OVER 44 MILLION WORDS! (equivalent of 440 good-sized novels)

  OVER 40,000 ARTICLES

  OVER 30,000 PAGES

  OVER 1,500 CONTRIBUTORS

  327 Historians
  168 Fellows of the Royal Society
  161 Theologists
  126 Ministers, diplomats or government officials
  107 Biologists and Agriculturists
    53 Presidents or Secretaries of Learned Societies
    47 Members of Parliament
    53 Members of Staff of similar institutions
    47 Staff members of various laboratories and observatories, and
            dozens of sociologists, economists, geopgraphers, explorers,
            mathematicians, physicists, meteorologists, lawyers, physicians,
            surgeons, engineers, architects, businessmen, manufacturers,
            and naval and military officers

  NATIONALITIES OF CONTRIBUTORS

  England
  Scotland
  United States
  Germany
  France
  Canada
  Italy
  Austria-Hungary
  the Netherlands
  Japan
  India
  Belgium
  Australia
  Switzerland
  Serbia
  Norway
  Turkey
  Sweden
  Denmark

  SUBJECT CONTENTS ARE APPROXIMATELY:
  29% Geography
  17% Pure and Applied Science
  17% History
  11% Literature
    9% Fine Arts
    7% Social Sciences
    2% Psychology
    1% Philosophy