CO1STTRIBUTOKS. 



[mong the Contributors to this Volume of the '"Annual Cyclopaedia" are the following : 



Oscar Fay Adams, 



Author of " A Dictionary of American Authors," etc. 



COOLEY, THOMAS MC!NTYRE, 

 DODGSON, CHARLES LUTWIDGE, 

 EBERS, GEORG MORITZ, 

 JOHNSTON, RICHARD MALCOLM, 

 PAYN, JAMES, 

 PERRY, WILLIAM STEVENS, 

 and other articles. 



Francis Bellamy. 

 BELLAMY, EDWARD. 



Marcus Benjamin, Ph. D., 



Editor of United States National Museum. 



ASSOCIATIONS FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE, 

 HALL, JAMES, 



NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, 

 NEW YORK STATE, 

 ROGERS, WILLIAM AUGUSTUS, 

 and other articles. 



J. H. A. Bone, 



Of the "Cleveland Plain-Dealer." 

 OHIO. 



John Henry Boner, 



Of the " Standard Dictionary " staff. 



ALABAMA. 

 ARIZONA, 

 IDAHO. 



NEW MEXICO, 

 NORTH CAROLINA, 

 MISSISSIPPI, 

 MISSOURI, 

 and other articles. 



Arthur E. Bostwick, Ph. D., 



Librarian of the Brooklyn Library. 

 LIQUEFIED AIR, 

 PHYSICS, 

 TELEGRAPHY, WIRELESS. 



Thomas Campbell-Copeland, 



Author of the " American Colonial Handbook." 

 SAMPSON, WILLIAM THOMAS, 

 SHAFTER, WILLIAM RUFUS, 

 UNITED STATES MILITARY RECORD. 



Mrs. Helen C. Candee. 



SETTLEMENTS, SOCIAL. 



James P. Carey, 



Formerly Financial Editor of the "Journal of Com- 

 merce." 



FINANCIAL REVIEW OF 1898. 



John Denison Champlin, 



Editor of " Cyclopedia of Painters and Paintings." 

 FINE ARTS IN 1898. 



Hon. Benjamin F. Clayton, 



Ex-President of the Farmers' Congress. 



FARMERS' CONGRESS. 



Charles Henry Cochrane, 



Author of " The Wonders of Modern Mechanism." 



LIGHTHOUSES, 



REFRIGERATING AND ICE-MAKING, 



STEEL BUILDINGS. 



Mrs. Bessie Nicholls Croffut. 

 LITERATURE, AMERICAN, IN 1898, 

 LITERATURE, BRITISH, IN 1898, 

 RESERVATIONS, INDIAN. 



Mrs. Fredericka B. Gilchrist. 



PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH. 



Rev. William Elliot Griffis, D. D., 



Formerly Professor of Physics in the University of 

 Tokio. 



JAPAN, 

 KOREA. 



George J. Hag-ar, 



Associate Editor of the "Columbian Cyclopaedia." 

 GIFTS AND BEQUESTS, 

 OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. 



Rev. Moses Harvey, 



Author of "Text-book of Newfoundland History." 

 NEWFOUNDLAND. 



Elwood Haynes. 



GAS, NATURAL. 



J. Castell Hopkins, 



Author of "Encyclopaedia of Canada." 

 BRITISH COLUMBIA, 

 CANADA, DOMINION OF, 

 MANITOBA, 

 NEW BRUNSWICK, 

 ONTARIO, 

 QUEBEC, 



YUKON DISTRICT, 

 and other Canadian articles. 



Frank Huntington, 



Of the " Standard Dictionary " staff. 

 AFGHANISTAN, 

 ARGENTINE REPUBLIC, 

 AUSTRIA-HUNGARY, 

 BELGIUM, 

 BRAZIL, 

 CAPE COLONY, 

 DENMARK, 

 EGYPT, 

 FRANCE, 

 GERMANY, 

 HAWAII, 

 INDIA, 



PHILIPPINE ISLANDS, 

 TURKEY, 

 and other articles. 



W. Alleyne Ireland, 



Author of " Demerara." 

 WEST INDIES. 



