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Title: Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1

Author: Various

Release Date: October 8, 2004 [EBook #13600]

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THE ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA - ELEVENTH EDITION

FIRST edition, published in three volumes, 1768-1771.
SECOND edition, published in ten volumes, 1777-1784.
THIRD edition, published in eighteen volumes, 1788-1797.
FOURTH edition, published in twenty volumes, 1801-1810.
FIFTH edition, published in twenty volumes, 1815-1817.
SIXTH edition, published in twenty volumes, 1823-1824.
SEVENTH edition, published in twenty-one volumes, 1830-1842.
EIGHTH edition, published in twenty-two volumes, 1853-1860.
NINTH edition, published in twenty-five volumes, 1875-1889.
TENTH edition, ninth edition and eleven
supplementary volumes, 1902-1903.
ELEVENTH edition, published in twenty-nine volumes, 1910-1911.

THE ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA

A DICTIONARY OF ARTS, SCIENCES, LITERATURE AND GENERAL INFORMATION

ELEVENTH EDITION

VOLUME II

ANDROS to AUSTRIA

[E-Text Edition of Volume II - Part 01 of 16 - ANDROS to ANISE]

INITIALS USED IN VOLUME II. TO IDENTIFY INDIVIDUAL CONTRIBUTORS, WITH
THE HEADINGS OF THE ARTICLES IN THIS VOLUME SO SIGNED.

[Note: Listing adjusted to E-Text Edition of Volume II, Part 01. The
full list of contributors appear in the complete E-text Edition of
Volume II. A complete list of all contributors to the encyclopaedia,
appears in the final volume.]

A.B.R. - ALFRED BARTON RENDLE, F.R S F.L.S. D.Sc. Keeper of the
Department of Botany, British Museum.

- ANGIOSPERMS

C.Pl. - REV. CHARLES PLUMMER, M.A. Fellow of Corpus Christi College,
Oxford. Ford's Lecturer, 1901. Author of _Life and Times of Alfred the
Great_; &c.

- ANGLO-SAXON CHRONICLE

E.O. - ED