JOHNSON'S (REVISED) UNIVERSAL CYCLOPÆDIA: A SCIENTIFIC AND POPULAR TREASURY OF USEFUL KNOWLEDGE. ILLUSTRATED WITH MAPS, PLANS, AND ENGRAVINGS. EDITORS-IN-CHIEF. FREDERICK A. P. BARNARD, S. T. D., LL.D., L. H. D., M. N. A. S., PRESIDENT OF COLUMBIA COLLEGE, NEW YORK; ARNOLD GUYOT, PH.D., LL.D., M. N. A. S., PROFESSOR OF GEOLOGY AND PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY, COLLEGE OF NEW JERSEY. ASSOCIATE EDITORS. MARTIN B. ANDERSON, A. M., LL.D., President of the University of Rochester, N. Y.; Col. U.S. Engineers, Bvt. Major-Gen. U. S. A.; President of Beloit College, Wisconsin; HENRY DRISLER, A. M., LL.D., Jay Professor of Greek, Columbia College; OCTAVIUS B. FROTHINGHAM, A. M., Late Pastor Third Unitarian Society, N. Y. City; Prof. of Zoology, Columbian University, Washington, D. C.; Fisher Professor of Natural History, Harvard University; Founder of the New York Tribune; Ed. of The Journal of Speculative Phil., St. Louis, Mo.; Late Secretary of Smithsonian Institution; JOHN LE CONTE, A. M., M. D., LL.D., S. B. LUCE, Prof. of Physics, Univ. of California; GEORGE P. MARSH, LL.D., M. N. A. S., Late Minis. Plenipo. of U. S. at Rome, Italy; JOHN S. NEWBERRY, M. D., LL.D., M. N. A. S., Professor of Surgery, Columbia College, Med. Dept.; Baldwin Prof. of Sacred Lit., Union Theol. Sem., N. Y.; Librarian of Congress; WILLIAM STAUNTON, S. T. D., Of Georgia, Member 43d Congress, U. S. A.; Formerly Editor of the Methodist, New York; Late Professor of Syst. Theol., Vanderbilt Univ., Tenn.; Vice-Provost of the University of Penn.; ASSISTANT EDITORS. PORTER C. BLISS, A. M., L. P. BROCKETT, A. M., M. D., George CHASE, LL.B., CLARENCE Cook, Complete in Eight Royal Octavo Volumes, including Appendix, VOL. VI. ONION SALT. (TESTIMONIALS AT THE END OF LAST VOLUME.) NEW YORK: A. J. JOHNSON & CO., 11 GREAT JONES STREET, NEAR BROADWAY. M. T. BROWN, DAVENPORT, IA. MDCCCLXXXVI. сус ye 418,10 COPPER-PLATE MAPS ESPECIALLY ENGRAVED FOR JOHNSON'S CYCLOPÆDIA. ENTERED ACCORDING TO ACT OF CONGRESS, IN THE YEAR ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND EIGHTY-SIX, BY A. J. JOHNSON & CO., IN THE OFFICE OF THE LIBRARIAN OF CONGRESS, AT WASHINGTON. PRINTED BY BURR PRINTING HOUSE, 18 JACOB ST., New York. HOUND BY JOHN SOMERVILLE, New York. ORGANIZATION OF THE EDITORIAL STAFF. The following statement shows the subjects to which the different members of the Editorial Staff have severally given their more particular attention, not only in themselves preparing articles relating to those subjects, but also in securing contributions from others, and in carefully scrutinizing all such contributions with a view both to ensure accuracy and to exclude anything which might seem objectionable. Mathematics, Applied Science, Protestant Episcopal Church, Education, etc. FRED. A. P. BARNARD. Physical Geography, Foreign Geography, Climatology, etc. Military Engineering, Science and Material of War, Biographies, etc. ARNOLD GUYOT.* THEODORE GILL. WILLIAM P. TROWBRIDGE. Philosophical and Church Dogmatics; Lutheran Church-Biographies, etc. CHARLES P. KRAUTH.* The names of the following gentlemen-J. G. Barnard, Horace Greeley, Arnold Guyot, S. 8. Haldeman, Joseph Henry, C. P. Krauth, George P. Marsh, Willard Parker, Alexander H. Stephens, Thomas O. Summers-have been, with justice, retained upon the Editorial Stoff, as their latest labors were given to this work. |