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; [dP] for partial differential symbol.
(6) The following typographical errors have been corrected:
ARTICLE LIBRARIES: "... to be called the Nationale Bibliotheek. In
1805 the present name was adopted; and since 1815 it has become the
national library." 'Nationale' amended from 'National'.
ARTICLE LIBRARIES: "Tijdschrift voor boek- en bibliotheekwezen
(Hague, 1903); ..." 'boek- en bibliotheekwezen' amended from
'boekund bibliothekwezen'.
ARTICLE LICHENS: "... thus Chroolepus umbrinus is found as the
gonidia of 13 different lichen genera." 'Chroolepus' amended from
'Chroolepns'.
ARTICLE LICHENS: "The soredia are the most successful method of
reproduction in lichens, for not only are some forms nearly always
without spore-formation and in others the spores largely abortive
..." 'largely' amended from 'laregly'.
ARTICLE LIEBIG, JUSTUS VON: "... but of the mineral constituents
the supply is limited because the soil cannot afford an indefinite
amount of them ..." 'constituents' amended from 'constitutents'.
ARTICLE LIGHT: "... and also to the study of achromatism, the
principles of which followed from Newton's analysis and synthesis
of white light." 'synthesis' amended from 'snythesis'.
ARTICLE LIGHT: "It follows from these principles that, in an
isotropic dielectric, transverse electric vibrations can be
propagated with a velocity ..." 'dielectric' amended from
'dialectric'.
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