Punctuation, hyphenation, and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in this book; otherwise they were not changed.

Simple typographical errors were corrected; occasional unbalanced quotation marks retained.

Ambiguous hyphens at the ends of lines were retained.

Text uses both “angakok” and “angakut”; both retained.

Page 561: Footnote ‘A’ was not referenced in the text; Transcriber attributed it to the title of the article.

Page 564: Transcriber’s transliteration of Greek text shown in {curly braces}.

Page 575: “milkrosomen” was printed that way.

Page 577: Text uses both “Quan-si” and “Quansi”; both retained.

Page 580: “grewsome” was printed that way.

Page 588: “where in 1861” was printed that way, but likely is a misprint, perhaps for “1681”, as the next paragraph says that the plague disappeared from Europe in the eighteenth century.

Pages 601, 602: use both “Vallee” and “VallÉe”; both retained.

Page 645: “Moreever” was printed that way.

Pages 669, 672: “Wood’s Holl” was spelled that way when this issue of the magazine was published.

Page 672: Missing page reference “76” added to “Vickery” entry, based on examination of the May, 1900 issue.

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