. Collier's new encyclopedia : a loose-leaf and self-revising reference work ... with 515 illustrations and ninety-six maps. educated at Columbia Uni-versity and for a time served in the dip-lomatic service as Secretary of Legationat St. Petersburg. He resigned fromthe service on account of ill health. Hebecame interested in the treatment ofdomestic animals and succeeded in 1866,in the face of great opposition, in in-corporating the American Society forthe Prevention of Cruelty to continued to agitate for the passageof laws to protect animals and by 1886such laws had been adopted i
. Collier's new encyclopedia : a loose-leaf and self-revising reference work ... with 515 illustrations and ninety-six maps. educated at Columbia Uni-versity and for a time served in the dip-lomatic service as Secretary of Legationat St. Petersburg. He resigned fromthe service on account of ill health. Hebecame interested in the treatment ofdomestic animals and succeeded in 1866,in the face of great opposition, in in-corporating the American Society forthe Prevention of Cruelty to continued to agitate for the passageof laws to protect animals and by 1886such laws had been adopted in 39 Statesof the Union and in other countries. He also founded the Society for the Preven-tion of Cruelty to Children. He wrotemany plays and a volume of tales andsketches. He died in 1888. BERGSON, HENRI LOUIS, a Frenchphilosopher, bom in Paris in 1859. Hewas educated in the public schools ofthat city, graduating in 1881 from theEcole Normal. Following some years ofteaching he was appointed to the chairof philosophy in the College de the following year he was elected tothe Institute and was elected a member. HENRI LOUIS BERGSON of the Academy of 1914. He deliveredin 1913 a series of lectures in ColumbiaUniversity and at the same time receivedthe degree of Litt. D. from that institu-tion. His writings became widely popu-lar and many of them weie translatedinto English. Among these were Timeand Free Will, Matter and Memory,Laughter, Creative Evolution, AnIntroduction to Metaphysics. BERHAMPUR, the name of two In-dian towns: (1) A town and militarystation in the N. E. portion of Madraspresidency, the headquarters of Gan-jam district, with a trade in sugarand manufactures of silks. Pop. about30,000. (2) A municipal town and theadministrative headquai-ters of Mur-Shidabad district, Bengal. It was thescene of the first overt act of mutiny in1857. Pop. about 25,000. BERIBERI, BERIBERIA, BERRI-BERRI, or BARBIERS, an acute dis-ease characterized by oppression oi BEBINO 494 B
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