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EPSOM, a market town in the Epsom parliamentary division of Surrey, England, 14 m. S.W. by S. of London Bridge. Pop. of urban district (1901), 10,915. It is served by the London & South- Western a.nd the London, Brighton & South Coast railways, and on the race ...

EPSOM SALTS, heptohydrated magnesium sulphate, MgSO4-7HjO, the magnesii sulphas of pharmacy (Ger. Bitter sols). It occurs dissolved in sea water and in most mineral waters, especially in those at Epsom (from which place it takes its name), Seidlitz, Saidschutz ...

... became a fellow of the Royal Sodety. He had the good fortune to be called in at Epsom to prescribe for Prince George of Denmark, and in 1705 he was made physidan extraordinary to Queen Anne. Four years later he became royal physidan in ordinary, and in 1710 he ...

... burbs lie among the hills on the mainland, such as Mount Albert, Mount Eden and Epsom. Onehunga is a small port on Manukau harbour, served by rail. In Parnell is the former residence of Bishop Selwyn, who, arriving in the colony in 1842, assisted to draw up th ...

... vented by Archilochus. Accordingly we find thc first ten of these epodes EPONA— EPSOM composed in alternate verses of iambic trimeter and iambic dimeter, thus: — " At o Deorum quicquid in coelo regit Terras et humanum genus." In the seven remaining epodes Hora ...

... reconstitution committee after the South African War. ESHER, a township in the Epsom parliamentary division of Surrey, England, 145 m. S.W. of London by the London & South Western railway (Esher and Claremont station). It is pleasantly situated on rising grou ...