. DISCOVERY A MONTHLY POPULAR JOURNAL or KNOWTLLDGE No. 7. JULY 1920. PRICE 6d. NET. DISCOVERY. A Monthly Popular Journal of know- Edited by A. S. Russell, , , 4 Moreton Road, Oxford, to whom all Editorial Communications should be addressed. Published by John Murray, 50A Albemarle Street, London, , to whom all Business Communications should be addressed. Advertisement Office: 16 Regent Street, London, Annual Subscription, post free: Inland 8s. 6d.; Abroad •js. 6d. Single numbers 6d. net ; postage, Inland 2\d.; Abroad ild. Editorial Notes The Oxford University Press General Cat
. DISCOVERY A MONTHLY POPULAR JOURNAL or KNOWTLLDGE No. 7. JULY 1920. PRICE 6d. NET. DISCOVERY. A Monthly Popular Journal of know- Edited by A. S. Russell, , , 4 Moreton Road, Oxford, to whom all Editorial Communications should be addressed. Published by John Murray, 50A Albemarle Street, London, , to whom all Business Communications should be addressed. Advertisement Office: 16 Regent Street, London, Annual Subscription, post free: Inland 8s. 6d.; Abroad •js. 6d. Single numbers 6d. net ; postage, Inland 2\d.; Abroad ild. Editorial Notes The Oxford University Press General Catalogue for 1920 has been sent me, and the announcement regard- ing the Dictionary of National Biography and the account of the Oxford Dictionary will be of interest to readers. The Dictionary of National Biography was presented recently to the University by the family of the founder, the late George M. Smith. This, the largest of all national collections of biographies, was designed and the sole responsibility of its production undertaken by the late George M. Smith in 1882. It appeared in quarterly volumes from January i, 1885, to Midsummer 1900: Volumes I-XXI under the editorship of Leslie Stephen, XXII- XXVII under the joint editorship of Mr. Stephen and Mr. Sidney Lee, and XXVII-LXIII (from H to Z) under the sole editorship of Mr. Lee, now Sir Sidney Lee. In order to include notable persons who died during the progress of the work, a Supplement in three volumes (LXIV-LXVI) was pubUshed in 1901-2, the date of Queen Victoria's death, January 22, 1901, being taken as its limit. These sixty-six volumes were reprinted, with corrections, on thinner paper in 1908 and 1909 and reissued in twenty-two volumes. The statistical account prefixed to the first volume, and the Memoir of George M. Smith which follows the Preface to Vol. XXII, give particulars of the distri- bution among the centuries of the lives—more than thirty thousand in number—of the persons commem-
Size: 1880px × 2658px
Photo credit: © The Bookworm Collection / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookleafnumber255, booksponsoruniversityofto, booksubjectscience
