The New Encyclopaedia Britannica (11th Edition) Is the Work of Recognized Authorities in Every Department of Knowledge and in all Civilized Countries the IN PUBLISHING THE PRESSA UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE I The following table indicates some of the categories from which A REVOLUTION ENGLAND 1,500 contributors have been selected: The Use of India (or Bible) Paper Reduces the Bulky edition Staff" (Past or Present) of 81 Uni¬ Presidents and Secretaries of Other Volume of Previous Editions to a Slender is issuing the new (11th) simultaneously in the versities in Learned Societies. .53 States, Canada, India, Australia and Africa 21 Countries. .399 Flexible Volume Only One Inch Thick. United England, Staff* (Past or Present) of 6,5 Other Staff of the British Museum. 47 radical from the traditions of 140 years From whatever of view it be regarded, the Colleges . 10.5 Other National Collections This departure point Encyclo¬ Chancellors. Presidents, Staff' of has been justified. The public has quickly set the stamp of its Britannica recommends itself as the of a Principals, and Libraries. 54 The volumes paedia proper charge c\c. of Universities and Colleges. .54 approval upon the India paper formst ponderous university. To those who consider its production, the Encyclo¬ Fellows of the Royal Society. 168 Staff" of Observatories, Laboratories, whicli have always been associated with the idea of an encyclo¬ Fellows o^ the British .57 and Survevs.t. 47 ha\e been by volumes so light that one of them paedia Britannica is the most comprehensive exhibition of tine Academy. pedia replaced hand. When the book Professions or Occupations can be held comfortably in the open scholarship. To those who consider its use. the Encyclopaedia By 327 lies flat. '1 lie paper, although so light, is opaque, and stronger Ministers. and Government Historians and Archaeologists. It an ideal is, as a work of reference, an indispensable resource, Diplomats, and Economists. 72 than the ordinary book paper heretofore used. gives Britannica Officials. I2ii Sociologists The entire set of 29 volumes weighs about 80 a* a universal information, a medium of and 64 printing surface. and, librarv of powerful 161 Geographers Explorers. a about 240 in the Theologians. and 107 pounds, as compared with weight of pounds for all the As a Lawyers. 75 Biologists Agriculturists. edition. The Britannica, more instruction English-speaking peoples. product and 7-5 Mathematicians, Physicists and ordinary paper Encyclopaedia nf the scientific spirit at work in every department of knowledge Physicians Surgeons. Chemists. 93 comprehensive and better arranged than ever, in the new format Engineers and Architects. 73 becomes times more valuable to its owner, because it can the book comes with into the keeping of the Men and Manufacturers.... 62 Geologists, Astronomers and Meteor¬ many especial propriety Business 6.5 | be read steadily and systematically without fatigue. University of Cambridge. Naval and Military Officers. 79 ologists HISTORY. BOTANY. ZOOLOGY. 'THEOLOGY. BIBLICAL CRITI¬ FINE ARTS AND MUSIC. Dr list of 2Q3 out of I,SOO : INDUSTRIES. AGRICULTURE. Dr. Gairdner, C B . Rer.dle. The follóning contributors^ Robert Wallace. THE CHURCHES. Sir Sidney Colvin, cf Pnblit Records, Keeper, Department of B tasty, British will the absence Professor CISM, Keeper of Pnnts and Drawings, British Lrti Assistant Keeper Museum. to the new Eleventh Edition suggest of\ Professor of Agriculture. Edinburgh. Th« Re- Dr Dr:-,er, Museum London. fir Boverton Redwood. Professor of Hebrew, Oxford, Professor Bury. Professor Blackman. national bias that has marked the choice of writers for a\ Regius Professor G. Baldwin Brown, P-ofessor of Botany, Leeds. Adviser on Petroleum to the Admiralty. Canon Cheyne, Fine Regitz Professor of Modem History, that aims to and survey Mame Once, etc cf HeH\ Professor of Arts. Edinburgh. Cambridge. Sir Edwin Ray Lankester. fpâfk gire afresh comprehensive Late Professor cf Interpretation Mr. R. Phené Spier«, Director. Katural History Mu¬ the countries Professor Barker, Scripture, O tfotrd. Master of the Architectural Professor Oman. Formerly if human knowledge, represented being Professor of Textile Industries, Bradford. Dr. Formerly Chichete Professor of Modem History, seum Sanday, School, Royal Academy. Oxford Dr. Chalmers Mitchell. England, the United States, Canada, France, Germany, Mr W. Burton. Professor of Divinity, Oxford. Mr. W R Lethaby. Secretary Zoological Society. Chaùrmau of the Joint Committee of Pot- Professor Burkitt. of the Central School of Arts Professor Pollard. Italy, Japan; the list will, it is hoped, further fry Manufacturers. Principal cf Engbsh History, Un-versity Professor I. B. Balfour, Holland. Dii-m: Cambridge. P-cfessor ' Professor of and Crafts. of néon. P-ofessor of Botany, Unkersity of Earn* show that the traditional position of the Encyclopaedia Professor Sydney Chapman, The Rev. Dr. Estlin Carpenter, Mr M H. Spielr,.inn, Dean of the Faculty of Commerce, Man¬ Manchester College. Oxford. o( Art!' Dr. Bémont. burgh. as the work of writers of unquestioned emi¬ chester. Principal of Late Editor "Magazine D'reetor Adjoint, à l'Ecole Pra'ique des Frofessor Kerr, Britannica The Rev. Dr. Gray. Mr. Laurence Binyon. Etudes, Paris. Professor of Zoology, Glasgow. has been maintained in this Edition. Pr Schidro'A it.», I Professor of Old Téstame»' Exegosis, of prints and Drawings. Hautes nence and authority }'-mb'r ef Council cf 'he institute of Oxford. Assistant Keeper Right-Hon. Jame« Bryce. Professor Carpenter, Mr. E. V. Luc.-. Mousneld College. Brit'sh Museum. Author of "The Professor of Royal Colleté of. PHYSICS. Bret.c Professor Toy, Mr. C. Holmes. British Ambassador. " Zoology, MATHEMATICS. Author of 'Life of Charles Lamb." Professor George Lunge. Hébreu: a"d Other J American Commonwealth Science. Dublin. Professor Emeritus cf Director of the S'attonal Portrait Gallery. Thomas. ASTRONOMY. Sir Robert K. Douglas. Emeritus Professor of Techmca1 Chens* Oriental Languages. Harvard University. London. Professor Antoine Professor Osborn, 5T<J Rayleifr istry, Swiss Technical Co'lege, Zurich. E Frame. Professor of Mediaeval French Literature, Director of American Museum of Natnral Late of Oriental Printed Becks Professor J ' Professor J. C Van Dyke, York. .. Kfper Paris. ¦- Knecht, « University of History, Hew l Cambridge and MSS.. British Museum Professor Edmond Professer of Biblical Theology Professor of the History of Art, Rutgers Frofess"'- of Technology ü Chemistry, Theological Seminary, Hew \ Ofk. Professor Adams. Mr. Richard Lydekker, 5-- J J Tiaotnsoti, Hon Viscount of College. Yale. on Staff of the Geological Sur- f Physics, Cambridge. Th* PJght Morley University of Manchester. Professor J. H. Ropes, Mr. E. J. Den». Professor of History, Formerly Blackburn, Dr. L H. Bailcv. of Sew Testament Exegesis, Mgr. Duehesne, vey of India. " Professor Late Fellow of College, Cambridge. S Je*enb Larmor. Late Secretary ni State for 'India. Chan¬ Director of the College of Agriculture, Harvard University. King's Director of the French College at Rome. Profe«sor Walter Garstang, -'vatirs. Cambridge. cellor the Manchester. Dr. Hadow, Professor of Leeds. of University of Corn University. The Rev. Wlliam Hunt. Principal of Armstrong College, Uniier~ Professor Keutgen. of Zoology. University ¡orge Darwin, Dr. Alfred J. Butler. Professor Hummel, President of the Royal Historical Society. Durham. Professor of H'Story, Unnersity of Ham¬ Sir William Henry Flower. Astronomy, Cambriez*. Late Professor of Dyeing, University of sity of burg. Formerly Director of the British Museum Felloiï and Bursar of Prasen^se Cal tgé Leeds Cardina! Gibbon-, Miss Kathleen Schlesinger. Natural History. aw Calendar, Oxford, Fellow of Eton College. Archbishop of Boltim we Author "The Instruments of the Or¬ J. H Round. LL. D.. of lea Professor Fream, of Author of Feudal England," etc. Profe«sor A. G. Tansley, .Physics Lea Dr. Hern- Austin Dobson, Ento¬ Rt R»v. E. Cnthbert Butler, O.S.B.. chestra." Lecturer in University Formerly Lecturer OU Agricultural Abbot of Don aside Mr Donald Francis Tovey. Professor Ludwig Von Pastor. University Botany, Sir DaMd Gill. Author of "Eighteenth Century ¡''¿nettes," mology. University of Edinburgh. F cf Hustory, University of Inns- of Cambridge. .-jr«'r',í,mfr, Ccfr ./ "JVC.Ham etc. Dr. Wilhelm BottStet, Author of "Essays in Musical Analysis." ofcssor Profe«or XJ fVa*. Hogarth." Mr. George F. Zimmer. of Hew Testament Exegesis, Henri Frantz. brueck. Vines, Sir C. Author of ''Mechanical Handling of Ma¬ Professor Holland Rose, Sherardian Professor of Botany, Urizcr- Richard Jebb. University of Goettingen. Art Critic of the "Gazette des Beaux Professor J. sit Dt 5im >n Ncwr^mb, terial." on Umvcsity of Cam¬ y of Oxford. f Professor of Gree1:. University Braun. , Arts," Pans. Lecturer H'story, t Mathematics. V S. ^-..^./j, T. \V. Fox, Father SJ Sir William T. TY.^elton-D-.e-, Professe of cf Cambridge. Profejcor Unh ersihj of Bonn Walter Crane. I. W. S, bridge. Argi of Man¬ " Late Director of the Botanic Gar- 3 . Royal Profesar of Textiles, University The Vi«co«int Sr f ret nber of Council of Art. Beard of Edu¬ Professor Vmcgradoff. Dr G. E Hal», Professor Adolfo Bar"->li, chester. Professor of Jurisprudence, Oxford. deis, Kew of Italian Literature, Author of "Pascal,'' "Francois of« Peni' cation for England. Mr A. Boulencrer. ¦'or Observatory, }fcunt Formerly Professor Dr. Voelcker, Ion." etc. Dr S. Mac "oil. Dr. Pa=quale Villari, George ra'. University of Florence. Consu't'"z Cbcrrtst to the Royal Agricul¬ Dugald "niversity of Flor¬ Assistant tit Zoology, British Museum of . British Professor of History, tureI of ï a'her Delahaye. S.J Keeper of the National Gallery of Natural History. Dr Poynti T«->hn Addington Symonds.* Society England. Bollandist; Joint Editor ci the "Acta Art. ence. I moor* in etc. Profesor H M. Howe. Turner, Dr. A C. L Günther, :. K.'fv cf Science, Author cf "The Renaissance Italy," Columbia Uni¬ Sanctorum W. A. J Ford, M. A. Professor Z.«7'«r in British MuseuM }f -¦.<¦¦ ighom. Professor of Metallurgy, Rev. Dr. Banlet. \ Teaeh-r ef Royal College of I Professor of History, arvard.