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Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1

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Title: Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1
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THE ENCYCLOP?DIA BRITANNICA - ELEVENTH EDITION
FIRST edition, published in three volumes, 1768-1771. SECOND edition, published in ten volumes, 1777-1784. THIRD edition, published in eighteen volumes, 1788-1797. FOURTH edition, published in twenty volumes, 1801-1810. FIFTH edition, published in twenty volumes, 1815-1817. SIXTH edition, published in twenty volumes, 1823-1824. SEVENTH edition, published in twenty-one volumes, 1830-1842. EIGHTH edition, published in twenty-two volumes, 1853-1860. NINTH edition, published in twenty-five volumes, 1875-1889. TENTH edition, ninth edition and eleven supplementary volumes, 1902-1903. ELEVENTH edition, published in twenty-nine volumes, 1910-1911.
THE ENCYCLOP?DIA BRITANNICA
A DICTIONARY OF ARTS, SCIENCES, LITERATURE AND GENERAL INFORMATION
ELEVENTH EDITION
VOLUME II
ANDROS to AUSTRIA
[E-Text Edition of Volume II - Part 01 of 16 - ANDROS to ANISE]

INITIALS USED IN VOLUME II. TO IDENTIFY INDIVIDUAL CONTRIBUTORS, WITH THE HEADINGS OF THE ARTICLES IN THIS VOLUME SO SIGNED.
[Note: Listing adjusted to E-Text Edition of Volume II, Part 01. The full list of contributors appear in the complete E-text Edition of Volume II. A complete list of all contributors to the encyclopaedia, appears in the final volume.]
A.B.R. - ALFRED BARTON RENDLE, F.R S F.L.S. D.Sc. Keeper of the Department of Botany, British Museum.
- ANGIOSPERMS
C.Pl. - REV. CHARLES PLUMMER, M.A. Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford. Ford's Lecturer, 1901. Author of _Life and Times of Alfred the Great_; &c.
- ANGLO-SAXON CHRONICLE
E.O. - EDMUND OWEN, M.B., F.R.C.S., LL.D., D.SC. Consulting Surgeon to St Mary's Hospital, London, and to the Children's Hospital, Great Ormond Street. Late Examiner in Surgery at the Universities of Cambridge, Durham and London. Author of A Manual of Anatomy for Senior Students.
- ANEURYSM
H.M.C. - HECTOR MUNRO CHADWICK, M.A. Fellow and Librarian of Clare College, Cambridge. Author of _Studies on Anglo-Saxon Institutions_.
- ANGLI; ANGLO-SAXONS
H.Sm. - HUGH SHERINGHAM. Angling Editor of The Field (London).
- ANGLING
I.B.B. - ISAAC BAYLEY BALFOUR, F.R.S., M.D. King's Botanist in Scotland. Regius Keeper of Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh. Professor of Botany in the University of Edinburgh. Regius Professor of Botany in the University of Glasgow, 1879-1884. Sherardian Professor of Botany in the University of Oxford, 1884-1888.
- ANGIOSPERMS (_in part_).
J.G.C.A. - JOHN GEORGE CLARK ANDERSON, M.A. Student, Censor and Tutor of Christ Church, Oxford. Craven Fellow, 1896. Formerly Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford. Joint-author of Studica Pontica.
- ANGORA
L.J.S. - LEONARD JAMES SPENCER, M.A., F.G.S. Department of Mineralogy, British Museum. Formerly Scholar of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, and Harkness Scholar. Editor of the Mineralogical Magazine.
- ANHYDRITE
L.M.Br. - LOUIS MAURICE BRANDIN, M.A. Fielden Professor of French and of Romance Philology in the University of London.
- ANGLO-NORMAN LITERATURE
N.W.T. - NORTHCOTE WHITBRIDGE THOMAS, M.A. Government Anthropologist to Southern Nigeria. Corresponding Member of the Societe d'Anthropologie de Paris. Author of _Thought Transference_; _Kinship and Marriage in Australia_; &c.
- ANIMAL-WORSHIP, ANIMISM
P.C.M. - PETER CHALMERS MITCHELL, F.R.S., F.Z.S., D.Sc., LL.D. Secretary to the Zoological Society of London from 1903. University Demonstrator in Comparative Anatomy and Assistant to Linacre Professor at Oxford, 1888-1891. Lecturer on Biology at Charing Cross Hospital, 1892-1894; at London Hospital, 1894. Examiner in Biology to the Royal College of Physicians, 1892-1896, 1901-1903. Examiner in Zoology to the University of London, 1903.
- ANIMAL
P.C.Y. - PHILIP CHESNEY YORKE, M.A. Magdalen College, Oxford.
- ANGLESEY, 1st EARL OF
P.Vi. - PAUL VINOGRADOFF, D.C.L. (Oxford), LL.D. (Cambridge and Harvard). Corpus Professor of Jurisprudence in the University of Oxford. Fellow of the British Academy. Honorary Professor of History in the University of Moscow. Author of _Villainage in England_; _English Society in the 11th Century_; &c.
- ANGLO-SAXON LAW
T.Ba. - SIR THOMAS BARCLAY, M.P.
Member of the Institute of International Law. Member of the Supreme Council of the Congo Free State. Officer of the Legion of Honour. Author of _Problems of International Practice and Diplomacy_; &c. M.P. for Blackburn, 1910.
- ANGARY
W.H.Be. - WILLIAM HENRY BENNETT, M.A., D.D., D.LITT. (Cantab.). Professor of Old Testament Exegesis in New and Hackney Colleges, London. Formerly Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge. Lecturer in Hebrew at Firth College, Sheffield. Author of _Religion of the Post-Exilic Prophets_; &c.
- ANGEL
W.H.Di. - WILLIAM HENRY DINES, F.R.S.
- ANEMOMETER
W.M.R. - WILLIAM MICHAEL ROSSETTI. See the biographical article: ROSSETTI, DANTE GABRIEL.
- ANGELICO, FRA
PRINCIPAL UNSIGNED ARTICLES
Anglican Communion. Angola.
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