Wikipedia:Errors in the New International Encyclopedia that have been corrected in Wikipedia

The first edition of the New International Encyclopedia was published in 1902-04.[1] The preface to the first edition is dated New York, June, 1902.

The preface to the second edition is dated April, 1914.[2] The second edition is an enlarged edition.

Dodd, Mead and Company copyrighted its published material in these years: 1902, 1904, 1905, 1906, 1907, 1909, 1911, 1912, 1914. Another copyright date is 1924.[3] A supplement to the second edition had been prepared. The supplement contains entries for the years 1914 to 1924.

Dodd, Mead, and Company, Inc. copyrighted its published material in 1917, 1921, 1922.

National Academy (United States)

A prime source of an untrustworthy statement appears wherever the descriptive "National Academy" is produced. Several organizations were called "the National Academy" by writers.

• The American Academy of Arts and Sciences was founded in 1780.

• The National Academy of Design was founded in 1825.

• The United States National Academy of Sciences was founded in 1863.

• The American Academy of Arts and Letters was founded in 1904.

• • Daniel Chester French (1850-1931) was a member of the 1780 organization. Although he was known as a sculptor, he may have belonged to the 1904 organization since he was also a capable writer. Also, he was a highly-regarded and admired citizen.
  • Augustus Saint-Gaudens was a sculptor who belonged to both the 1780 and the 1904 organizations.

Board of Education entries

The expression "Board of Education" was a commonly-employed term in the United States for about 70 years (1870-1940). It referred to a unit of the Federal government whose official name was "Bureau of Education" (later changed to "Office of Education"). An erroneous entry at Royal Dixon mentions the "Board of Education." The expression should have used the official name, i. e., "Bureau of Education" (or "Office of Education"). The terms "Board of Education" and "Bureau of Education" appear at various places in the encyclopedia including at times when the official name was "Office of Education." GhostofSuperslum 18:44, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

Strong evidence indicates that the name "Office of Education" remained the official name of the unit continuously from the 1870s to 1972 when the unit was dissolved. After about 1872, all of the entries that refer to the "Board of Education" are improper, and may be classified as being errors. People were employed by the "Office of Education," not by the "Bureau of Education" (officially, that name was nonexistent). GhostofSuperslum 13:52, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

Untrue. The name Office of Education was changed back to Bureau of education until 1929 when it reverted to Office of Education, according to ed.gov. GhostofSuperslum 16:49, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

Fix the URL typo. GhostofSuperslum 05:38, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

Wrong names of people

Most of the errors in the encyclopedia have been produced using wrong names of people.

• Andrade e Silva, José Bonifácio de is listed as Andrada e Silva, Bonifacio José d'
• Bartholdy, Jakob Salomo He lived in Casa Bartholdi in Rome, hence, he is sometimes called "Consul Bartholdi." His middle name may have been Salamon.

1. The page has been moved to Jakob Salomon Bartholdy. The width of the column where the name was printed was not wide enough to include the letter n, so the printers omitted it. GhostofSuperslum 00:30, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

However, the name Salomo was the proper name of another individual. GhostofSuperslum 18:56, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

• Beale, Truxtun is called Beale, Truxton
• Bernard, Mountague is misspelled as Montague Bernard in the article Washington, Treaty of.
• Chase, George Colby, D.D., a president of Bates College who died in 1919, is called "George Colby Bates" in the 1926 Supplement to the encyclopedia
• Cobb, Thomas Reade Rootes is mis-spelled Cobb, Thomas Reed Rootes
• Ginsberg, Asher Hirsch is listed as Ginzberg, Asher
• Halleck, Fitz-Greene is called Fitzgreen Halleck....
• Helfferich, Karl is spelled Helferrich, Karl
• Jadlowker, Hermann is spelled Jadlowker, Herman
• Laughlin, James Laurence is listed as Laughlin, James Lawrence
• Li Bai is listed as Li Tai-Peh
• Princip, Gavrilo is called Prinzip, Gavrio
• Savile, Sir Henry is called "Henry Savil" at Chrysostom
• Otakar Ševčík is spelled Ottokar Sevcik
• Leonhard von Spengel is listed as Spengel, Leonhard
• Mary Ann Vincent is named Vincent, Mary Anne
• Blanche Whiffen is called Whiffin, Blanche

Corrected by New International Encyclopedia

• Gorham Dummer Abbott was correctly spelled in New International Encyclopedia. A page using the incorrect name ABBOT was moved to the correct name. GhostofSuperslum 06:40, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

Wrong names of places

• Moorefield, West Virginia is called "Morefield, Va." at 'Kelley', Benjamin Franklin
• Hillsborough, New Hampshire is called "Hillsboro, N.H." at Andrews, Christopher Columbus
• Portsmouth, New Hampshire is called "Portsmouth, Me." at 'Murphy', Francis.

1. (That is not a unique error. See: Portsmouth Naval Shipyard).

• Prince George County, Virginia is occasionally called Prince George's County
• Mechelen, a city in Belgium, is called "Mechlin" at the biography of Willems, Florent.
  • This might be a different anglicisation? "Mechlin" is the one name used by the Catholic Encyclopedia (possibly becaus eof the Latin name, though). Circeus (talk) 22:12, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

Wrong dates

• The year 1708 is in William Winston Seaton, but it should have been 1798.

• Hinton Rowan Helper wrote The Land of Gold in 1855; the misprint is 1865.

• Heinrich Körting (born 1859) has a date of death of "90" (which means 1890). He wrote books after 1900, thus his DOD is an error.

Other errors

• William Conant Church is touted as being the first president of the National Rifle Association, however, General Ambrose Burnside was chosen first. Church was the second president.

• At 'BERLIN', Congress of, General Von Bülow is listed as a delegate at the Congress of Berlin, however, he was a secretary, not a delegate. In truth, it was his father Statesman von Bülow, who was one of the three German plenipotentaries.

Cautionary note: It is possible that neither the father nor the son was a General. The son fought in the Franco-Prussian War (1870-71) at about 21 years of age. Perhaps he was a very young (honorary) General. I have not seen any evidence of the father ever having served in the Army. GhostofSuperslum 16:23, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

A third member of the family, Karl Ulrich von Bülow, was a Major-General during World War I. New International Encyclopedia published a major edition about 1915 to 1917, therefore, they may have erroneously reported that he was at the Berlin Congress. GhostofSuperslum 16:10, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

It may be true that NO "General Bulow" existed when the Congress of Berlin met. GhostofSuperslum 18:03, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

• Sir Francis Clare Ford (1828-99) is described as being the United States Minister to the Argentine Republic in 1878-79. He was a British diplomat, not an American diplomat. GhostofSuperslum 16:50, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

Grammar

"from whence" is an error

Sachaline is an article which reads this way: "The plant is a native of Siberia from whence ..." which is not proper English. User:It's-is-not-a-genitive repaired that grammatical error.

It is "over yonder"--->

See also

• Wikipedia:Errors in the Encyclopædia Britannica that have been corrected in Wikipedia