LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS USED IN PART II. 



N.B. In the following list of the contractions employed in the 

 alphabetical portion of this work, I have endeavoured, as far as I 

 am able, to identify the periodical and other works to which these 

 contractions refer. It must not however be supposed that all the 

 periodicals, here referred to, have been systematically consulted, 

 and the title of every appropriate memoir in them extracted. Many 

 of these titles have been obtained at second hand from works where 

 they are reprinted, and the original sources have not in every case 

 been accessible. This circumstance will also explain the fact 

 (which I cannot but regret) that so many different forms of abbre- 

 viation have been occasionally used to indicate one and the same 

 publication. This was perhaps unavoidable in a work which was 

 compiled by a variety of hands ; and to have rectified these diversi- 

 ties, and produced the desired uniformity, would have been a task 

 of immense labour. I must also add, that some of the works to 

 which references are made in Part II. are omitted in this list, but 

 they will in general be found under the author's name in the alpha- 

 betical series. 



The first column in the list contains the abbreviated forms, ar- 

 ranged alphabetically ; the second gives the place of publication, 

 and the No. attached to the work in Part I. ; and the last column 

 refers the reader to the page in Part I. where the title of the perio- 

 dical will be found at full length. H. E. S. 



