The people's cyclopedia of universal knowledge

With numerous appendixes invaluable for reference in all departments of industrial life, with the pronunciation and orthography conformed to Webster's unabridged dictionary

Edited by W. H. de Puy, LL.D., assisted by the following editorial staff: Prof. Alpheus S. Packard, professor of zoology and geology in Brown University; Dudley Buck, composer and musician; Thomas Sargent Perry, late instructor in English literature at Harvard College; Daniel Dorchester, D.D., late U.S. supr. Of Indian schools; statistician and author; James M. Buckley, LL.D., author and editor; prof. Henry Martyn Paul, assistant astronomer U.S. Naval Observatory; Clarence Cook, art critic and author; Charles E. Sajous, M.D., Ph.D., editor Annual of universal medical sciences, etc.; George G. Reynolds, LL.D., judge of the City court, Nrooklyn, N. Y.; John Clark Ridpath, LL.D., author of Ridpath's histories, etc., R. A. Brock, secretary of Southern historical society, member of American and Royal historical associations, etc. Containing also three thousand five hundred illustrations and three hundred maps and charts. The latter delineating every portion of the known world. The work including a complete and indexed atlas of the globe