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Title: The Americana; a universal reference library, comprising the arts and sciences, literature, history, biography, geography, commerce, etc., of the world
Year: 1908 (1900s)
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Subjects: Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Publisher: New York : Scientific American Compiling Dept.
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larly divided into manywhorled branches. All told there are about 15,000 species of sea-weeds, of which about 1,000 are blue greenslimes; 8,000 to 10,000 green seaweeds; 1,000 to1,500 brown seaweeds; 2,000 to 2,500 red sea-weeds; 100 to 200 stoneworts. Charles E. Bessey,University of Nebraska. Seawell, sewel, Molly Elliot, Americanauthor: b. Gloucester County, Va., 23 Oct. i860.Being thrown upon her own resources, in 1886,she began writing stories and sketches; withher Little Jarvis* she took a prize of $500 in1890 offered by The Youths Companion, andwith The Sprightly Romance of Marsac in1895 took the prize of $3,000 ofTered by the NewYork Herald. Among her published books are:Midshipman Paulding (1891) ; Paul Jones(1892); Decatur and Somers> (1894): <AStrange, Sad Comedy (1895) : <A VirginiaCavalier (i8y6); Children of Destiny (1903). Seay, sa, Abraham J., American soldierand politician: b. .Amherst County, Va., 28 Nov.1832. He entered the Federal army as a private SEAWEEDS
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SEBACEOUS GLANDS —SEBASTIAN in i86i, and served in 28 battles and skirmishesand rose to the rank of colonel. In 1872 and1874 he was the unsuccessful candidate for Con-gress; was a circuit judge 1875-7, and Republi-can nominee for judge of the Court of Appeals,eastern district, Ohio, in 1888. He was the su-preme judge of Oklahoma 1890-2, and governorof that territory in 1892-3, when he was re-moved by President Cleveland. Sebaceous Glands, small structures ofglandular nature and sacculated form which ex-ist in the substance of the corium, or deep layerof the dermis or true skin. They are very gen-erally distributed over the entire skin-surface,but are most numerous in the face and scalp.Those of the nose are of large size, and may fre-quently become enlarged from the accumulatedsecretion of the glands; while the largest inthe body are the sebaceous glands of the eyelids,the Meibomian glands (see Eye). Around theorifices of the mouth and anus, nose, and ex-ternal ear, these glands are

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