Produced by Marius Masi, Don Kretz, Juliet Sutherland and
the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at
https://www.pgdp.net
Transcriber's notes:
(1) Numbers following letters (without space) like a2 or were originally
printed in subscript.
(2) Side-notes were moved as titles to their respective paragraphs.
(3) Chinese characters were denoted as [Ch].
(4) Letters topped by Macron are represented as [=x].
(5) Letters topped by Breve are represented as [)x].
(6) The following typographical errors have been corrected:
Page 159: "a detailed account of the period (Santiago, 1875); the
same author's," 'Santiago' amended from 'Sanitago'.
Page 183: "The more important are those that follow:--," amended
from 'folllow'.
Page 183: "The three provinces adjoining the metropolitan province
of Chih-li--Shan-tung, Shan-si and Ho-nan--have no viceroys over
them," 'Ho-nan' amended from 'Hon-an'.
Page 242: "The bats included in this suborder are so numerous in
genera (to say nothing of species) that only some of the more
important types can be mentioned).)," superfluous parenthesis
removed.
ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA
A DICTIONARY OF ARTS, SCIENCES, LITERATURE
AND GENERAL INFORMATION