A Proclamation
A Proclamation. Whereas, On The 22d Of September, In The Year Of Our Lord One Thonsand Eight Hundred Sixty Two, A Proclamation Was Issued By The President Of The United States, Containing, Among Other Things, The Following, To Wit: "that On The Ist Day Of January, In The Year Of ...
A Ustria
A Ustria. The New Field Gun Is Of East Steel, Calibre 7 Cm. (2.76 Inches), Using A Metallic •a•t Ridge Separated From The Projectile. Six Bat Teries Of These Guns (36 Guns) Were Issued Ill 1901 To The Troops For Trial. For Curved Fire The Austrian Artillery Has The 15 ...
Adalbert 1827 1900 Falk
Falk, Adalbert (1827-1900). A Prussian Statesman. He Was Born At Metschkau, Silesia, August 10, 1827. Lie Was The Son Of A Protestant Clergyman, And Studied Law At Breslau And Ber Lin. In 1847 He Entered The State Service Of Prussia; In 1850 He Was Appointed As Sistant State Attorney At ...
Age Of The Crusades
Age Of The Crusades. Except In Spain, Where The Kings Of Leon Had Gradually Reconquered A Fourth Part Of The Peninsula, Christian Europe Had Remained For Nearly Three Centuries On The Defensive Against Islam. In The Eleventh Century A New And Ruder People, The Seljuk Turks, Became Dominant In Mohammedan ...
Agriculture
Agriculture. Owing To The Northern Situation And Tho Very Limited Cultivable Area, As Well As The Primitive Methods Employed. Finland's Home Sup Ply Of Agricultural Products Falls Far Short Of The Demand. In 1896 The Number Of Land-holdings Was 117.704, Of Which 2694 Embraced Over 250 Acres Each, And 32,162 ...
Agriculture_2
Agriculture. The Equable Subtropical Cli Mate Of Florida Determines The Nature Of Its Products. Since The End Of The Civil War The Area Of Farm Land Has Constantly Increased, Amounting In 1900 To 12.6 Per Cent. Of The Land Area Of The State, Or 4,363,800 Acres, Of Which 34.6 Per ...
Alexander Join 1314 90 Ellis
El'lis, Alexander Join (1314-90). An English Philologist And Mathematician, Born At Hoxton, Middlesex, And Educated At Eton And Trinity College, Cambridge. Ile Was Born Under The Surname Sharpe, But Changed It To Ellis By Royal License In 1825. He Began The Study Of Law In The Middle Temple, But Gave ...
Alice Cunningham Fletcher
Fletch'er, Alice Cunningham ( 1845— ) . An American Ethnologist And Worker For The Bet Terment Of The American Indians. She Was Born In Boston, Mass. In 1892 She Was Awarded The Thaw Fellowship, In The Peabody Museum Of Harvard University, And As Vice-president Of The American Association For The ...
Amy 1844 1 Fay
Fay, Amy (1844-1. An American Pianist And Author. She Was Born At Bayou Goat, Miss., And Was A Pupil Of Tausig And Theodor Kullak In Berlin, And Of Liszt In Weimar. After Wards She Became Established In Chicago, As A Teacher Of And Lecturer On Music. Her Book. Music Study ...
Ancestry
Ancestry. The Medium In Which Fishes Live And The Hard And Almost Indestructible Nature Of Some Portions Of Their Skeleton, As Their Teeth, Spines. And Scales, Would Lead Us To Anticipate Their Frequent Occurrence In The Sedimentary Rocks: But Inasmuch As The Soft Parts Of The Animal Are Liable To ...
Andrew 1655 1710 Fletcher
Fletcher, Andrew ( 1655-1710 . A Scotch Patriot And Publicist. Lie Was Born In Saltoun, East Lothian. His Father, Sir Robert Fletcher, Dying When His Son Was Ten Years Of Age, Committed Him To The Care Of Gilbert Burnet, Who Superintended His Education For Five Years. In 1681 He Sat ...
Anti Compact Laws
Anti-compact Laws. It Is The Attempt Of The Underwriters' Associations To Regulate Rates And Thus Restrict Competition Which Has Attracted The Most Attention. The Popular Feeling Has Undoubtedly Been That The Rate Agreements En Tered Into By Nominally Competing Companies Through Underwriters' Associations Have Resulted In Keeping Premium Rates Illegitimately ...
Antonius Felix
Felix, Antonius. Roman Procurator Of Judea In The Time Of The Apostle Paul. He Was A Younger Brother Of Pallas, The Favorite Of The Emperor Claudius, And, Like His Brother, Evi Dently A Freedman Of Antonia, The Mother Of Claudius. Because Of This Fact, Perhaps, He Received The Honor, Unusual ...
Arcileology And
Arcileology And Art.—arch Itecture. It Is Through Archaeological Excavation That Nearly Everything Known About The Etruscans Has Been Discovered. More Is Known Of Etruscan Engineer Ing Than Of Architecture. The Cities Were Carefully Laid Out On A Quadrangular Plan, With Well Fortified Citadels And Walls; The Walls Were Strengthened By ...
Artificial Flowers
Flowers, Artificial. Copies Of Natural Flowers Made Of A Great Variety Of Materials, And Used For Both And Decorative Purposes. To The Former Class Belong The Collection Of Flowers In The Possession Of Harvard University, Which Are Made Wholly Of Glass, And Illustrate The Flora Of The United States. Flowers ...
Austin Flint
Flint, Austin. Jr. (1836—). An American Physician, Born At Northampton, Mass.; Son Of Austin Flint (q.v.). He Attended Medical Lec Tures At The University Of Louisville From 1854 To 1856. And In 1356 And 1357 At Jefferson Medi Cal College, Philadelphia. From 1857 To 1359 Lie Was Editor Of The ...
Baldomero 1792 1879 Espartero
Espartero, Baldomero (1792 1879). A Spanish General And Statesman. He Was Born February 27, 1792, At Granatula In La Man Cha, And Was Educated At The University Of Alma Gro. Upon The Outbreak Of The War Against Napo Leon Lie Joined The Patriot Forces And Fought Until 1814, Going The ...
Battle Of Lake Erie
Erie, Battle Of Lake. A Famous Naval En Gagement In The War Of 1812, Between Great Britain And The United States, Fought In Put In-bay, Near The Western End Of Lake Erie, On September 10, 1813. The American Fleet, Which Had Been Hastily Built At Presque Isle (now Erie), Pa., ...
Bayonet Fencing
Bayonet Fencing. The Bayonet Is A Weapon Made Entirely For The Thrust, Consequently It Is Most Effectually Used When In The Hands Of An Ex Perienced User Of The Rapier. Of All Forms Of Fenc Ing, That With The Bayonet Is Most Exclusively T'et Curiously Enough Is Only Within Quite ...
Benedict Joseph 1763 1850
Flaget, Benedict Joseph (1763 1850). A Bishop Of The Roman Catholic Church In America. He Was Born In Contournat, Auvergne, France, And Was Educated At The Col Lege Of Billom, And At The College Of The Sulpi Tians At Clermont, Becoming A Member Of That Order In 1783. Ile Was ...
Biological Extinction Due To
Biological Extinction Due To Competition. During All These Changes, As The Result Of The Struggle For Existence, The Competition Between The Outgoing Aid The Incoming Types And Floras And Faunas, There Resulted Vast Biological Changes, I.e. Extinctions And Re-creations. In Summing Up The Grand Results Of The Ap Palachian Revolution ...
Blow Fly Flesh Fly
Flesh-fly, Blow-fly, Or Meat-fly. Any Of Several Large, Noisy, Blue Or Green Flies Of The House-fly Type, Which Lay Their Eggs On Exposed Wounds, Meat, Or Carrion. A Very Con Spicuous One Is A Large 'blue-bottle' Fly (celli Phora Erythrocephala), Rather Dull In Color, With A Rust-red Forehead And Black ...
Book Ezekiel
Ezekiel, Book Or. The Third Of The So Called Greater Prophets. While The Prophecies Of Ezekiel Have Come Down To Us, As Concerns The Subject-matter, Substantially In The Form In Which The Prophet Himself Left Them (though Doubts Have Recently Been East On This Point) , The Hebrew Text Is ...
Book Of Enoch
Enoch, Book Of. The Statement. Gen. V. 24. That "enoch Walked With God." Etc.. Interpreted In Jewish Theology To Refer To His Translation, Made It Natural That In An Age Favorable To The Production Of Apocalyptic Literature, A Book Should Appear Claiming The Authority Of The Mysterious Enoch. The Book ...
Breeding Habits
Breeding Habits. Fishes That Lay Eggs Show No Parental Care, As A Rule, Either For Their Eggs Or Young. The Eggs Are Fastened To Rocks Or Weeds Or Other Objects, And The Eggs And Young Are Left To Shift For Themselves. In Many Marine Species The Eggs Are Extruded Into ...
Car Transfer Boats
Car-transfer Boats Are Used In Place Of Bridges To Convey Trains Of Ears Across Streams Or Other Bodies Of Water. In Many Instances, As In The Case Of The Vast Numbers Of Cars Transferred At New York City, The Trains Are Broken Up Into Short Sections, And Run Upon Flatboats. ...
Ceotody
Ceotody. Florida Is An Outgrowth Of The Southern Coastal Plain, And Is Of Recent Geological Formation. '['he Underlying Strata Are Mostly Limestones Deposited During The Dpper Eocene Age. In The Southern Part Of The Peninsula The Presence Of Fossil Coral Reefs Indicates That The Land Has Been Built Up By ...
Charles Fleetwood
Fleetwood, Charles ( ?-1692). An Eng Lish Parliamentary Soldier. He Was Studying At Gray's Inn At The Outbreak Of Hostilities Between Charles I. And The Parliamentary Forces, And Joined The Latter, Enrolling In 1642 As A Private Trooper In The Life-guard Of The Earl Of Essex, But Was Promoted Rapidly ...
Chordata
Chordata. Balanoglossus Has A Very Slightly Developed Excretory System. Two Ciliated Funnels Pass To The Exterior In The Region Of The Collar, But No Nephridia Are Known. The Proboscis Gland Has Been Thought Possibly To Have An Excretory Function, But Apparently It Does Not Open To The Exterior. In Tunicates ...
Church Of England
England, Church Of. The Dominant Re Ligious Body In England, For The Greater Part Of Her History The Established Church Of The Country. 11 Is Necessary To Bear In Mind The Prior Exist Ence Of A British Church, Which—like The British Nation—was Subsequently Either Uprooted, Sub Dued, Or Assimilated In ...
Churches And Palaces
Churches And Palaces. Although The Build Ings Of Old Florence Are Remarkable As Works Of Architecture, In Which Some Of Them, Indeed, Were Epoch Making, They Are No Less So By Reason Of Their Historic Associations, And Especially For The Works Of Painting And Sculpture Which They Contain. The Earliest ...
Classification
Classification. History Of /ehlhyology.— Among The Ancient Students Of Ichthyology, That Branch Of Natural History Which Treats Of Fishes, The First To Be Mentioned, As Usual, Is Aristotle. In Modern Times Ichthyology Began To Be Culti Vated About The Middle Of The Sixteenth Century By Behan, Rondelet, And Salviani. Their ...
Classification Of Public Expenditures
Classification Of Public Expenditures. Formerly Economists Classified Public Expendi Tures As Necessary And Roluntary. This Classifica Tion, Based Upon A Definite Theory Of The Functions Of The State—a Subject Beyond The Province Of Finance—obviously Fails To Meet The Requirements Of Modern Financial Theory. A Fairly Satisfactory Classification Is That Of ...
Climate
Climate. Europe Is The Only Continent That Lies Entirely Outside Of The Tropical Zone, And Only A Small Part Of It Is Included In The Frigid Zone. The Ameliorating Influences Of The North Atlantic And The Westerly Winds That Over It Are Felt Far East Along The Shores Of The ...
Close Of The Middle
Close Of The Middle Ages. Intellectually And Spiritually, The Closing Centuries Of The Middle Ages Represented Ferment And Growth. Renewed Acquaintance With The Literature Of The Ancient World (see Humanisii) Widened The Narrow Hori Zon Of Mediawal Thought. The Invention Of Printing Immensely Accelerated The Diffusion Of New Ideas. The ...
Cod Fishery
Cod Fishery. One Of The World's Greatest Fisheries Is That Relating To The Several Species Of The Cod Family (gadid:e). These Are V0111111011 In The Northern Regions Of Both Oceans. The More Important Species Are The Common End, Haddock, Pollack, And Hake. The Countries Principally En Gaged In The Cod ...
Coinsurance
Coinsurance. .k Large Proportion Of Fires Re Sult In Only Partial Losses To Insured Property. In The Absence Of Any Stipulation To The Con Trary, A Partial Loss Must He Paid In Full, Pro Vided It Does Not Exceed The Amount Of The Insur Ance. There Sic Two Unfortunate Results ...
Color
Color Pp.e•erence. Different Animals Have A Marked Preference For Certain Colors Of The Spec Trii Ill, In Which They Seem To Feel Better. The Little Crustacean Daphnia ].refers To Swim In Orange, Yellow. And Especially In Green Light. The Starfish Slums The Red Rays. Love Light, Such As Bees, Prefer ...
Colors
Colors. The Colors Of Flowers Are Primarily Due To Nutrition. The Parti-colored Spots And Streaks Leading Down Into The Bottoms Of Flowers, Called 'guides' And 'pathfinders.' Invariably Lead To The Nectaries. And These Effects Seem Directly Due To The Visits Of Insects. "the Guides," Says Henslow, "like Obstructing Tangles Of ...
Com Pa Ra T1
Femur, Com Pa Ra T1 Ve Anatomy Or. Al. Though Certain Conipa Rati Ye Anatomists Have At Tempted To Find In The Mint Opterygium Of The Fin Of A Fish A Homologue Of The Femur, It Is Beyond Question That Such A Bone Is Not Actually Found Below The More ...
Commerce And Transportation
Commerce And Transportation. Respecting Commerce Finland Has Been Practically Inde Pendent Of Russia. The Finnish Manufacturer Gets His Material Much Cheaper Than The Russian, Hence Has Been Able To Compete With The Latter Even In The Russian Market. The Great Difference Between The Prices On Certain Manufactures In Finland And ...
Commercial Uses
Commercial Uses. Since The Introduction Of The Steel Pen And The Disappearance Of The Quill From Correspondence, The Chief Eonuner•ial Use Of Feathers Other Than Adornment Has Been The Stuf Fing Of Beds, Cushions, And Quilts. The Introduc Tion Of The Quill Toothpick Followed As A Result Of The Abandonment ...
Companies
Companies. The Relation Of A Person Insured In A Mutual Company To The Company Is By No Means So Simple As In The Previous Ease. In The Simplest Form Of Mutual Insurance The Funds Necessary To Pay Losses Are Raised By As Sessment After The Losses Have Occurred. Under Such ...
Comparative Anatomy Of The
Eye, Comparative Anatomy Of The. How Far Down In The Scale It Is Necessary To Go To Fine., Animals Which Have No Eyes Depends Upon Wheth Er We Mean By 'eye' An Organ Capable Of Form Ing Optical Images, Or Simply An Organ Capable Of Responding To The Stimulus Of ...
Coniparison Of National Expenditures
Coniparison Of National Expenditures. A Comparison Of The Budgets Of Leading Nations To Show The Place Occupied In Each Of The Several Classes Of Expenditure Is An Inquiry Which Tempts The Student, But Which Is Confronted With Well Nigh Insurmountable Difficulties. The Most Serious Is The Fact That While Data ...
Cooh Ch
Ch,cooh = + Ethyl Acetic Acid Ethyl Acetic Water Alcohol Ester The Reaction Evidently Involves The Simultane Ous Formation Of Water And Of Ethyl Acetic Ester. On The Other Hand, It Was Also Stated Above That Water Decomposes Ethyl Acetic Ester Into Its Com Ponents. Therefore, Even While The Ester ...
Cooperative Evidences Of Evolution
Cooperative Evidences Of Evolution. That The General Theory Of Evolution Represents The Truth Of History And Existing Facts Is Supported By Evidence From All Departments Of Biology. The Basis Of Morphology Is Anatomy And Embryology. As Soon As Anatomists Studied The Mode Of De Velopment Of Organs And Traced Their ...
Council Of Ferrara Florence
Ferrara-florence, Council Of. The Council Of Basel, Convened In 1431 By Pope Mar Tin V., Having Fallen Into A Series Of Disputes With Martin's Successor, Eugenius Iv., The Lat Ter In 1437 Issued A Bull Transferring The Ses Sions To Ferrara. He Was Obeyed Only By Car Dinal Julian, The ...
Creek Civilization
Creek Civilization. Before The Conquest Of Greece By The Romans (11.c. I -ill) The Creeks Had Developed Every Form Of Government Which Eu Rope Has Since Known. Their Little City States Passed From Patriarchal Kingship To Aristocracy And From Aristocracy Through Tyranny To Democ Racy. In The Struggle Of Their ...
Cultivation
Cultivation. Flax Will Grow In Almost Any Part Of The United States, But It Needs A Strong, Rich Soil And Careful Manipulation At Every Stage Of Its Production And Manufacture. The Heavier Soils, When Well Drained And Of Proper Fertility, Are Preferable To Sandy Loams; Wet Soils Will Be Fatal ...
David Dudley 1805 94 Field
Field, David Dudley (1805-94). An Emi Nent American Lawyer; Son Of David Dudley Field (q.v.), A Congregational Clergyman. He Was Born At Haddam, Conn., Graduated At Wil Liams College In 1825, Studied Law First In Albany. N. Y., And Afterwards In New York City. And Was Admitted To The Bar ...
De La
De La Ai( ( 1651- 1715 ) . A Distinguished French Author And Prelate. 11 E Was Born August 6, 1651, In The Chritean Pone Low, Prov Nice Of Perigord, In The Present Department Of Dordogne. Ile Was The Descendant Of A Family Which Has Given Many Celebrities Both To ...
Destaples
D'estaples, Lat. Jacobus Stapulens1s ( C. 1450 C.1536). A French Roman Catholic, One Of The First Scholars And Exegefes Of His Time. Ile Was Born At Estaples (etaples), Near Boulogne, About 1450. He Studied At The University Of Paris, And Became Professor In The College Of Cardinal Le Moine. He ...
Development Of A Dicotyledonous
Development Of A Dicotyledonous Plant. The Fertilized Egg Lies Deeply Imbedded In The Ovary In A Sac—the Embryo-sae—filled With Nu Tritive Fluid. The Fertilized Egg. Or Otlspore, De Velops By Means Of A Series Of Transverse And Longitudinal Cleavages Into A More Or Less Ovoidal Body—the Embryo. Certain Of The ...
Difficulty Of Measurement
Difficulty Of' Measurement. Precise Figures Cannot Be Given, As The Records Of The Ports Of Departure As Well As Those Of Arrival Are Not Always To Be Had. From A Statistical Standpoint There Are Many Obstacles To A Perfectly Accurate Record, The Chief Being That Of Double Counting. Emigrants Return ...
Diseases Of The Eye
Eye, Diseases Of The. The Diseases Of The Eye Enumerated By The Surgeon Are Very Nuttier Owi»g To The Variety Of The Tissues And Parts Of Which The Eye Is Formed. Nearly All Its Parts Are Liable To Inflammation And Its Consequences. (see Oplithalmia: Retinitis.) The Eyelids Are Liable To ...
Diversity Of Flowers
Diversity Of Flowers. In The Most Primi Tive Flowers The Parts Have A Spiral Arrange Ment. For Example. The Sepals, Petals, And Stamens Are Not In Definite Rosettes Or Cycles, But Appear At Different Levels And May Be In Definitely Repeated. In This Case There Is No Such Thing As ...
Doctrine Of The Fall
Fall, Doctrine Of The. The Explanation Of The Universal Prevalence Of Sin Among Men By Tne Supposition Of The Sin Of The First Parents Of The Race, Resulting In A Transmitted Disorder Of Nature. The Doctrine Was Introduced Into Theol Ogy By The•apostle Paul (rom. V. 12 Sqq.) From The ...
Dog Breaking
Dog-breaking. The Field Dog Is A Hunter By Nature, But Before Requiring Him To Exercise His Faenities To Scent And Locate Game, And Yet Re Frain From Catching It, He Must Be Specially Trained. This Training Begins With Yard-break Ing, In Which The Puppy Is Taught To Remain Quiet In ...
Domenico 1543 1607 Fontana
Fontana, Domenico ( 1543-1607 ) . An Italian Engineer And Architect, Born In 1543 At Mili. In The Vicinity Of Lake Como. At An Early Age He Came To Rome, And Soon Attracted The Notice Of Cardinal Montalto, Who Appointed Him His Private Architect. And Intrusted To Him The Building ...
Dressing
Dressing. The Process First Gone Through After Pulling Is Rippling, Which Consists In Tearing Off The Seeds By Pulling The Stalks Through A Flax Comb, Which Consists Of A Series Of Iron Teeth Is Inches Long, Placed Within A Distance Of Half An Inch Of Each Other. These Are Fastened ...
Dubuc Debt
Dubuc Debt. A Third Division Of The Subject Of Finance Concerns Public Credit And Its Use. As The Creation Of Public Debt Often Required By The Exigencies Of National Life Rests Upon The Public Credit, A Complete Theory Of Finance Must Comers Itself With The Means By Which Public Credit ...
Earliest Population
Earliest Population. Of The Peoples That Have Inhabited Europe Since The Dawn Of His Tory, Some — And These The Most Important, Greeks, Italians, Celts, Germans, And Slays—ex Hibit Striking Resemblances In Language And In Their Early Religion And Customs. Other Peoples, Like The Iberians, Who Inhabited What, Is Now ...
Eastern Affairs 1856 98
Eastern Affairs ( 1856-98). The Integrity Of The Turkish Empire, Guaranteed By All The Powers In 1856, Has Since Been Seriously Impaired. In 1859 Moldavia And Wallachia Elected The Same 'hospedar' Or Governor: In 1866 They Were United Under Prince Charles Of Hohenzollern Into A Practically Independent State. In 187], ...
Eatna
Eat:na. The Whole Of Europe Belongs To The Palearctic Region Of Wallace. But Is Divided Into Two Subregions, That Of Northern Europe North Of The Pyrenees, Alps, And Balkans, And That Of The Mediterranean South Of These Moun Tains. The Richness Of The Fauna Of Central And Northern Europe Is ...
Ecclesiastical Establishments
Establishments, Ecclesiastical. Those Religious Bodies Which, In Various Countries, Oc Cupy A Privileged Position As Representing The Official Religion Of The State Or Of Its Head. The Origin Of Such A Connection Usually Dates Back To A Period When The Inhabitants Of The Country Were Practically Unanimous In Their Religious ...
Education
Education. Education In Florida Is In An Unsatisfactory State. The Average Length Of The School Year Generally Falls Under 100 Days, Which Is True Of But Few Other States. The Average Expenditure Per Capita Of Population Is Only One Half That For The United States As A Whole, And Less ...
Edward 1794 1865 Everett
Everett, Edward ( 1794-1865 ) . An Ameri Can Statesman, Orator, And Scholar. He Was Born At Dorchester, Mass., April 11, 1794; Was At One Time A Pupil In A Boston School Of Which Daniel Webster, In The Absence Of His Brother Ezekiel, Was The Teacher; Graduated At Harvard In ...
Effects
Effects. ()i• Flonvi:iis In Ng I Nsects. Coining Now To Consider The Mutual Relations And Dependence Of Insects And Flowers, We Will First Take Up The Subject Of The Adaptation Of Insects To Teething On The Pollen Or Nectar Of Flowers. .1 Few Insects, Sonic And Certain Caterpillars, May Devour ...
Effects Of Changes In
Effects Of Changes In Tiie Cosmical Envi Ronment Of Tile Genesis Of Life-forms. When The Earth Was Cooling Down From A Gaseous To A Solid Condition, It Is Most Probable That The Changes In The Cosmical Environment Had An Im Mediate And Creative Or Modifying Effect On The Beginnings Of ...
Effects Of Changes In_2
Effects Of Changes In The Chemical Na Ture Of The 'i\ Ledium. Every One Is Aware How Rapidly Most Sea Animals, All Except The Migra Tory Fishes, Such As Salmon, Die When Placed In Fresh Water. The Effect Of Living By The Sea On Land Plants Is To Thicken Their ...
Effects Of Changes Of
Effects Of Changes Of Ligiit. Light Comes From The Sun. Without Sunlight There Would Be No Life. Were It Not For The Stimulus Of The Sun's Rays, Animals Would He Eyeless; And It Is The Absence Of Light Which Bleaches Animals Liv Ing In Darkness, Preventing The Formation And Development ...
Effects Of Changes Of
Effects Of Changes Of Temperature. If A Life In Total Darkness Causes Great Variation And The Origin Of New Forms Adapted To Strange Eon -ditions, So Also Great Ehanges In Temperature, As Shown In And By Laboratory Experiments, Afford The Strongest Circumstantial Evidence Of The Origin Of New Species By ...
Effects Of Darkness
Effects Of Darkness. On The Other Hand, The Absence Of Light, Or A Life In Perpetual Darkness, Has Gravely Modified The Visual Organs Of Cave Animals And Those Living In The Abysses Of The Sea. (see Cave Animals.) In The Case Of The Blind Beetles, Crawfish, Spiders, Myriapods, Etc., Of ...
Eitroie In 1900
Eitroi'e In 1900. The Population Of Europe At The Close Of The Nineteenth Century Was About 390,000,000, And During The Later Decades Of The Century The Average Annual Increase, In Spite Of Emigration, Was About 3,000,000. The Peoples Of Modern Europe Are For The Most Part Of Mixed Origin; But ...
Elliotson
El'liotson, Jolt (17'11 Isg'si. An Eng Lish Physician, Born In London And Educated At Edinburgh And Cambridge. In 1829 He Delivered Before The Royal College Of Physicians His Valu Able Lumley Lectures On Diseases Of The Heart (published In 1830), And In 1831 He Was Called To The Chair Of ...
Ellipse
Ellipse (lat. Ellipsis, From Gk. Mettptc, Elleipsis, Omission, From Areizeiv, Elleipein, To Omit, From Iv, En, In + Leipein, To Leave). An Important Geometric Figure, Repre Senting The Approximate Shape Of The Planetary Orbits. It Is One Of The Conic Sections (q.v.) And Received Its Name From Apollonius (q.v.). It ...
Ellipsis
Ellip'sis I Lat., From Ci:. .i22r/e4c, Ellei 11 • 11'1111 In Grammar And To Signify The Omission Of A Sword 11001'9 .11 Ry ("qpre,tion Senleitcr In Its Usual Form. The Ohjcrt Of Ellipsis Is Brevity And Ellip'soid Ifrow (a:. 172 1 Olar. Ifb)4. (?.r111). .\ 1:1i1(1 Of Bounded By A ...
Ellora
Ello'ra. A Ruined Town In The Dominions Of The Nizam. Not Far From The City Of Dowlata Bad, In Latitude 20° 2' N. And Longitude 75° 13' E. It Is Celebrated For Its Wonderful Rock-cut Temples, Of Which There Are Nineteen Large Ones, Partly Of Hindu And Partly Of Buddhist ...
Elm Insects
Elm-insects. The 14111 Seems Husceplille To The Attacks Of Foliage-eating In- "lost Of These, However, Are Foreign Cies, Which Have Been Accidentally Imported And Acclimated, And Which Are Likely To Attack The European In Preference To Ameriean Species. Hence It Has Heel: Reim-iniended That A Few Pean Elms He It:eluded ...
Elmira
Elmi'ra. A City And County-seat Of Che Mung County, N. Y., 100 Miles Southeast Of Rochester, On The Cheinung River, And On The Erie, The Lackawanna, The Northern Central ( Pennsylvania System), And The Lehigh Valley Railroads (map: New York, D 3). It Has The New York State Reformatory, A ...
Elocution
Elocution (lat. Elocutio, From Eloqui, To Speak Oat, From E, Out Loqui, To Speak). The Art Of Effective Speaking, More Especially Of Pub Lic Speaking. It Regards Solely The Utterance Or Delivery; While The Wider Art Of Oratory, Of Which Elocution Is A Branch, Takes Account Also Of The Matter ...
Elwood
El'wood. A City In Madison County, Ltd., 45 Miles North By East Of Indianapolis; On The Lake Erie And Western, And The Pittsburg, Cin Cinnati, Chicago And Saint Louis Railroads (map: Indiana, D 2). It Is In The'natural-gas Belt, Car Ries On A Considerable Trade In Live Stock, Grain, And ...
Elymas
El'ymas (lat., From Gk. 'ex6pac) . A Jew Ish Sorcerer And Prophet, Who, According To Acts Xiii. 6-12, Opposed Paul Before The Proconsul Sergius Paulus At Paphos In Cyprus, And Was Smitten With Temporary Blindness. There Are Two Difficulties Connected With His Personality, One Concerning His Name, The Other His ...
Emancipation
Emancipation (lat. Emaneipatio, From Cmancipare, To Manumit, From E, Out + 111(17lci, Pare, To Deliver Over, From Matins, Hand + Capere, To Take). In Roman Law, The Liberation Of A Per. Son Front Paternal Authority (patria Potestas) By The Act Of The Paterfamilias. Paternal Au Thority Over A Son Was ...
Embalming
Embalming (from Gk. 11142cayor, Balsa Mom Balm). The Art Of Preserving Bodies After Death. The Art Was Carried To Great Per Fection By The Ancient. Egyptians, Who Regarded The Preservation Of The Dead As A Religious Duty. Not Only Human Beings, But Also Eats, Ibises, Ichneumons, And Other Sacred Animals ...
Embankments
Embankments. In Engineering. Masses Of Earth, Rock, Or Other Materials Artificially Formed And Rising Above The Natural Surface Of The Ground. They Are Built Chiefly Either To Carry Railways, Common Roads, Canals, Etc., Over Depressions Or For Hydraulic Purposes, Such As The Formation Of Dams And Reservoirs, Or For De ...