International encyclopaedic dictionary

A new, original and exhaustive work of reference to all english words, their origin, development, orthography, pronunciation, meaning, and legitimate or customary use. Being also a comprehensive encyclopaedia of all the arts and sciences, with condensed encyclopaedic definitions of 50,000 important words and topics

With numerous illustrations. Edited by Robert Hunter, A.M., F.G.S. and prof. Charles Morris. With the assistance of the following eminent specialists: Prof. Thomas H. Huxley, F.R.S.; prof. Richard A. Proctor; prof. A. Estoclet; John A. Williams, A. B., Trinity College, Oxford; sir John Stainer, mus. doc.; John Francis Walker, A.M., F.C.S.; T. Davies, F.G.S.; prof. Seneca Egbert, H.D., Medico-Chirugical College, Philadelphia; William Harkness, F.I.C., F.R.M.S.; Marcus Benjamin, Ph.D., Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.; William C. Hunt, Washington, D.C.; and one hundred others