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 LIGHTHOUSE: "Examples of mercury floats are shown in figs.
41, 42, 43 and Plate I., figs. 54 and 55." 'and' amended from 'an'.
ARTICLE LIGHTHOUSE: "Electricity was substituted as an illuminant
for the then existing oil light at St Catherine's in 1888."
'Electricity' amended from 'Elctricity'.
ARTICLE LIGHTING: "They were, however, costly to install, so that
the flat flame burner retained its popularity in spite of the fact
that its duty was comparatively low ..." 'install' amended from
'instal'.
ARTICLE LIGHTING: "... the filament in the form of a lustrous and
dense deposit having an appearance like steel when seen under the
microscope." 'microscope' amended from 'miscroscope'.
ARTICLE LIMB: "... or to the subordinate members of the Cinque
Ports, attached to one of the principal towns; Pevensey was thus a
'limb' of Hastings." 'subordinate' amended from 'surbordinate'.
ARTICLE LIMON: "Its chief towns, after Limon, are Reventazon and
Matina, both with fewer than 3000 inhabitants." 'fewer' amended
from 'fever'.
ARTICLE LIMOUSIN: "Limousin takes its name from the Lemovices, a
Gallic tribe whose county was included by Augustus in the province
of Aquitania Magna." 'Aquitania' amended from 'Aquitanic'.
ARTICLE LIPSIUS, JUSTUS: "He then returned to Louvain, but was soon
driven by the Civil War to take refuge in Antwerp, where he
received, in 1579, a call to the newly founded university of
Leiden, as professor of history." 'Louvain' amended from 'Louvian'.
ARTICLE LIPSIUS, JUSTUS: "He died at Louvain on the 23rd of March
(some give 24th of April) 1606." 'Louvain' amended from 'Louvian'.
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