Among the Contributors to the Fifteenth Volume of the Revised Edition are the following : Prof. CLEVELAND ABBE, Washington, D. C. SNOW. STOKMS. TRADE WINDS. Bvt. Brig. Gen. HENRY L. ABBOT, U. S. A., Willet's Point, K Y. TOEPEDO. Hon. GEORGE BANCROFT, Washington, D. 0. SOUTHAMPTON, HENRY WRIOTUESLEY, EARL OF. WILLARD BARTLETT. SlNDE. TANGANYIKA. THIBET. Prof. 0. "W. BENNETT, D. D., Syracuse Univer- sity. SOULE, JOSHUA. STEONG, JAMES. SYRACUSE (University). JULIUS BING. SICILIES, STAEL-HOLSTEIN, Baroness de, TASSO, TOEQUATO, THIERS, Louis ADOLPIIE, and other articles in biography, geography, and history. Hon. JAMES BLACK, Lancaster, Pa. TOTAL ABSTINENCE. FRANCIS C. BOWMAN. SIVORI, ERNESTO CAMILLO. STEAIHVARI, ANTONIO. TlTJENS, TlIERESE. EDWARD L. BURLINGAME, Ph. D. STUAET, ARABELLA. Rev. CHARLES P. BUSH, D. D. SMITH, ELI. SYRIA (in part). C. H. CARTER, Waterbury, Conn. TOWN (in part). ROBERT CARTER. STEVENS, THADDEUS. STOEY, JOSEPH. SUMNEE, CHARLES. TAYLOE, ZACHAEY. JOHN D. CHAMPLIN, Jr. SHOMEE, JEBEL, SIBERIA, SLANG, SPAIN, SWEDEN, and other articles in biography and geography. Prof. E. H. CLARKE, M. D., Harvard Univer- sity. SQUILL, STRYCHNIA, and other articles in materia medica, Hon. T. M. COOLEY, LL. D., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. SLAVERY (in part), TANEY, ROGER BROOKE, TAXES, and other legal articles. Prof. E. CURTIS, M. D., College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York. SPECTACLES. Rev. S. S. CUTTING, D. D. SLATER, SAMUEL. Prof. J. C. D ALTON, M. D., College of Physi- cians and Surgeons, New York. SMELL, STOMACH, TASTE, THORAX, and other medical and physiological articles. Rev. B. B. DRAKE. THEOPHYLACT, SIMOCATTA. THEOPHYLACT, AECHBISUOP. Prof. M. J. DRENNAN. SIEMENS, ERNST WERNER. SIEMENS, KARL WILUELM. SOUTH SEA SCHEME. EATON S. DRONE. SOUTH CAROLINA, STEAUSS, FAMILY OF, TENNESSEE, TRADE MASK, and other articles in American geography. Prof. THOMAS M. DROWN, M. D., Lafayette College, Easton, Pa. STEEL. ROBERT T. EDES, M. D., Harvard University. Articles in materia medica. W. M. FERRISS. TARGUMS, TRIGONOMETRY, and articles in biography and history. Prof. WILLARD FISKE, Cornell University, Itha- ca, N. Y. SWEDEN, LANGUAGE AND LITEEATUEE OF (in part). JOSEPH FITZGERALD. SILK. STOCKING. STEAW. Lieut. Com. HENRY H. GORRINGE, U. S. K, Washington, D. C. TARRAGONA. TENERIFFE. TRISTAN DA CUNHA. Prof. W. E. GRIFFIS, late of the Imperial Col- lege, Tokio, Japan. TOKIO. TOMOMI IWAKURA. Prof. JAMES MORGAN HART. TELL, WILLIAM. J. W. HA WES. SPRINGFIELD, Mass., Ohio, 111., and Mo., TEXAS, TRENTON, N. J., and other articles in American geography. Louis HEILPRIN. STATES GENERAL. THIRTY TEARS' WAE. M. HEILPRIN. SLAVONIA. TAUEUS. THEACE. Prof. JOSEPH HENRY, LL. D. SMITHSON, JAMES. SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION. G. A. HEWLETT, Shreveport, La. SHEEVEPORT. Prof. J. E. HILGARD, U. S. Coast Survey, Washington, D. C. TIDES.