SOME OF THE CHIEF COOTKIBUTOKS TO APPLETONS' CYCLOPAEDIA OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. Adams, Charles Kendall, President of Cornell University. Allibone, S. Austin, Author " Dictionary of Authors." Amory, Thomas C., Author " Life of General Sullivan." etc. Baird, Henry Carey, Economist. Bancroft, George, Author " History of the United States." Bayard, Thomas F., Secretary of State. Beehler, William H., Lieutenant U. S. Xavy. Bigelow, John, Author " Life of Franklin," etc. Boker, George H., Poet, late Minister to Russia. Bradley, Joseph P., Justice United States Supreme Court. Brooks, Phillips, Author " Sermons in English Churches." Browne, Junius Henri, Journalist and Author. Buckley, James Monroe, Clergyman and Author. Carter, Franklin, President of Williams College. Chandler, William E., Ex-Secretary of the Navy. Conway, Moncure Daniel, Author "Idols and Ideals." Cooke, John Esten, Author "Life of Gen. Robert E. Lee." Cooper, Miss Susan Fenimore, Author " Rural Hours," etc. Coppee, Henry, Professor in Lehigh University, Pa. Coxe, Arthur Cleveland, P. E. Bishop of Westein New York. Cullum, Gen. George W., U. S. A., Author " Register of West Point Graduates," etc. Curtis, George Ticknor, Author " Life of James Buchanan," etc. Curtis, George William, Author and Editor. Ouster, Mrs. Elizabeth B., Author Tenting on the Plains." Davis, Jefferson, Ex-President Confederate States of America. Delafield, Maturin L.., Miscellaneous Writer. De Lancey, Edward F., Ex-President Genealogical and Biographical Society. Didier, Eugene Lemoine, Author " Life of Edgar Allan Poe." Dix, Morgan, Hector of Trinity Church, New York. Doane, William C., .P. E. Bishop of Albany. Draper, Lyman C., Secretarvof Wisconsin Historical Society. Egle, William Henry, Author " History of Pennsylvania." Ewell, Benjamin Stoddert, President of William and Mary College. Fiske, John, Author and Professor. Frothingham, Octavius Brooks, Author "Life of George Ripley." Gallatin, Albert H., Author and Professor Gayarre, Chanes E. A., Author " History of Louisiana." Gerry, Elbridge T., Member of New York Bar. Gilman, Daniel C., President of Johns Hopkins University. Gilmore, James Roberts, Author "Rear-Guard of the Revolution." Gleig, George Robert, Ex-Chaplain-General British Army. Greely, Gen. Adolphus W., U. S. A., chief Signal Officer. Greene, Capt. Francis Vinton, TI. S. A., Author "The Vicksburg Campaign." Griffis, William Elliot, Author " Life of Com. M. C. Perry." Hale, Edward Everett, Author " Franklin in France." Hart, Charles Henry, Author "Memoir of William H. Prescott," etc. Hay, John, Author "Life of Abraham Lincoln." Hayne, Paul H., Author and Poet. Headley, Joel Tyler, Author "Washington and his Generals." Henry, William Wirt, ( If the Virginia Historical Society. Higginson, Col. Thomas W., Author " History of the United States," etc. Hills, George Morgan, Author " History of the Church in Burlington, N. J." Holmes, Dr. Oliver Wendell, Author and Port Huntington, William E.., Rector of Grace Church, New York. Isaacs, Abram S., Journalist. Jay, John, Late Minister to Austria.