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Transcriber's notes:
(1) Numbers following letters (without space) like C2 were originally
printed in subscript. Letter subscripts are preceded by an
underscore, like C_n.
(2) Characters following a carat (^) were printed in superscript.
(3) Side-notes were relocated to function as titles of their respective
paragraphs.
(4) Macrons and breves above letters and dots below letters were not
inserted.
(5) [root] stands for the root symbol; [alpha], [beta], etc. for greek
letters.
(6) The following typographical errors have been corrected:
ARTICLE CUCKOO: "The best-known species (C. ani) is found
throughout the Antilles and on the opposite continent." 'found'
amended from 'foud'.
ARTICLE CUCURBITACEAE: "Fig. 1.--Bryonia dioica, Bryony. 1, part of
corolla of male flower with attached stamens; 2, female flower
after removal of calyx and corolla; 3, berries; 1, 2, 3 about nat.
size." 'corolla' amended from 'carolla'.
ARTICLE CURIA: "It is more probable that the curiae were not purely
artificial creations, but represent natural associations of
families, artificially regulated and distributed to serve a
political purpose." 'families' amended from 'familief'.
ARTICLE CURTEA DE ARGESH: "Above this comes a row of circular
shields, adorned with intricate arabesques, while bands and wreaths
of lilies are everywhere sculptured on the windows, balconies,
tambours and cornices, adding lightness to the fabric."
'sculptured' amended from 'scupltured'.
ARTICLE CURVE: "For an acnodal cubic the six imaginary inflections
disappear, and there remain three real inflections lying in a
line." 'imaginary' amended from 'imaginery'.
ARTICLE CURVE: "... and a curve of any order deficiency = or > 3
can be rationally transformed into a curve of the order D + 3,
deficiency D." 'deficiency' amended from 'deficience'.
ARTICLE CURVE: "The extension to curves of any given deficiency D
was made in the memoir of Cayley, 'On the correspondence of two
points on a curve,'--Proc. Lond. Math. Soc...." 'Proc' amended from
'Porc'.
ARTICLE CUXHAVEN: "The harbour is good and secure, and is much
frequented by vessels delayed in the Elbe by unfavourable weather."
'unfavourable' amended from 'unfavourbale'.
ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA
A DICTIONARY OF ARTS, SCIENCES, LITERATURE
AND GENERAL INFORMATION