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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) RN stands for Real Number symbol and (Pd) for Partial derivative
symbol
(7) The following typographical errors have been corrected:
ARTICLE FRUIT: "The covering of the seed is marked i. n is the
nucellus or perisperm, enclosing the embryo-sac es, in which the
endosperm is formed." 'in' amended from 'is'.
ARTICLE FRUIT: "It occupies the whole cavity of the embryo-sac, or
is formed only at certain portions of it, at the apex, as in
Rhinanthus, ..." 'occupies' amended from 'occupied'.
ARTICLE FUEL: "Owing to the siliceous nature of the ash of straw,
it is desirable to have a means of clearing the grate bars from
slags and clinkers at short intervals, and to use a steam jet to
clear the tubes from similar deposits." 'straw' amended from
'sraw'.
ARTICLE FUEL: "In a research upon the heating power and other
properties of coal for naval use, carried out by the German
admiralty, the results tabulated below were obtained with coals
from different localities." 'from' amended from 'form'.
ARTICLE FUEL: "C + 2H2O = CO2 + 2H2" '+' amended from '='.
ARTICLE FULHAM: "The principal thoroughfares are Fulham Palace Road
running S. from Hammersmith, Fulham Road and King's Road, W. from
Chelsea, converging and leading to Putney Bridge over the Thames;
..." 'converging' amended from 'coverging'.
ARTICLE FULLER, THOMAS: "Their eldest child, John, baptized at
Broadwindsor by his father, 6th June 1641, was afterwards rector of
Sidney Sussex College, edited the Worthies of England, 1662, and
became rector of Great Wakering, Essex, where he died in 1687."
added 'rector'.
ARTICLE FUNCTION: "When Taylor's theorem leads to a representation
of the function by means of an infinite series, the function is
said to be "analytic" (cf. S 21)." 'Taylor's' amended from
'Talyor's'.
ARTICLE FUNCTION: "or a series which converges uniformly may be
integrated term by term." 'uniformly' amended from 'unformly'.
ARTICLE FUNGI: "Parasitism.--Some fungi, though able to live as
saprophytes, occasionally enter the body of living plants, and are
thus termed facultative parasites." 'Parasitism' amended from
'Parasatism'.
ARTICLE FUNGI: "Recent experiments have shown that the difficulties
of getting orchid seeds to germinate are due to the absence of the
necessary fungus, which must be in readiness to infect the young
seedling immediately after it emerges from the seed." added
'after'.
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