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TABLE II. — Diurnal Variation Potential 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. ...

EUGENIUS II., pope, was a native of Rome, and was chosen to succeed Pascal I. in 824. His election did not take place without difficulty. Eugenius was the candidate of the nobles, and the clerical faction brought forward a competitor. But the monk Wala, the re ...

... . 59. — Schizomus crassicaudatus, one of the Pedipalpi. Lateral view of a male. II to VI, the prosomatic appendages, the first being concealed (see fig. 58) ; 5, the fifth, and 1 1 , the eleventh tergites of the opisthosoma; pa, the conical post-anal lobe. (Or ...

... ith a very poor insight into their design were it not for the discovery of Pompeii (q.v.) and Herculaneum (q.v.). The descriptions given by Pliny of the lavish extravagance in the Roman nouses, and the employment of various Greek marbles in the shape of monoli ...

SULEIMAN II. (1641-1691), sultan of Turkey, was a son of Sultan Ibrahim, and succeeded his brother Mahommed IV. in 1687. Forty-six years of enforced retirement had qualified him for the cloister rather than for the throne, and his first feeling when notified o ...

THEODORE II. (1580-1605), tsar of Russia, was the son of Tsar Boris Godunov and one of the daughters of MalyutaSkuratov, the infamous favourite of Ivan the Terrible. Passionately beloved by his father, he received the best available education for those days, a ...

THEODOSIUS II. (401-450) succeeded his father Arcadius as emperor of the East in 408. During his minority the empire was ably ruled by the praetorian prefect Anthemius and Pulcheria, who became her brother's guardian in 414. Under his sister's care the young e ...

TIGLATH-PILESER II. or III., son of Hadad-nirari II., appears to have reigned from about 950 to 930 B.C., but nothing is known about him.

... Saxony — and of five enclaves surrounded by Prussian territory, viz. Alsleben, Miihlingen,Dornburg,G6dnitz and Tilkerode-Abberode. The eastern and larger portion of the duchy is enclosed by the Prussian government district of Potsdam (in the Prussian jrovince ...

ANILINE, PHENYLAMNE, or AIIINOBENZENE, (C«H»NHi), an organic base first obtained from the destructive distillation of ndigo in 1826 by O. Unverdorben (Pogg. Ann., 1826, 8, p. 397), who named it crystalline. In 1834, F. Runge (Pogg. Ann., 1834, 31, p. 65; 32, p ...

... I< x:oc, (Ml, -H.O+C.H, :OC,H, Anthracene crystallizes in colourless monoclinic tables which show a fine blue fluorescence. It melts at 213° C. and boils at 351° C. It is insoluble in water, sparingly soluble in alcohol and ether, but readily soluble in hot be ...

... rax as if it were the only cattle disease worthy of mention (see Virgil, Georg. iii.). It figures largely in the history of the early and middle ages as a devastating pestilence attacking animals, and through them mankind; the oldest AngloSaxon manuscripts con ...

... subtle dialectics of the Talmudists (Loeb, Juif de I'kistoire; Jellinek, Der J iidische Stamm) . Thus, the Jew who emerged from the ghetto was no longer a Palestinian Semite, but an essentially modern European, who differed from his Christian fellow-countryme ...

... sprudence was cultivated by men of high ability, and a number of humane and equitable enactments were passed in his name. Of the public transactions of this period we have but scant information, but, to judge by what we possess, those twenty-two years were not ...

... he range runs north and south, and, following this direction 1 Life of Ormonde, iii. 509 ; see also Cal. of State Papers, Ireland, 1660-1662, pp. 294, 217; Cal. of Clarendon St. Pap., ii. 69, and Gardiner's Commonwealth, i. 153. 2 Hallam, Const. Hist., iii. 39 ...

ANTRIM THE IBERIAN, a notable figure in the ecclesiastical history of Rumania. A Georgian by birth, he came to Rumania early in the second half of the iyth century, as a simple monk. He became bishop of Ramnicu in 1705, and in 1708 archbishop of Walachia. Taki ...

... as the bushy tail of the fox or the jackal. Probably these were the original genii of the necropolis, and in fact the same lean animal figured passant is sib " jackal " or " fox." The domestic dog would be brought into the sacred circle through the increased v ...

... in certain histories of early Christian literature (e.g. those of Harnack and Kriiger), and classed each under its own literary type — so sacrificing to outer form, which is quite secondary in primitive Christian writings, the more significant fact of religiou ...

... he medical profession were not regularly distinguished till the reign of Henry VIII., when separate duties were assigned to them, and peculiar privileges were granted to each. In 1518 the physicians of London were incorporated, and the barbersurgeons in 1540. ...

... as Lycurgus, or worship of the living as true deities, e.g. Lysander and Philip II. of Macedon, occurred sporadically even before Alexander's conquests brought Greek life into contact with oriental traditions. It was inevitable, too, that ancient monarchies sh ...

... ng the] best opportunities for that study of the habits and environment of marketable food-fish without which no steps for the improvement of sea-fisheries can be safely taken. The numerous " zoological stations " which have sprung up, chiefly in Europe and th ...

... Sherif Pasha for Riaz Pasha as prime minister, and to convene an assembly of notables. Arabi became under-secretary for war at the beginning of 1882, but continued his intrigues. The assembly of notables claimed the right of voting the budget, and thus came i ...

... t him chief minister for his young brother-in-law ARBOIS -ARBORETUM Valentinian II. Ilia rule was moil energetic; but while he favoured the barbarians in the imperial service, and appointed them to high office, Valentinian, openly jealous of his minister, soug ...

... The collection of trees in the Botanic Garden at Cambridge is also one of respectable proportions. There is a small but very select collection of trees at Oxford, the oldest botanical ARBORICULTURE— ARBOS garden in Great Britain, which was founded in 1632. In ...

... e published Of the Laws of Chance . . . , based on the Latin version, De Ratociniis in ludo aleae, of a Dutch treatise by Christiaan Huygens. In 1692 he entered University College, Oxford, as a fellow-commoner, acting as private tutor to Edward Jefferys; and i ...

... Under his leadership, Tarentum fought with unvarying success against the Messapii, Lucania and even Syracuse. After a life of high intellectual achievement and uninterrupted public service, he was drowned (according to a tradition suggested by Horace, Odes, i ...

... record judicial decisions. The value of this latter account is, of course, debatable, but it is at least compatible with the general trend of development from hereditary absolutism, civil, military and religious, in the person of the " king," to a constitutio ...

... tiful blue glow so characteristic of argon immediately appeared. (Pkil. Afag. xliii. p. 77, 1897.) The behaviour of argon at low temperatures was investigated by K. S. Olszewski (Phil. Trans., 1895, p. 253). The following results are extracted from the table g ...

... , in which it remained save during a brief occupation by the Spartans Cleomenes III. (q.v.) and Nabis (224 and 196). The Roman conquest of Achaea enhanced the prosperity of Argos by removing the trade competition of Corinth. Under the Empire, Argos was the hea ...

... gly be found all that need be said as to the relation between the instrumental riiorntUo and the material of the voice part in an aria. So far we have spoken only of the main body of the aria; but the addition of a middle section with a da Capo, which constitu ...

... otle from the first profited by having a father who, being physician to Amyntas II., king of Macedon, and one of the Asclepiads who, according to Galen, practised their sons in dissection, both prepared the way for his son's influence at the Macedonian court, ...

... e box made of bulrushes in which Pharaoh's daughter found the infant MOMS ••lux ii. .0, and (2) of the great vessel or ship in which Noah took refuge during the flood (Genesis vi.-ix.). Noah's Ark.— According to the story in Genesis, Noah's ark was large enoug ...

... in extent, continued steadily to increase in sixe, and about 1140 Count Gerald III. added the whole of Feiensac to his possessions. Under the English rule the counts of Armagnac were turbulent and untrustworthy vassals; and the administration of the Black Pri ...

... shing Areky's Dream; sometimes Jester to his Majestic, but exiled Ike Court by Ciinlfrhurir's miilire. Subsequently he resided at Arthun-t in Cumberland, according to some accounts his birthplace, where he possessed an estate, and where he died in 1672, his bu ...

... e 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 by the Greek alchemist Olympiodorus, who obtained it by roasting arsenic ...

ARSES, Persian king, youngest son of Artaxerxes III., was raised to the throne in 338 B.C. by Bagoas (q.v.), who had ARSINOE— ARSON murdered his father and all his brother*. But when the young king tried to make himself independent, Bagoas killed him too, with ...

... g fourteen years, but setting fire to stacks of the same, or any cultivated vegetable produce, or to peat, coals, &c., is regarded as a more serious offence, and the penal servitude may be for life. For the attempt to commit the last two offences penal servitu ...

... s (iv. 83; cf. also iv. 143), and predicts to Xerxes his defeat by the Greeks (vii. 10 ff ., 46 ff.) ; Xerxes sent him home to govern the empire during the campaign (vii. 52, 53). 2. Vizier of Xerxes (Ctesias, Pers. 20), whom he murdered in 465 B.C. According ...

... c coast, which had gained their liberty (Ed. Meyer, Forschungen sur alt. Gesch. ii. 71 ff.). In the Samian and the Peloponnesian wars, Artaxerxes remained neutral, in spite of the attempts made by both Sparta and Athens to gain his alliance. During the reign o ...

... The suggested etymologies of the name (see O. Gruppe, Griechische hfythologie, ii.p. 1 267, note 2), as in the case of most of the Olympian deities, are unsatisfactory, and throw no light upon her significance and characteristics. The Homeric and later concep ...