and at the same time to serve independently as an annual work of reference, the single alphabetical arrangement has been adopted, and the topics have generally been placed under their own heads rather than grouped under titles which could be ascertained only by reference to the table of contents. This seemed best suited to the double office which the book was intended to fulfil—namely, that of a year book and of a cyclopædia appendix. UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS, May 9, 1900. Frank Moore Colby. United States Ethnologist, Bureau of American Ethnology. JAMES MORTON PATON, PH.D., Associate Professor of Greek, Wesleyan University. ALBERT WARREN FERRIS, A.M., M.D., PHYSICS FINE ARTS AMERICAN ARCHÆOLOGY Assistant in Neurology, Vanderbilt Clinic, Columbia University. MARCUS BENJAMIN, PH.D., GEOLOGY S ANTHROPOLOGY United States National Museum. FREDERICK TABOR COOPER, PH.D., - CONTINENTAL LITERATURES HUTCHINS HAPGOOD, · DRAMA EDWARD LATHROP ENGLE, B. A., BIOGRAPHY AND GAZETTEER MATTER GEORGE J. HAGAR, UNITED STATES GAZETTEER MATTER WILLIAM THOMPSON HOWELL, B.S., GAZETTEER MATTER, SPORTS, etc. |
