solid information is not within their sphere; and much of their

of which a third edition appeared in 1821. A collection

decided to resist; a mutiny occurred in one regiment and the

the abundance of pasture and forage, sheep and cattle-rearing

scholars of his time in all matters pertaining to the Arabic

ALESSANDRIA, a city and episcopal see of Piedmont, Italy,

cavil that oxygen was not essential to acidic properties.

titanic acid and water of combination. The American bauxites

period. From the skullforms studied, it would appear, as we

he undertook the editorship of the third edition of Kitto's

marquess of Hastings, who was governor-general of India during

of boric acid and borax, to be used in proportions not

Mahomet. He was born at Mecca in the year A.D. 573, a

time in a wire is proportional to the square of the strength

See The Three Brothers, or Travels of Sir Anthony, Sir

appears, of AEthelweard, that he planned the two series

be freed from the ice-sheet at the end of the glacial period.

and Earth Reconciled, The Devil's Banquet and other

and the two Geoffroy Saint-Hilaires. In France there were

own style lucid and decisive. In social and political

works of his predecessors, and so ultimately on the work of

of the amateur is not perhaps so pronounced or so universal

strikes nearly west to the Persian frontier, and joins it on

1900. On the 11th of July 1897 Salomon Andree, with two

Speusippus infected with Pythagoreanism, was the most faithful

later, incited a poor monk to attempt to put the theory into

Saint-Petersbourg, Imperatorskaya Akademiya nauk, was projected

the fourth, enlarged tooth of the under jaw received, not

language and character were well known. It is probable

characteristics, has never been in doubt, since its remains

manager of a malt-house, largely because of his incessant

Pre-contact material is such as continued to exist in any

the son of Louis VIII., king of France, and brother of St

The accounts of him in the books of Kings and Chronicles are

appear united in a res Publica Aequiculorum, which was a

from his suite to the church where Marshal Prim's body lay

the celebrated Aldine editions of the classics of that time. (See

holdings with those of Great Britain. Great Britain, it

AMICUS CURIAE (Lat. for "a friend of the court"), a term used

Britain. On arriving in the Peiho he was given to understand

electric contact with an insulated disc in the head of the

by the collections made by Pallas, Gmelin, Guldenstadt

Cunningham, Growth of English Industry and Commerce.

legislature has brought these waters within the jurisdiction

be suddenly swollen by rains, and floods and landslips often

few years later, during the War for Independence, this region

built Tiryns, but later, under Perseus, Mycenae took the

movements of recent glaciers, Agassiz was prepared for a

there were 73 firms of practising accountants recorded.

richest region, and from Babylon went on to seize the fabulous

cylinders. The water thus aerated or carbonated passes

the 6th moon. Each year has multiplied the produce of the
78,407. Amiens was once a place of great strength, and still

decomposition was complete. About 100 lb of bronze, containing

banks of the river, and so Della Valle (i. 671).

prince has been identified as the Infante Alphonso who died in

and an optical system so corrected is termed achromatic.

Shiites, the former denying, and the latter affirming, his

``the delimitation of it would be superfluous.'' Though

in the Ionic alphabet was represented by the same symbol as

acre contains 6150.4 sq. yds.; the Irish acre 7840 sq. yds.; in

architecture is Moorish in style. The principal entrance,

the first provincial factories and consulates of the British

removing anything; a term used technically in geology of the wearing

act of aesthetic contemplation. This distinction strengthens

later MSS. (13th to 15th century), and numerous copies of the

system, situated between the aperture stop and the object

are terra-cotta tiles, pottery, rugs, refrigerators and

and an optical system so corrected is termed achromatic.

easy, and a great part of it might be entrusted to a mere

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most cases, of audits conducted by skilled accountants has

natural history and antiquities. The Royal Institute of the

under the influence of Luther abandoned his Aristotelian

married a number of his generals to Oriental princesses, and

societies are the Felix Meritis (1776), and the Arti et

them. In the case of the Alps it seems natural enough that

the year 350, records that in Egypt the laity, as a rule,

Whittier: Holmes: Lowell.

strengthened and improved. In the rebellion of 1857 the

summoned again to Rome in 1579 to quell the first of the many