removable.

The gun-cotton is detonated by a powerful exploder,

of the posterior part of the gullet, and the spiral valve, is

and of tapestries and laces were brought together; and the

districts, too, records of the coldest month (February) show

ABNER (Hebrew for ``father of [or is a light''), in

by Alberic of Besancon (or more properly Briancon), was,

History of the Papacy (London, 1897) is very learned and

to the continuous variation of a function. Reference to a

conditions of the tenure of the Roman public land in Africa

his death on the 6th of January 664. In a pathetic speech

were inspired by zoic activities; its location, scenery and

by a deep-cut valley, though often it would be shorter to

He was the first to arrange a complete liturgy for the

except fragments of wall and of a great stone cistern on the

published, and signed by all the arbitrators except Sir A.

observances; others were on special sciences. Thus we have

Kerber's method, and have deduced the Seidel formulae from

Augustus. It more than once passed out of the power of the

Leon. The marriage of Alphonso and Urraca was declared null

bar. From an early age he developed the habit of writing

utility, for although they are fairly strong, they lack power

cavalry raids of the Confederates under J. H. Morgan and

by its lack of odour, a stringent taste and dark colour.

Premonstratensians.

succumbed to Parthian and nomadic movements about 126 B.C.

the measurement of very small alternating currents. One useful

worked from very ancient times, and their capacity is not

more to the Mediterranean world than to the African. All the

to the conditions required by the Merchant Shipping Act 1894.

are shortly described in Romische Mitteilungen (1903), 147

expands the tube against the walls of its chamber, while

ABSORPTION OF LIGHT. The term ``absorption'' (from Lat.

England was the court of the deputy or lieutenant of the

the son of a Scottish manufacturer. He went into business in

In the highlands of Kabul edible rhubarb is an important local

side, in which the whole twenty-four seem to have perished

of laedo). In historical times, when the stress in Latin

by himself for a nickname Bajolardus given to him when a

Society (January to June 1902) on ``O antigo Imperialismo

royal academies of science at Naples, Lucca and Palermo.

der Asthetik, and O. Kulpe, ``Uber den associativ

or with a greater sense of duty to the task of ruling.

Cockayne, in the Shrine, v.s. Psalter: Thorpe (Clar.

number of circumstances which will be considered below.

Next in importance come Hissarlik, Mycenae, Phaestus,

is derived from the Abyssinian tributaries (see NILE.)

the occasion by over-confidence and incompetence. De Kalb

or acts of the martyrs celebrated on that day; announcing

sheep as one hundred acres thereof would before have done.''

the manufactures of Alton are iron and glass ware, miners'

interests, vital to either party, which depended on the mighty

Ugie, 20 m., and the Deveron, 62 m., partly on the boundary of

heavy guns (above 6 in.) is made up in separate cartridges

among the powerful aristocratic houses may be mentioned the

an equal vote should be cast for Adams and Thomas Pinckney,

few external means of testing this portion of the narrative

Botanic Gardens, Kew, were transferred to the board. The

total production, say of wheat, in each county by the number

reputation the numbers of Rievaulx were greatly increased.

the Langman, the Portland, the Scottish, Irish and Welsh

gelatine, which have for object the giving of an appearance

The aldehydes may be prepared by the careful oxidation of

young, was born at Hallowell, Maine, on the 14th of November

in church and state. In the following year he was made master

Letters, in which she finally accepted the part of resignation

their original state by forcing a reverse current through the

up. She has, however, by Art. 14 of her Merchant Shipping Code,

although we now know that millions of tons of it exist,

1817; M'Leod's Narrative of a Voyage in H.M.S. "Alceste,"

cargo; or when an extraordinary expense has been incurred or a

fortnight, and Alarcon's name became famous throughout the

of Moore and Robert Craufurd at Nivelle, Nive, Orthez and

all, even up to the second order of the ratio of the earth's

metallic vanes so thin that the exposed and averted faces

Daras to hold Nisibis in check. The Balkan provinces were

splendour. Few great towns in Italy were without their

and Kumans in Thrace, with whom the Manichaean sects of the

measures of length. Another steel containing 45% of nickel

B.V.M. The Blessed Virgin Mary.

together. With the rise of the ammonia-soda process, for

not bring an appeal unless she had made prompt hue and cry.

quantities and the ``irreducible case'' were subsequently

M`G. de Slane's transl. of Ibn Khallikan, i. 44 ff.; Macdonald,

Hesse (Ann., 1834, 7, p. 267), Alder Wright and A. B, Luff

preface by Dr John Fell (2 vols., 1684); Sufferings of the