ireland; Monographs and Essays; and edited a collection of Slave Songs. =Allen, Willis Boyd.= _Me._, 1855- ----. A Boston littérateur whose writings are popular with juvenile readers. Among them are The Red Mountain of Alaska; Pine Cones; Silver Rags; Kelp; The Mammoth Hunters. He has published In the Morning, a collection of verse. _Est. Lo. Ran._ =Allen, Zachariah.= _R. I._, 1795-1882. A noted inventor and manufacturer of Providence. Practical Tourist; Practical Mechanics; Philosophy of the Mechanics of Nature; Solar Light and Heat. _See Memorial by A. Perry, 1883._ _Ap._ =Allerton, Mrs. Ellen [Palmer].= _N. Y._, 1835-1893. A Kansas writer living at Padonia in that State. Poems of the Prairies. =Allibone, Samuel Austin.= _Pa._, 1816-1889. A Philadelphia author widely known by his Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors, a work of immense labour and research. It is of great value as a work of reference, but is not an infallible guide, and is more or less marred by trivial comment and moralizing. _See Pennsylvania Magazine, vol. 15, 1891._ _Lip._ =Allmond, Marcus Blakey.= _Va._, 1851- ----. An educator of Louisville who has published Estelle, an Idyl of Old Virginia, a volume of verse; Agricola, an Eastern Idyl; Outlines of Latin Syntax. =Allston= [awl´ston], =Robert Francis Withers.= _S. C._, 1801-1864. A South Carolina statesman well known at one time as an agricultural reformer. Memoir on Rice; Essay on Sea Coast Crops; Report on Public Schools. =Allston, Washington.= _S. C._, 1779-1843. A once famous artist of Cambridge who was also known as a poet and romancer. Sylphs of the Seasons and Other Poems; The Romance of Monaldi; Lectures on Art. _See Tuckerman’s Book of the Artists; Life and Letters, edited by J. Flagg, 1892._