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NEW WERNER TWENTIETH CENTURY EDITION

OF THE

ENCYCLOPÆDIA BRITANNICA

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PROFS. SPENCER BAYNES, LL.D., AND W. ROBERTSON SMITH, LL.D.

ASSISTED BY OVER ONE THOUSAND CONTRIBUTORS

The first twenty-four volumes of the New Werner Edition contain thirty-one new and later articles, written
by American authors, replacing articles on similar subjects written by different

authors for the original ninth English (Foreign) Edition

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VOLUME VI

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VOL. VI. (CLI-DAY).

Total number of Articles, 761.

PRINCIPAL CONTENTS.

ALEX. BUCHAN, Secretary, Scottish
Meteorological Society.

CLIVE. G. SMITH, LL.D., Editor of "Annals

of Indian Administration, 1868-69."

CLOCKS. Right Hon. Lord GRIMSTHORPE, Q.C.

CLUB. Rev. Canon J. S. NORTHCOTE, and J.

CLAUDE WEBSTER, Athenæum Club.

COAL. H. BAUERman, F.G.S., Royal School of

Mines.

COBDEN. HENRY RICHARD, M.P.

COCHIN CHINA. C. MAUNOIR, Société de Geog-
raphie.

COFFEE. JAMES PATON, Corporation Galleries,

Glasgow.

COFFER-DAMS. DAVID STEVENSON, C.E.
COLEOPTERA. JOHN GIBSON, Industrial Mu-
seum, Edinburgh.

COLERIDGE. Rev. G. D. BOYLE, M.A.
COLOMBIA. H. A. WEBSTER.

COLOSSIANS. Rev. W. Saumarez SMITH, Prin-
cipal, St. Aidan's College, Birkenhead.

COMET. J. RUSSELL HIND, F.R.S., Superintend-

ent of the "Nautical Almanac."

COMMERCE. ROBERT SOMERS,

"Trade Unions."

COMMUNISM. Mrs. FAWCETT.

COMPANY. EDMUND ROBERTSON, LL.D., M.P.,
Professor of Roman Law, University College,

COMPASS. F. H. BUTLER, M.A.

[London.

COMTE. JOHN MORLEY, M.P., Editor of the

"Men of Letters" Series.

CONDILLAC. Rev. D. BALSILLIE, M.A.
CONDORCET. ROBERT FLINT, D.D., Professor
of Divinity, University of Edinburgh.
CONFUCIUS. Rev. JAMES LEGGE, Professor of
Chinese, University of Oxford.

CONGRESS. HENRY REEVE, C.B.
CONGREVE. A. C. SWINBURNE.

CONIC SECTIONS. H. M. TAYLOR, Fellow of
Trinity College, Cambridge.

CONNECTICUT. W. G. ABBOT, Hartford, Conn.

CONSTANTINE. W. BROWNING SMITH.

CONSTANTINOPLE.

Rev. C. G. CURTIS, Chap-

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T. M'K. WOOD.

CROQUET. HENRY JONES.
CROSS. Rev. CHARLES BOUTELL.
CROUP. Dr. J. O. AFFLECK.

CRUSADES. Rev. Sir GEO. W. Cox, Bart.
CRUSTACEA. HENRY WOODWARD, F. R.S., Brit-
ish Museum.

CRYPT. Rev. Canon VENABLES.

CRYPTOGRAPHY. J. E. BAILEY.

CRYSTALLOGRAPHY. JAMES NICOL, late Pro-
fessor of Natural History, University of Aber-
deen.

CUBA. KEITH JOHNSTON.

CUCKOO. ALFRED NEWTON, Professor of Zoöl-
ogy, etc., University of Cambridge.

CUDWORTH. Prof. R. FLINT, D.D.

CUMBERLAND. H. I. JENKINSON and J. C.

WARD.

CUMBERLAND (BISHOP). Prof. FLINT.

CUMBERLAND (DRAMATIST). A. W. Ware,

Professor of English Literature, Owens College,

Manchester.

CURVE. ARTHUR CAYLEY, LL.D., F.R.S., Sad-

lerian Professor of Mathematics, Cambridge.

CUTTLEFISH. Prof. H. A. NICHOLSON.

CUYP. J. A. CROWE, Author of Painting in

Italy."

CYPRUS. E. H. BUNBURY.

CYRUS. Rev. Prof. A. H. SAYCE, Queen's Col-
lege, Oxford.

DACČA. Hon. W. W. HUNTER, LL.D., Director-
General of Indian Statistics.

DAHOMEY. Col. W. K. ELLES, C.B.

DALHOUSIE. GEORGE SMITH, LL.D., Editor of
"Annals of Indian Administration."

DALLING. CHARLES KENT.

DALTON. F. H. BUTler.

DAMASCUS. J. L. PORTER, D.D., LL.D., Profes-
sor of Biblical Criticism, Belfast.

DANCE. W. C. SMITH, LL.B.

DANIEL. Rev. Prof. CHEYNE.

DANTE.

OSCAR BROWNING, M.A., Fellow of

King's College, Cambridge.

DANTON. JOHN MORLEY, M.P.
DARIUS. Rev. Prof. SAYCE.

DAVID. Prof. W. ROBERTSON SMITH, LL.D.

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