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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 GAUDEN, JOHN: "... and on the fact that it was admitted by
Clarendon, who should have had means of being acquainted with the
truth." 'should' amended from 'sould'.
ARTICLE GAWAIN: "In the later Historia of Geoffrey of Monmouth, and
its French translation by Wace, Gawain plays an important and
'pseudo-historic' rôle." 'Geoffrey' amended from 'Goeffrey'.
ARTICLE GAYA: "... and at which a religious fair is held each
September, attended by 10,000 to 20,000 pilgrims." '20,000' amended
from '20,0000'.
ARTICLE GECKO: "The arrangement of the lamellae and pads differs
much in the various genera and is used for classificatory
purposes." 'classificatory' amended from 'classificactory'.
ARTICLE GEDDES, ALEXANDER: "Although under ecclesiastical censures,
he had never swerved from a consistent profession of faith as a
Catholic; and on his death-bed he duly received the last rites of
his communion." 'Although' amended from 'Athough'.
ARTICLE GELSEMIUM: "It was first described in 1640 by John
Parkinson, who grew it in his garden from seed sent by Tradescant
from Virginia; at the present time it is but rarely seen, even in
botanical gardens, in Great Britain." 'Britain' amended from
'Britian'.
ARTICLE GEM: "From the Byzantine period downward one peculiarity of
gem-engraving becomes noticeable." 'peculiarity' amended from
'peculiarty'.
ARTICLE GENEALOGY: "... or that Bilhan points to an old clan
associated with Reuben (Gen. xxxv. 22) or Edom (Bilhan, Gen. xxxvi.
27), ..." 'Bilhan' amended from 'Bilhah'.
ARTICLE GENTIANACEAE: "... bright blue corolla, is visited by
bumble bees; and G. verna, with a still longer narrower tube, is
visited by Lepidoptera." 'bumble' amended from 'humble'.
ARTICLE GENTZ, FRIEDRICH VON: "... but partly supplemented in
Österreichs Teilnahme an den Befreiungskriegen (Vienna, 1887) ..."
'Österreichs' amended from 'Öesterreichs'.
ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA
A DICTIONARY OF ARTS, SCIENCES, LITERATURE
AND GENERAL INFORMATION