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PIG. 5. horizontal solenia unite to B. Diagrammatic longitudinal section of a corallite. showing two platforms. £,nd Simn,e anclcup-fhaped^bulae, ,. (After S. J. H,ckson.) their consists of loose spicules. In the Tubiporidae the spicules of the proximal part o ...

... of the Congo (6° S., 12° E.) to the mouth of the Kunene river (17° 18' S., 11° 50' E.). The coast-line is some ooo m. long. On the north the Congo forms for 80 m. the boundary separating Angola from the Congo Free State. The frontier thence (in 5° 52' S.) goe ...

... gradually falls, and that when it has reached a sufficiently low point (about 25° C. in the monkey) , the employment of an anaesthetic is no longer necessary, the animal then being insensible to pain and incapable of being roused by any form of stimulus; it i ...

... the hands of the Royal Society of London, and was published by that body in 1 7 5 1 . The structure and classification of polyps, however, were at that time very imperfectly understood, and it was fully a century before the true anatomical characters and syste ...

... eland. The imperfect anthracite of north Devon, which however is only used as a pigment, is known as culm, the same term being used in geological classification to distinguish the strata in which it is found, and similar strata in the Rhenish hill countries wh ...

... by county Londonderry, the boundary with which is the river Bann. The area is 751,965 acres or about 1175 sq. m. A large portion of the county is hilly, especially in the east, where the highest elevations are attained, though these are nowhere great. The ran ...

... probably held until his death. As to the Argonautica, Longinus' (De Sublim. p. 54, 19) and Quintilian's (Instit. x. i, 54) verdict of mediocrity seems hardly deserved; although it lacks the naturalness of Homer, it possesses a certain simplicity and contains ...

ARAGO, DOMINIQUE FRANCOIS JEAN (1786-1853), French physicist, was born on the 26th of February 1786, at Estagel, a small village near Perpignan, in the department of the eastern Pyrenees. He was the eldest of four brothers. Jean (17881836) emigrated to America ...

... tigations. He was said to be the inventor of a kind of flying-machine, a wooden pigeon balanced by a weight suspended from a pulley, and set in motion by compressed air escaping from a valve.1 Fragments of his ethical and metaphysical writings are quoted by St ...

... S. by Louth and W. by Monaghan and Tyrone. The area is 327,704 acres, or about 512 sq. m. The general surface of the county is gently undulating and pleasantly diversified; but in the northern extremity, on the borders of Lough Neagh, there is a considerable ...

ARSENIC (symbol As, atomic weight 75-0), a chemical element, known to the ancients in the form of its sulphides. Aristotle gave them the name aa.v5apa.Kii, and Theophrastus mentions them under the name apotviKov. The oxide known as white arsenic is mentioned b ...

... w flowers. Asphodelus albus and A. fistulosus have white flowers and grow from 15 to 2 ft. high; A . ramosus is a larger plant, the large white flowers of which have a reddishbrown line in the middle of each segment. Bog-asphodel (Narthecium ossifragum) , a me ...

... born at Valence, Dr6me, on the 1 7th of September 1820. He was the grandson of Pigault Lebrun, and belonged to the well-to-do bourgeoisie in principles and in thought as well as by actual birth. He received a good education and studied for the bar. In 1844 he ...

... nd N. by the German empire (Saxony and Prussia) and Russia. It has an area of 115,533 SP,- m-> or about twice the size of England and Wales together. Austria is one of the states which constitute the Austro-Hungarian (Habsburg) monarchy (see AUSTRIA-HUNGARY: H ...

... " employed by the sacred scribes, and finally the " hieroglyphic " (Strom, v. 657). It is doubtful whether they classified the signs of the huge hieroglyphic syllabary with any strictness. The only native work on the writing that has come to light as yet is a ...

... n then prevalent, the scriptural name of Bezaleel (Exodus xxxi. 2 and xxxv. 30-35) owing to his artistic skill. It has been supposed that he was responsible for the erection of the basilica at Aix-laChapelle, where he resided with the emperor, and the other bu ...

... the East. Compared with most gems, the emerald is rather soft, its hardness (7-5) being but slightly above that of quartz. The specific gravity is low, varying slightly in stones from different localities, but being for the Muzo emerald about 2-67. . The refr ...

... 3-1882), American poet and essayist, was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on the 25th of May 1 803. Seven of his ancestors were ministers of New England churches. Among them were some of those men of mark who made the backbone of the American character: the stur ...

... of 2,477,690 (1901), embracing eight provinces, as follows: — (i) Bologna (pop. 529,612; 61 communes); (2) Ferrara (270,558; 16 communes); (3) Forli (283,996; 41 communes); (4) Modena (3Z3.S98; 45 communes); (5) Parma (303, 694; 50 communes); (6) Piacenza (250 ...

... da Peneda (4728 ft.), between the rivers Minho and Limia; the Serra do Gerez (4357 ft.), on the Galician border; the Serra da Cabreira (4021 ft.), immediately to the south; and the Serra de Marao (4642 ft:), in the extreme south-east. As its name implies, the ...

... deep and often tender in feeling, rich and varied in expression, and generally epigrammatic in form. They are written usually in elegiac verse, though many of the later i-pitaphs arc in proM-. Among the gems of the Greek anthology familiar to English readers t ...

ERASMUS, DESIOERIUS (1466-1536), Dutch scholar and theologian, was born on the night of the 27/28th of October, probably in 1466; but his statements about his age are conflicting, and in view of his own uncertainty (Ep. x. 29: 466) and the weakness of his memo ...

... t likely never be absolutely fixed,2 but their own tradition (Tacitus, Ann. iv. 55) that they came out of Lydia seems not impossible. Herodotus (i. 94) and Strabo (v. 220) tell of Lydians landing at the mouth of the Po and crossing the Apennines into Etruria. ...

... The distinction between Europe and Asia is found, however, in Aeschylus in the 5th century B.C., but there seems to be little doubt that this opposition was learnt by the Greeks from some Asiatic people. On Assyrian monuments the contrast between asu, " (the ...

... als Ordner des romischen Freystaates (1834); T. Lau, Lucius Cornelius Sulla (1855); E. Linden, De hello civili Sulla.no (1896); P. Cantalupi, La Guerra civile Sullana in Italia (1892) ; C. W. Oman, Seven Roman Statesmen (1902) ; F. D. Gerlach, Marius und Sull ...

... easy cultivation in moderately good soil. If. decapetalus is a perennial about 5 ft. high with solitary heads about 2 in. across in slender twiggy branchlets; H. multiflorus is a beautiful species with several handsome double varieties; H. orygalis is a grace ...

... l Gradient. Station. Karasjok. Sodankyla. Kew (19, 12). Greenwich. Florence. Perpignan. Lisbon. Tokyo. Batavia. Cape Horn(20). Period. 1903-41882-83. 18621864. 18981904. 1893-96. 1883-85. 1886-88. 1884-86. 1897-98. 1900-1. 18871890. 18901895. 1882-83. Days. Al ...

... liest was that in an anonymous letter1 to the Scots Magazine (vol. xv. p. 73, 1753), in which the use of as many insulated conductors as there are letters in the alphabet was suggested. Each wire was to be used for the transmission of one letter only, and the ...

... ulship, formed the subject of a panegyric by Claudian. THEODORUS STUDlTA (A.D. 759-826), Greek theological writer, abbot of the monastery of Studium, was born at .Constantinople. In 794 he succeeded his uncle Plato, who had persuaded him to become a monk some ...

... . i. 23, ii. 17) the prospect of personal survival (i Thess. iv. 17; i Cor. xv. 51, 52) until that bright day, yet as a teacher he lays such stress upon Christ's first coming that the emphasis on the second Advent may be struck out — leaving still, we might al ...

TURBERVILLE (or TURBEEVILE), GEORGE (1540^-1610?), English poet, second son of Nicholas Turberville of Whitchurch, Dorset, belonged to an old Dorsetshire family, the D'Urbervilles of Mr Thomas Hardy's novel, Tess. He became a scholar of Winchester College in 1 ...

... bed are recognizable with more or less continuity from the Gulf of St Lawrence 1500 m. south-westward to Alabama, where the deformed mountain structures pass out of sight under nearly horizontal strata of the Gulf coastal plain. But the dimensions of the sever ...

... ; ab, the rudimentary opisthosoma ; s. the mouth-bearing proboscis. on the 4th, 5th, and 6th. In all known Pantopoda the size of the body is quite minute as compared with that of the limbs: the alimentary canal sends a long caecum into each leg (cf. the Aranea ...

... s, until, in the extreme south, it tapers away to a narrow strip not more than 15 m. across. The coast is studded with islands, the most important of which are Cheduba, Ramrcc and Shahpura. The division has its headquarters at Akyab and consists of four distri ...

... nterior lateral rod or tendon. Natural size. (From Lankester, Q. J. Hie. Set.. N5. ml. niv.. 1884.) Limulus an Arachnid. — Modern views as to the classification and affinities of the Arachnida have been determined by the demonstration that Limulus and the exti ...

... ques (1849; reprinted from the Democrate du Rhin),L'Illuslre Docteur Matheus (1859), Madame Therese (1863), L'Ami Fritz (1864), Hisloire d'un consent de 1813 (1864), Waterloo (1865), Le Blocus (1867), Histoire d'un paysan (4 vols., 1868-1870), L' 'Histoire du ...

... final union of the various kingdoms under Alfred in 886. Bede (Hist. Eccl. i. 15) states that the people of the more northern kingdoms (East Anglia, Mercia, Northumbria, &c.) belonged to the Angli, while those of Essex, Sussex and Wessex were sprung from the ...

ANGOULBMB, CHARLES DE VALOIS, DUKE OF (1573-1650), the natural son of Charles IX. of France and Marie Touchet, was born on the 28th of April 1573,31 the castle of Fayet in Dauphine. His father, dying in the following year, commended him to the care and favour ...

... uilding-stone. Angoule'me (Iciilisma) was taken by Clovis from the Visigoths in 507, and plundered by the Normans in the 9th century. In 1360 it was surrendered by the peace of Bretigny to the English; they were, however, expelled in 1373 by the troops of Char ...

... eme. See Essai d'une bibliothtque historique de fAngoumois, by E. Castaigne (1845).