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LONDON:

BRADBURY AND EVANS, PRINTERS, WHITEFRIARS.

No. 11, BOUVERIE STREET, FLEET STREET, E.C.

WORKS PUBLISHED BY

June, 1863.

BRADBURY AND EVANS.

THE ENGLISH CYCLOPÆDIA.

CONDUCTED BY CHARLES KNIGHT.

The ENGLISH CYCLOPÆDIA is Published in FOUR DIVISIONS, each Division being complete in itself, and sold as a separate Work.

In 4 Vols., cloth, £2 2s.; or bound in 2 Vols., In 4 Vols., cloth, £2 2s.; or bound in 2 Vols., half morocco, £2 10s.

THE CYCLOPÆDIA OF

GEOGRAPHY.

In 6 Vols., cloth, £3; or bound in 3 Vols., half morocco, £3 128.

THE CYCLOPÆDIA OF

BIOGRAPHY.

half morocco, £2 10s.

THE CYCLOPÆDIA OF

NATURAL HISTORY.

In 8 Vols., cloth, £4 16s.; or bound in 4 Vols., half morocco, £5 12s.

THE CYCLOPÆDIA OF

ARTS AND SCIENCES.

To which is now added, in 1 Vol. 4to, uniform with the work, price 6s. cloth,
or 98. half bound morocco,

A SYNOPTICAL INDEX TO THE FOUR DIVISIONS.

***The price of the complete Work, in Twenty-two Volumes (exclusive of the Index), bound in cloth, is £12; and in Double Volumes, half-bound in morocco, £14 4s.

THE CYCLOPÆDIA OF GEOGRAPHY embraces the Physical Features of every country, the Statistics of its department, and its Cities and Marts of Commerce; as well as recording its history to the most recent period.

THE CYCLOPÆDIA OF BIOGRAPHY may, without presumption, be stated to be the most complete Biographical Dictionary extant; unequalled in any language for the universality of its range, its fulness without verbosity, its accuracy, and its completeness to the present time. It possesses the new and important feature of giving notices of living persons, English and foreign, of contemporary celebrity. No work of a similar nature approaches the English Cyclopædia of Biography in cheapness.

THE CYCLOPÆDIA OF NATURAL HISTORY includes the contributions of the most eminent Naturalists. In BOTANY, those by Dr. Lankester, Dr. Lindley, and Dr. Royle; in GEOLOGY, those of Sir Henry de la Beche, Mr. Horner, and Professor Phillips; in MINERALOGY, those of Mr. R. Phillips and Professor W. Turner; in ZOOLOGY, those of Mr. Broderip, Professor Forbes, Mr. Ogilby, and Mr. Waterhouse; in COMPARATIVE ANATOMY and PHYSIOLOGY, those of Mr. Day, Professor Paget, and Dr. Southwood Smith.

THE CYCLOPÆDIA OF ARTS AND SCIENCES, embracing as it does all subjects

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THE ENGLISH CYCLOPÆDIA-continued.

not belonging to either of the above Divisions, is necessarily the most important and comprehensive. The following List mentions the principal subjects comprised

in it :

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Dr. ABDY, Cambridge.

G. B. AIRY, A. M., Trinity College, Cambridge, Astronomer Royal.

Dr. ATKINSON, F.C.S., Lecturer on Chemistry, Cheltenham College.

Dr. ATTFIELD, F.C.S., Director of the Laboratories of the Pharmaceutical Society, London.

W. AYRTON, F.R.S. (the late).

C. BAKER, Yorkshire Institution for the
Deaf and Dumb, Doncaster.
Rev. F. BAKER, Bolton, Lancashire.
Rev. J. BEARD, LL.D., Manchester.
Sir FRANCIS BEAUFORT (the late), Hydro-
grapher to the Admiralty.
Dr. BECKER (the late), of Berlin.
SAMUEL BIRCH, British Museum.
A. BISSETT, A.M., Barrister-at-Law.
T. BRADLEY, King's College, London.

E. W. BRAYLEY, F.R.S. JAMES BREESE.
J. BRITTON (the late), F.A.S.
W. J. BRODERIP (the late), F.R.S.

G. R. BURNELL, C.E. G. BUDD, M.D.
J. H. BURTON, Advocate, Edinburgh.
Rev. C. J. BURTON, Vicar of Lydd.
A. CAYLEY, F. R.S., F. R.A.S.
W. D. CHRISTIE, A.M., Trin. Coll. Cam.
T. COATES, formerly Sec. to Society for the
Diffusion of Useful Knowledge.
HENRY COLE, South Kensington Museum.
W. D. COOPER, F.A.S. W. COULSON.

EDWARD COWPER (the late), King's College.
G. L. CRAIK, A. M., Professor of History,
Queen's College, Belfast.
Professor DAVIES, Woolwich.

Sir J. F. DAVIS.

Dr. DAY, Professor of Medicine in the University of St. Andrew's.

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Sir H. ELLIS, late Principal Librarian of the British Museum.

T. FALCONER, Barrister-at-Law.
SAMUEL FERGUSON, Barrister-at-Law, Dublin.
E. FORBES (the late), Professor of Botany,
King's College.

E. FRANKLAND, Ph.D., F.R.S., St. Bartholomew's Hospital.

T. GALLOWAY, A. M., F.R.S. (the late).
W. C. GLEN, Poor Law Board.

Dr. GILDEMEISTER, University of Bonn.
Rev. J. W. GLEADHALL, Cambridge.
C. W. GOODWIN, Barrister-at-Law.
Dr. T. GOLDSTUCKER, Professor of Sanskrit
in University College, London.
JAS. GRANT, Barrister-at-Law.
R. GRANT, A.M., F.R.S., Professor of As-
tronomy in the University of Glasgow.
Dr. GREENHILL, Trin. Col. Oxford.
E. GUEST, Master of Caius Col., Cambridge.
Dr. GUTHRIE, F.C.S., Professor of Che-
mistry, University of Mauritius.
EDWARD HALL, C. E. J. O. HALLIWELL.
N. E. S. A. HAMILTON, Brit. Mus.
W. C. HAMILTON, State Paper Office.
J. A. HARDCASTLE, Trinity Col., Cambridge.

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THE ENGLISH CYCLOPÆDIA-continued.

Sir EDMUND HEAD. Rev. W. HICKEY.

GEORGE HOGARTH.

F. HOLME, Corpus Christi College, Oxford.
J. HOPPUS, Professor of Mental Philosophy,
University College, London.
LEONARD HORNER, F.R.S.
W. HOSKING (the late).

H. HOWARD, R. A. (the late).

Rev. J. HUNTER, F.S. A. (the late).
Colonel JACKSON (the late), Secretary to the
Royal Geographical Society.

D. JARDINE, A.M. (the late), Police Magistrate, Bow Street.

C. J. JOHNSTONE, M.D. (the late).

R. M. KERR, LL.D., Barrister-at-Law.

T. H. KEY, A. M., Trin. Col. Cam., University College.

J. B. KINNEAR, Barrister-at-Law.
Dr. JOHN KITTO (the late).
CHARLES KNIGHT.

Count KRASINSKI (the late).
E. LANKESTER, M.D.
Colonel LEAKE (the late).

J. LE CAPPELAIN, Actuary of the Albion
Insurance Company.

E. LEVIEN, M.A., Baliol College, Oxford.
G. H. LEWES. Sir G. C. LEWIS, Bart.
Rev. G. F. LEWIS. Dr. LINDLEY, F. R.S.
GEORGE LONG, A. M., Editor of the Penny
Cyclopædia.

J. J. LONSDALE, Barrister-at-Law.
CHARLES MACFARLANE (the late).
D. MACLACHLAN, Barrister-at-Law.

A. T. MALKIN, A.M., Trinity College,
Cambridge.

T. MALONE, London Institution.
Mr. Serjeant MANNING.

DAVID MASSON, Professor of English Lite-
rature in University College, London.
T. ERSKINE MAY, C.B., Author of "The
Constitutional History of England," &c.
R. H. MEADE, formerly Lecturer at St.
George's Hospital.

Rev. A. W. M. MORRISON, A. M., Trinity
College, Cambridge.

J. C. MORTON. A. MUÑOZ DE SOTOMAYOR. Rev. R. MURPHY (the late), Caius College, Cambridge.

J. NARRIEN (the late), Professor of Mathematics, Royal Military College, Sandhurst.

E. NORRIS, Honorary Secretary to the Asiatic Society.

WM. OGILBY, Trinity College, Cambridge. Rev. T. J. ORMEROD. JOHN OXENFORD. J. PAGET, Bartholomew's Hospital.

J. PHILLIPS, F. G.S., Professor of Geology in the University of Oxford.

R. PHILLIPS, F. R.S. (the late).

J. R. PLANCHÉ, Rouge Croix Pursuivant. W. PLATE, LL.D. J. C. PLATT.

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Major PROCTOR, late of the Royal Military College, Sandhurst.

G. R. PORTER, F. R.S. (the late), Secretary to the Board of Trade. A. RAMSAY. T. G. REEP.

Rev. W. L. RHAM (the late), Vicar of Wink field.

CARL RITTER, Professor of Geography in the University of Berlin. Lieutenant RAPER, R. N.

Dr. ROSEN (the late), Professor of Sanskrit, University College, London.

Dr. REINHOLD ROST, of St. Augustine's College, Canterbury.

Dr. J. F. ROYLE.

Rev. Dr. C. W. RUSSELL, President of May. nooth College.

S. M. SAXBY, Principal Instructor of Naval Engineers of Her Majesty's Reserve, Sheerness.

Dr. LEONARD SCHMITZ, Rector of the High School, Edinburgh.

Rev. R. SHEEPSHANKS, A.M. (the late),
Trinity College, Cambridge.

Rev. T. SHORE. J. SIMON, M.D.
G. R. SMALLEY, King's College School.
Rev. E. SMEDLEY (the late).

H. SMITH (the late), Secretary of King's
College, London.

Dr. WM. SMITH, Classical Examiner in the University of London.

T. SOUTHWOOD SMITH, M. D.

W. SPALDING (the late), Professor of Logic,
St. Andrew's University.

J. STARK, Advocate-General, Ceylon.
G. G. STOKES, Lucasian Professor in the
University of Cambridge.

W. J. TAYLER, A.M., Cambridge.
JAMES THORNE.

C. TOMLINSON, Lecturer on Physical Science,
King's College School.

G. TUCKER, Professor of Moral Philosophy in the Virginian University.

W. TURNER (the late).

A. URE, M.D., F.R.S. (the late).
ANDRE VIEUSSEUX (the late).

G. R. WATERHOUSE, Keeper of Geology in the British Museum.

THOMAS WATTs, British Museum.
R. WESTMACOTT, R. A.
Rev. R. WHISTON.

WALTER WHITE, Assistant Secretary of the
Royal Society.

J. J. G. WILKINSON.

G. WILLMORE, A.M. (the late), Trinity College, Cambridge, Barrister-at-Law. Cardinal WISEMAN.

Lieut. WOLFE, R.N.

R. N. WORNUM, Curator of the National Gallery.

W. YOUATT (the late).

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THE ENGLISH CYCLOPÆDIA-continued.

OPINIONS OF THE PRESS.

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FROM THE QUARTERLY REVIEW. APRIL, 1863.

"In short, the English Cyclopædia' is a work that, as a whole, has no superior, and very few equals of its kind; that, taken by itself, supplies the place of a small library, and, used in a large library, is found to present many points of information that are sought in vain in any other cyclopædia in the English language."

FROM THE TIMES. OCT. 4, 1861.

"As regards the contents of this Cyclopædia, it is, however, impossible to give any sufficient impression of an aggregate which includes somewhere or other all the information generally required upon every conceivable topic. A good Encyclopædia, as every one knows, is a compendious library, and though students may require further information upon some points than its summaries contain, even students will be surprised in this instance to find the materials at their disposal when they once adopt the habit of resorting to its pages. For all practical purposes a large proportion of the articles may be said to be exhaustive; they are accurate to a degree which will strike even those who know what pains have been taken to render them so; and as they are concise as well as full, every column being rammed like a sky-rocket, the owner has a reservoir out of all proportion to the library shelves it will occupy."

FROM THE EXAMINER. Oct. 19.

"Mr. Knight completed a few weeks ago the two-and-twenty volumes of that excellent English Cyclopædia, into which the Penny Cyclopædia has now been recast. The revised issue was planned in four divisions. Each is a complete work, having distinct claims on a large special class of readers, while the four together now constitute a general Cyclopædia, singularly accurate and full, of which the two-and-twenty volumeseight given to Arts and Sciences, six to Biography, four to Geography, and four to Natural History-cost only twelve pounds. Now that its reprints may be on untaxed paper, this admirable work and others that preceded or are concurrent with it, will, we trust, bring their late worldly reward to one, who, having been for forty years a most unwearied labourer for the instruction of the public, toils yet with the determined vigour of youth when his years are threescore-and-ten."

FROM AN ARTICLE BY DAVID MASSON, IN MACMILLAN'S MAGAZINE for March. "Whoever wants an Encyclopædia, extensive and yet cheap, and compiled throughout on the principle of compendious and accurate information on all subjects rather than on that of collected individual dissertations, cannot do better than procure the English Cyclopædia' of Mr. Charles Knight. As a digest of universal knowledge which shall serve for the popular and miscellaneous purposes of all, and at the same time furnish materials and abstracts for those who are studying special subjects, and aim at substantial and exact science, the English Cyclopædia' may be confidently recommended."

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FROM THE SATURDAY REVIEW. SEPT. 28, 1861.

"Upon the whole, then, we are able to speak very favourably of this new Cyclopædia. Its great recommendation is not its comparative cheapness (though the cost only averages about half a guinea a volume), but its originality, completeness, and general trustworthiness. We may express a hope that its enterprising publisher will have no reason to regret his considerable venture. He is not likely, we think, to have to complain of want of patronage, if it is sufficiently remembered that any one of his four great Divisions may be purchased separately as a work complete in itself. Few may be able to afford the whole series but there are many who will be glad to procure, for example, a Biographical Dictionary, while others will require, for their peculiar tastes or studies, the Geographical Cyclopædia, or those of the Arts and Sciences, or of Natural History."

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