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Among the Contributors of New Articles to the Second Volume of the Revised
Edition are the following:
Henry Carey Baird, Philadelphia.
Bank.
WlLLARD BARTLETT. Benares. Bengal.
Prof. C. W. Bennett, D. D., Syracuse University.
Bascom, Henry Bidleman, D. D., LL. D. Benson, Joseph.
Julius Bing.
Becket, Thomas a, Berlin, Bismarck, Prince, and other articles in history and geography.
Francis C. Bowman.
Benedict, Sir Julius.
Bennett, Sir William Sterndale.
William T. Brigham, Esq., Boston.
Bamboo, Banana,
Bark, and other botanical articles.
Edward L. Burlingame, Ph. D.
Attica, Augustus, and articles in history, biography, and geography.
J. C. Carpenter, Baltimore. Baltimore.
Prof. E. H. Clarke, M. D., Harvard University.
Belladonna, and other articles of materia medica.
Hon. T. M. Cooley, LL. D., Ann Arbor, Mich.
Bail, Bankrupt, and other legal articles.
Prof. J. C. Dalton, M. D.
Blackman, George Curtis, M. D., and various medical and physiological articles.
Eaton S. Drone. Augusta, Ga., and other articles in American geography.
B. A. Fixkelstein.
Bagdad. Bashan. Bedouins. Bessarabia.
Alfred H. Guernsey.
Bartholomew, St., Massacre of.
Beecher Family.
Blake, William.
J. W. Hawes.
Atlanta, Ga.,
Birmingham. Conn., Pa., and Eng.,
Bloomington, III. and Ind., and other articles in American geography.
Charles L. Hogeboom, M. D.
Blasting. Blind, The. Boiling Point.
Prof. T. Sterry Hunt, LL. D., Mass. Tech.
Inst., Boston. Bloomary.
Prof. C. A. Joy, Ph. D., Columbia College,
New York. asphaltum, Barium, Bismuth, and other chemical articles.
Prof. S. Kneeland, M. D., Mass. Tech. Inst., Boston.
Bacterium, Black Fly, Blind Fish, and other articles in natural history.
James F. Lyman.
Benton, Thomas Hart. Bernadotte, Jean Baptiste Jule8.
Count L. F. de Pourtales, U. S. Coast
Survey.
Prof. R. H. Richards, Mass. Tech. Inst., Boston.
Prof. A. J. Schem.
Austro-Hungarian Monarchy. Bavaria.
John G. Shea. LL. D.
Articles on American Indians.
G. W. Soren, Esq. Assault, Attainder. Attorney General, and other legal articles.
P. H. Vander Weyde, M. D.
Atmosphere. Atmospheric Engine.
I. DE VeITELLE. Aymaras, Bogota.
and other articles in South American geography.
C. S. Weyman.
Bateman. Kate Josephine. Bierstadt. Albert.
Gen. James Grant "Wilson.
Bayard, James Asheton, and Family.
Prof. E. L. Youmans. Atomic Theory.
 
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