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Title: Collier's new encyclopedia : a loose-leaf and self-revising reference work ... with 515 illustrations and ninety-six maps
Year: 1921 (1920s)
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Subjects: Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Publisher: New York : P. F. Collier
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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olonel in1909 and in 1915 was in command of theMarine Barracks in Washington, D. C.He was appointed brigadier-general in1917 and for a time saw service inFrance. He was transferred to com-mand the Marine Corps Training Campat Quantico, Va., where he died in 1918.He commanded the first regiment ofmarines sent to France in 1917. He waswell-known as an expert in machinegunnery. DOYLE. SIR ARTHUR CONAN. aScotch story and romance writer; born inEdinburgh, May 22, 1859. He was care-fully trained for a physician, but went toLondon at 20 and adopted litei-ature as aprofession. His gi-eatest success waswon with the series of detective talesknown as the Sherlock Holmes stories:The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes,etc. He also wrote : The Adventures ofBrigadier Gerard (1895), a Napoleonic 27—Vol. Ill—€yo DBAC^NA 414 DRACONTIUM romance: The Stark Munro Letters(1895); Uncle Bernac (1897); TheTragedy of the Korosko (1898) ; Songsof Action (1898); Sir Nigel (1906);Songs of the Road (1911); A Lost
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SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE World (1912); Valley of Fear(1915); His Last Bow (1918); His-tory of the Great War (1918-1919), etc. DRAC^NA, a genus of Liliacex,tribe Asparagess. Formerly, the genuswas so defined as to include nearly orquite 30 species. The well-known D.draco, or dragon-tree, requires to bestudied in its native country, the CanaryIslands. Commencing as an unbranchedendogen with linear entire evergreensheathing leaves, which leave annularscars as they fall annually, it continuesto advance slowly to maturity, the proc-ess, it is said, taking 25 to 30 years.Then the leaf scars are gradually oblit-erated, and branches begin to be putforth. Next a glorious panicle of in-florescence appears at the apex of thestem, the individual flowers of which,however, are small and greenish white.At an indefinitely long period it beginsto decay. The celebrated dragon-tree ofTeneriffe was one of the wonders of theworld. Bethencourt in 1402 or 1406 de-scribed it as old and hollow. It hadchanged bu

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