Chapter I: Front Matter

Transcriber's notes:

(1) Numbers following letters (without space) like C2 were originally
printed in subscript. Letter subscripts are preceded by an
underscore, like C_n.

(2) Characters following a carat (^) were printed in superscript.

(3) Side-notes were relocated to function as titles of their respective
paragraphs.

(4) Macrons and breves above letters and dots below letters were not
inserted.

(5) [root] stands for the root symbol; [alpha], [beta], etc. for greek
letters.

(6) The following typographical errors have been corrected:

ARTICLE INSCRIPTIONS: "Closely connected with South Arabia is
Abyssinia." 'with' amended from 'wth'.

ARTICLE INSCRIPTIONS: "Sanskrit figures first in one of the records
at Nasik of Rishabhadatta (Ushavadata) ..." 'Sanskrit' amended from
'Sankrit'.

ARTICLE INSPIRATION: "In Delphi the Pythia, the priestess who
delivered the oracles ..." 'Delphi' amended from 'Dephi'.

ARTICLE INTERPOLATION: "... and whose area and abscissa are so
related that either can be readily calculated when the other is
known." 'when' amended from 'with'.

ARTICLE INTESTACY: "Thus from son to father is one degree, to
grandfather two degrees, to brother two degrees, to uncle three
degrees, and so on." 'degrees' amended from 'degress'.

ARTICLE IPSWICH: "The museum, including an art gallery, contains
archaeological and ornithological collections, and a noteworthy
series of Red Crag fossils." 'of' amended from 'or'.

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VOLUME XIV, SLICE VI

Inscriptions to Ireland, William Henry

ARTICLES IN THIS SLICE:

INSCRIPTIONS INTROSPECTION
INSECT INTUITION
INSECTIVORA INULIN
INSECTIVOROUS PLANTS INVAR
INSEIN INVARIABLE PLANE
INSOMNIA INVENTORY
INSPIRATION INVERARAY
INSTALLATION INVERCARGILL
INSTALMENT INVERELL
INSTERBURG INVERKEITHING
INSTINCT INVERNESS
INSTITUTE INVERNESS-SHIRE
INSTITUTIONAL CHURCH INVERSION
INSTRUMENT INVERURIE
INSTRUMENTATION INVESTITURE
INSTRUMENT OF GOVERNMENT INVOICE
INSUBRES INVOLUTION
INSURANCE IO
INTAGLIO IODINE
INTELLECT IODOFORM
INTELLIGENCE IN ANIMALS IOLA
INTENDANT IOLITE
INTENT ION
INTERAMNA LIRENAS IONA
INTERCALARY IONIA (Asia Minor)
INTERCOLUMNIATION IONIA (Michigan, U.S.A.)
INTERDICT IONIAN ISLANDS
INTERDICTION IONIANS
INTERESSE TERMINI IONIAN SCHOOL OF PHILOSOPHY
INTEREST IOPHON
INTERFERENCE OF LIGHT I.O.U.
INTERIM IOVILAE
INTERLACED ARCHES IOWA
INTERLAKEN IOWA CITY
INTERLOPER IPECACUANHA
INTERNATIONAL, THE IPEK
INTERNATIONAL LAW IPHICRATES
INTERNATIONAL LAW (PRIVATE) IPHIGENEIA
INTERPELLATION IPSWICH (Queensland, Australia)
INTERPLEADER IPSWICH (Suffolk, England)
INTERPOLATION IPSWICH (Massachusetts, U.S.A.)
INTERPRETATION IQUIQUE
INTERREGNUM IQUITOS (Indian tribe)
INTERSTATE COMMERCE IQUITOS (city of Peru)
INTERVAL IRAK
INTESTACY IRAK-ARABI
INTESTINAL OBSTRUCTION IRAK-I-AJAMI
INTESTINE IRAN
INTOXICATION IRBIT
INTRA IRELAND, JOHN (English divine)
INTRADOS IRELAND, JOHN (American prelate)
INTRANSIGENT IRELAND, WILLIAM HENRY
INTRINSIC

INSCRIPTIONS (from Lat. _inscribere_, to write upon), the general term for writings cut on stone or metal, the subject matter of epigraphy. See generally WRITING and PALAEOGRAPHY. Under this heading it is convenient here to deal more specifically with four groups of ancient inscriptions, Semitic, Indian, Greek and Latin, but further information will be found in numerous separate articles on philological subjects. See especially CUNEIFORM, BABYLONIA AND ASSYRIA, SUMER, BEHISTUN, EGYPT (_Language and Writing_), ETHIOPIA, PHOENICIA, ARABIA, HITTITES, SABAEANS, MINAEANS, ETRURIA, AEGEAN CIVILIZATION, CRETE, CYPRUS, BRITAIN, SCANDINAVIAN LANGUAGES, TEUTONIC LANGUAGES, CENTRAL AMERICA: _Archaeology_, &c.