CALGARY

calgary, the oldest city in the province of alberta. pop. (1901) 4091; (1907) 21,112. it is situated in 114° 15' w., and 51° 41⁄2' n., on the bow river, which flows with its crystal waters from the pass in the rocky mountains, by which the main line of the canadian pacific railway crosses the rocky mountains. the pass proper--kananaskis--penetrates the mountains beginning 40 m. west of calgary, and the well-known watering-place, banff, lies 81 m. west of it, in the canadian national park. the streets are wide and laid out on a rectangular system. the buildings are largely of stone, the building stone used being the brown laramie sandstone found in the valley of the bow river in the neighbourhood of the city. calgary is an important point on the canadian pacific railway, which has a general superintendent resident here. it is an important centre of wholesale dealers, and also of industrial establishments. calgary is near the site of fort la jonquiere founded by the french in 1752. old bow fort was a trading post for many years though now in ruins. the present city was created by the building of the canadian pacific railway about 1883. * * * * * corrections made to printed original. p. 795, bulow, hans guido von: "married in his twenty-eighth year": 'twenty-eight' in original. p. 843, internal communications: "a great deal of road construction": 'constuction' in original. p. 854, "italian work saggi sul ristabilimento...": 'saggj' in original. p. 884, 6th para: "throughout the whole of the analogy it is manifest": 'manfest' in original. p. 894, buys ballot's law: "takes its name from c.h.d. buys ballot": 'ballott' in original. p. 904, 4th para: "additions to already existing types": 'exsiting' in original. p. 905, biographies etc: prisoner of chillon and other poems, edited by e. kolbing (1896): '1869' in original, the place in this list implies 1896 and other sources support this. p. 914, cabasilas, nicolaus: "a speech against usurers": 'againt' in original. p. 970, 3rd para: "coloured by cobalt": 'colbalt' in original. p. 976, 1st equation: "p = 1⁄2 l2/c w": the = sign is printed vertically in original. p. 979, 11th piece of text: "a_2 is proportional to the roll of w_2": 'roll of w_2' in original: but properly w_2 is the wheel, w_2 is the measure of its roll. p. 996, table iii: column 11 begins 20-17-19-17-16 in original, this should be 20-19-18-17-16 (as described earlier, the columns are arranged in the order of the natural numbers, beginning at the bottom and proceeding to the top of the column.) p. 997, table iv: nov 27. contains "25'24" in original: according to the text, 25 beside 24 should not be accented. p. 999 condition "when e < 24": 'when < 24' in original. p. 1000, table vii: 5620 shown starting "29 sept. 1858" in original: must be 1859.