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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...article on the "United States" in the new edition of the 'Encyclopedia Brittanica' will be the work of Professors Dwight Whitney of Harvard, and Alexander Johnston of Princeton. Professor Whitney will treat of the geographical features of the country; Professor Johnston of its history...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 1/25/1886 | See Source »

...prominent member of '88 is reported to be reading through the Encyclopedia Brittanica. His has finished the third volume, and is now on the fourth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 3/6/1885 | See Source »

...classical subjects of chief interest treated of in the forthcoming volume of the Encyclopedia Brittanica are Lucretius and Martial by Prof. Sellars, Lucian by Mr. Paley, Lysias by Professor Jebb...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/7/1883 | See Source »

...table of the principal libraries of the world, in the latest volume of the Encyclopedia Brittanica, the volumes accredited to the principal college libraries are as follows: Cambridge (Eng.) University Library, 200,000, besides a total of 266,500 volumes belonging to the separate college libraries; Trinity College, Dublin. 192,000; Edinburg University, 140,000; Glasgow University, 125,000; University College, London, 100,000; Oxford Bodleian, 400,000, besides a total of 306,000 among the several colleges; British Museum, 1, 500,000; Sarbonne (Paris), 125,000; Berlin University, 200,000; Bonn, 225,000; Breslaw University, 350,000; Erlanger University...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COLLEGE LIBRARIES. | 10/11/1882 | See Source »

Swinburne is writing the article on Mary Stuart for the Encyclopaedia Brittanica...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CURRENT LITERATURE. | 5/1/1882 | See Source »

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