CHAMBERS'S ENCYCLOPÆDIA A DICTIONARY OF UNIVERSAL KNOWLEDGE NEW EDITION Edited by DAVID PATRICK, M.A., LL.D. AND WILLIAM GEDDIE, M.A., B.Sc. VOLUME III CATARRH TO DIOPHANTUS W. & R. CHAMBERS, LIMITED J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY, PHILADELPHIA All Rights Reserved : Among the more important articles in this Volume are the following: A great many of the articles named above are new; others written for earlier issues of this Encyclopædia have been so thoroughly revised by their authors as to be virtually new. In addition to these many other revisers have taken part, including Professor J. A. S. WATSON (on Agriculture), Mr CHARLES MORRIS (America), Mr C. INGLIS CLARK (Chemistry), Dr MARY T. RANKIN (Economics), Sheriff IRVINE, Sheriff DUNBAR, Sir THOMAS RALEIGH (Law), Professor WILLIAM PEDDIE (Mathematics and Physics), Dr JOHN D. COMRIE (Medicine), Mr R. C. MOSSMAN (Meteorology), Captain H. M. JOHNSTONE (Military subjects), Admiral Sir REGINAld Tupper, K.C.B. (Naval subjects). |