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The system of diacritical marks used in the Bibliographies

and the Index (with square brackets), as well

as in the English translations of original French and

Russian texts, does not strictly follow any one specific

scholar, to the exclusion of all others. While adhering

to a very large extent to Sir Monier-Williams’ ''Sanskrit-English

Dictionary'', as for instance in the case of the

Anusvâra, the transliteration adopted includes forms introduced

by other Sanskrit scholars as well, being therefore

of a selective nature.

It should also be noted that the diacritical mark for

a long “a” was in the early days a circumflex, and therefore

all of H.P.B.’s writings embody this sound in the  

form of “â.” No change has been made from this earlier

notation to its more modern form of the “macron,” or

line over the “a.” Such a change would have necessitated

too many alterations, and almost certainly would have

produced confusion; therefore the older usage has been

adhered to throughout.

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The material contained in the following pages is of necessity a selective one, and is intended to serve three purposes: (a) to give condensed information, not otherwise readily available, about the life and writings of some individuals mentioned by H. P. B. in the text, and who are practically unknown to the present-day student; (b) to give similar data about a few well-known scholars who are discussed at length by H. P. B., and whose writings she constantly quotes; and (c) to give full information regarding all works and periodicals quoted or referred to in the main text and in the Compiler’s Notes, with or without biographical data of their authors. All such works are marked with an asterisk (*).

'''Acilius Glabrio'''. Roman tribune of the plebs, 201 b.c., when he opposed the claim of Cn. Corn. Lentulus, one of the consuls of that year, to the province of Africa, which a unanimous vote of the tribes had already decreed to P. Scipio Africanus I. The following years, Glabrio was appointed commissioner of sacred rites {decemvir sacrorurn). He was praetor in 196 b.c. and praetor peregrinus the next year. He became consul in 191 b.c., the year Rome declared war against Antiochus the Great, king of Syria. In the allotment of the provinces, Greece, the seat of war, fell to Glabrio. He was eminently successful in this campaign, and won a decisive victory over the armies of Antiochus at Thermopylae.

'''Agrippa of Nettesheim, Heinrich Cornelius (1486?-1535)'''. *De occulta philosophia libri tres, Beringo Fratres, Lugduni, 1533.— Three Books of Occult Philosophy. Transl. by J.F., London, 1650.

'''Aldrovandi, Ulysse'''. One of the most distinguished Italian naturalists of the 16th century; b. at Bologna, Sept. 11, 1522; d. May 10, 1605. Educated partly in native city and partly at Padua. Arrested as heretic at Rome, 1549. After liberation, wrote treatise on statuary. Took degree in medicine at Univ, of Bologna. From 1560, occupied there chairs of botany and natural history, practising medicine for some time. Established botanical garden at Bologna, 1567, and organized museum of nat. hist.; aroused interest in natural sciences when it was neglected, and was the first one to make a real herbarium; travelled widely. His chief work on nat. hist, is Ornithologia (Bologna, 1599-1603. 12 vols.), of which five vols. were prepared during his life, and seven were published after his death. His collections were given by will to the Senate of Bologna, and became the germ of the {{Page aside|356}}great Museum of that city. Many of his MSS. and drawings are in the Library of Bologna. Other works: De animalibus insectis libri septem. Francofurti: I. Hoferi, 1623.—De piscibus libri V, etc., 1613.