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ACIDULATED SPRINGS, xvi. 436. ACINACES, Persian sword, I. 98. ACINETARIA, class of Protozoa, xix.
865; xxiv. 812.
ACIPENSER, genus of fishes, xxil. 611. ACIREALE, town, Sicily, I. 97; xxn. 31. Acis, in mythology, I. 98. ACKEN, town, Prussia, I. 435. ACKERMANN, Johann C. G., German
physician, I. 98. ACMITE, mineral, XVI. 416. ACNE, skin disease, xxn. 121. ACNODE, in geometry, vi. 723; xxn.
669.
ACCELA, tribe of worms, xix. 172, 174. ACCEMETVE, or Accemeti, order of monks,
I. 98; xvi. 700. ACOLHUAS, people, ancient Mexico, xvi.
209. ACOLYTE, order of clergy, i. 98; xvn.
820. ACONCAGUA, province, Chili, I. 98; v.
616.
, volcano, Chili, II. 16; v. 616.
ACONCIO, Giacomo, jurist and theolo gian, I. 98. ACONITE, genus of plants, I. 98 ; poison,
XIX. 279; extract of, in different
pharmacopoeias, xvill. 731. ACONTIID/E, family of lizards, XIV.
733-
ACONTIUS, jurist and theologian, I. 98.
ACORNS, Economic uses of, XVII. 692.
ACORUS, genus of plants, I. 99.
ACOSTA, Christoval d , Portuguese natu ralist, I. 99.
, Joseph d , Spanish writer, I. 99.
, Uriel d , Portuguese Jewish noble man, I. 99.
ACOTYLEDONES, class of plants, I. 99.
ACOTYLEDONOUS PLANTS, IV. 92.
ACOUSTICS, I. too ; of speech-organs, xvni. 811; xxiv. 273; in relation to telephony, XXIII. 127.
ACOUSTIC TRICKS, in magic, xv. 307.
ACQUAVIVA, Claudio, general of the Jesuits, xin. 651, 653.
ACQUI, town, Italy, I. 120; mineral water of, xvi. 434.
ACQUISITIVENESS, in phrenology, xvm. 845.
ACRA, town, Gold Coast, Africa, I. 92 ; race and language, X. 756.
A.CRJE, Syracusan settlement, Sicily, xxn. 814; xvm. 167.
ACRE, measure of surface, I. 120.
, or St Jean d Acre, town, Syria, I.
120; capture of, by Saladin (1191), vn. 754; xxin. 161; Knights Hospital lers at, xxi. 174 ; Napoleon s repulse at (1799), xvn. 201; xxn. 179.
ACREDULA, genus of birds, xxm. 419.
ACROBAT, i. 120.
ACROBATA, genus of phalangers, xvm. 729.
ACROCEPHALUS, genus of birds, xxiv. 366.
ACROCERAUNIA, promontory, Greece,
i. 120. ACROCERAUNIAN MOUNTAINS, Greece,
1. 447.
ACROCHORDID^E, family of snakes,
xxn. 193.
ACRODYNIA, toxic disease, xvm. 407. ACROGEN^E, or Acrogens, division of
plants, i. 120; iv. 99. ACROLEIN, a vapour from oils, xvn. 740. ACROLITH, in statuary, I. 120. ACROMYODI, group of birds, XVIII. 40,
47-
Ac RON, Sicilian physician, I. 120. ACROPOLIS, citadel, Athens, i. 121;
m. i, 5, 6. ACROPOLITA, Georgius, Byzantine
historian, IV. 613. ACROSTIC, i. 121.
ACROTERIUM, in architecture, 1 1. 459. ACRYDIID^E, family of insects, XL 60;
xm. 153; xiv. 765. ACT, in dramatic literature, I. 121.
, in law, I. 122.
OF CONGRESS, xxn. 471.
OF PARLIAMENT, i. 122; xvm.
313; xxn. 468. OF SEDERUNT, in Scots law, i.
123.
OF SETTLEMENT, of English crown, xxi. 696 ; in Isle of Man, xv.
454-
OF UNIFORMITY (1662), xix. 690.
ACTA CONSISTORII, Roman edicts, I.
128.
ACTA DIURNA, Roman gazette, I. 128. AdVEON, in mythology, I. 129. ACTA SANCTORUM, of the Bollandists,
iv. 1 8. ACTA SENATUS, minutes of the Roman
senate, I. 129. ACTA THOM^, apocryphal book, xxm.
308.
ACTE, peninsula, Macedonia, xv. 138. ACTIAN GAMES, at Rome, i. 129; xvn.
490. ACTIA NlCOPOLiS, town, ancient
Greece, xvn. 490. ACTING, dramatic art, vn. 391, 396; IX.
202, 209.
ACTINIA, genus of animals, I. 129. ACTINISM, property of solar rays, I.
129.
ACTINOLITE, mineral, xvi. 417. ACTINOMETER, thermometer for solar
rays, I. 129. ACTINOMYCOSIS, disease, xvm. 270 ;
in cattle, xxiv. 204. ACTINOPHRYS, genus of Protozoa, xix.
845. ACTINOSPH^ERIUM, genus of Protozoa,
xix. 845.
ACTINOTE, mineral, xvi. 417. ACTINOZOA, group of animals, I. 129;
VI. 369; VII. 277, 283; their relation
to Hydrozoa, xn. 548 ; skeletal struc ture of, xxn. 106.
ACTINURUS, genus of rotifers, xxi. 4.
ACTION, Chemical, v. 474.
, in law, i. 132; limitations of, xiv.
650; in Roman law, xx. 68 1, 707;
xix. 217. , Least and varying, in mechanics,
xv. 723 ; in optics, xiv. 598.
, Mental, xx. 42.
ACTIUM, in ancient geography, I. 133 ;
battle of (31 B.C.), I. 418; xx. 769.
, Era of, v. 716.
ACTON, village, England, I, 133. , Sir John F. E., Neapolitan com mander, I. 133; IX. 79. ACTORS, Dramatic, vn. 396; Chinese,
vii. 402 ; English, vii. 434, 437, 439 ;
Greek, vn. 408 ; Hindu, vn. 399 ;
Roman, vn. 411. ACTS OF THE APOSTLES, i. 123; in.
644; XXII. 79; apocryphal, II. 184. ACTS OF PETER AND PAUL, apocryphal
book, xvm. 696.
ACTUALITY, in psychology, xx. 55. ACTUARIES, Institute of, their mortality
tables, xm. 170. ACTUARY, i. 133. ACULEATA, group of insects, xm.
148. ACUNA, Christoval d , Spanish traveller,
I- 133- , Juan de, Spanish viceroy of
Mexico, xvi. 219. ACUPRESSURE, in surgery, I. 133. ACUPUNCTURE, in surgery, i. 133;
xxn. 673. ACUSIUM (Montelimar), ancient town,
France, xvi. 779. ADAFUDIA, town, Western Africa, I.
133-
ADAGIA, work of Erasmus, vm. 517. ADAH, wife of Lamech of Scripture,
xiv. 238. ADAI KHOKH, mountain, Caucasus, v.
253-
ADAL, country, Eastern Africa, I. 134. ADALBERO, archbishop of Rheims, xx.
508; xxn. 74. ADALBERT, archbishop of Bremen and
Hamburg, I. 134. , bishop of Prague, I. 134; xix.
286.
, marquises of Tuscany, xxm. 671.
ADALIA (Satali), town, Asia Minor, xxi.
317. ADAM, of Scripture, I. 134; in relation
to Eve, vm. 733 ; Manichsean view of,
xv. 483. , Life of, Jewish apocalyptic book,
n. 177. of Bremen, ecclesiastical historian,
i. 138. , Alexander, classical teacher, I.
139- , Melchior, German writer, I. 139;
xiv. 850. , Robert, Scottish architect, I. 139;
xiv. 850.