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THE

ENCYCLOPÆDIA BRITANNICA

A

DICTIONARY

OF

ARTS, SCIENCES, LITERATURE AND GENERAL

INFORMATION

ELEVENTH EDITION

VOLUME XI
FRANCISCANS to GIBSON

NEW YORK

THE ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA COMPANY

1910

RFA 50.23 (11)

7F38

FOGG ART MUSEUM
HARVARD UNIVERSITY

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Copyright, in the United States of America, 1910,
by

The Encyclopædia Britannica Company.

INITIALS USED IN VOLUME XI. TO IDENTIFY INDIVIDUAL

CONTRIBUTORS,1 WITH THE HEADINGS OF THE

ARTICLES IN THIS VOLUME SO SIGNED.

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A. G. B.*

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Gastrotricha.

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Frigate-Bird; Gadwall;
Gannet; Gare Fowl.

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Geometry: VI. (in part)

and VII.

Colonel, Royal Engineers. Royal Medallist, Royal Society, 1887. In charge of Geodesy (in part).
the trigonometrical operations of the Ordnance Survey, 1854-1881.

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See the biographical article, WARD, A. W.

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Formerly Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. Author of Foundations of Geometry: VI. (in part).
Geometry; Principles of Mathematics; &c.

A. W. W.

ADOLPHUS WILLIAM WARD, LITT.D., LL.D.

B. A. W. R.

HON. BERTRAND ARTHUR WILLIAM RUSSELL, M.A., F.R.S.

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CHARLES RAYMOND BEAZLEY, M.A., D.LITT., F.R.G.S., F.R.HIST.S.
Professor of Modern History in the University of Birmingham. Formerly Fellow
of Merton College, Oxford, and University Lecturer in the History of Geography, Gerard of Cremona.
Lothian Prizeman, Oxford, 1889. Lowell Lecturer, Boston, 1908. Author of
Henry the Navigator; The Dawn of Modern Geography; &c.

CLAUDE REGNIER CONDER, LL.D.

Colonel. Royal Engineers. Formerly in command of Survey of Palestine. Author Galileo, (in par (in part).

REV. CHARLES TAYLOR, M.A., D.D., LL.D. (1840-1908).

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Formerly Master of St John's College, Cambridge. Vice-Chancellor, Cambridge Geometrical Continuity.
University, 1887-1888. Author of Geometrical Conics; &c.

CECIL WEATHERLY.

mission. Director-General of the Ordnance Survey, 1886-1894. Director-General Galilee, Sea of (in part).
of Military Education, 1895-1898. Author of From Korti to Khartoum; Life of
Lord Clive; &c.

DUGALD CLERK, M.INST.C.E., F.R.S.

Director of the National Gas Engine Co., Ltd. Inventor of the Clerk Cycle Gas Gas Enginè.
Engine.

DONALD FRANCIS TOVEY.

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