Transcriber's notes:
(1) Numbers following letters (without space) like C2 were originally printed in subscript. Letter subscripts are preceded by an underscore, like C_n.
(2) Characters following a carat (^) were printed in superscript.
(3) Side-notes were relocated to function as titles of their respective paragraphs.
(4) Macrons and breves above letters and dots below letters were not inserted.
(5) [root] stands for the root symbol; [alpha], [beta], etc. for greek letters.
(6) The following typographical errors have been corrected:
ARTICLE LATIN LANGUAGE: "... this is the most convenient place in which to state briefly the very little that can be said as yet to have been ascertained as to the general relations of Italic to its sister groups." 'that' amended from 'than'.
ARTICLE LATIN LANGUAGE: "... (which had been gradually noted, see e.g. F. Skutsch in Kroll's Altertumswissenschaft im letzten Vierteljahrhundert, 1905) their actual effect on the language." 'im' amended from 'in'.
ARTICLE LATIN LITERATURE: "... from the name of its greatest literary representative, whose activity as a speaker and writer was unremitting during nearly the whole period." 'speaker' amended from 'peaker'.
ARTICLE LATIUM: "See G. A. Colini in Bullettino di paletnologia Italiana, xxxi. (1905)." 'paletnologia' amended from 'palentologia'.
ARTICLE LA TOUR D'AUVERGNE, THÉOPHILE MALO: "In 1784 he was promoted captain, and in 1791 he received the cross of St Louis." '1784' amended from '1748'.
ARTICLE LAVOISIER, ANTOINE LAURENT: "... his collaborators in the reformed system of chemical terminology set forth in 1787 in the Méthode de nomenclature chimique, were among the earliest French converts ..." 'nomenclature' amended from 'momenclature'.
ARTICLE LAVOISIER, ANTOINE LAURENT: "Under the head of 'oxidable or acidifiable' substances, the combination of which with oxygen yielded acids, were placed sulphur, phosphorus, carbon, and the muriatic, fluoric and boracic radicals." 'radicals' amended from 'radicles'.
ARTICLE LEATHER: "... and thickly split, the poorer hides being utilized for chamois; they are now re-split at the fatty strata so that all fat may be easily removed, and while the grains are dressed as skivers ..." 'utilized' amended from 'ultilized'.
ARTICLE LEAVENWORTH: "The fort, from which the city took its name, was built in 1827, in the Indian country, by Colonel Henry Leavenworth (1783-1834) of the 3rd Infantry, for the protection of traders plying between the Missouri river and Santa Fé." 'Santa' amended from 'Sante'.
ARTICLE LECTOURE: "In 1473 Cardinal Jean de Jouffroy besieged the town on behalf of Louis XI. and after its fall put the whole population to the sword." 'population' amended from 'pupulation'.
ARTICLE LEEUWENHOEK, ANTHONY VAN: "... and a selection from them was translated by S. Hoole and published in English (London, 1781-1798)." '1781-1798' amended from '1798-1781'.
ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA
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