ANGLO-SAXON, the name usually assigned to the early inflected form of the English language.

ANGO`LA (2,400), a district on the W. coast of Africa, between the Congo and Benguela, subject to Portugal, the capital of which is St. Paul de Loando.

ANGO`RA (20), a city in the centre of Anatolia, in a district noted for its silky, long-haired animals, cats and dogs as well as goats.

ANGOSTU`RA, capital of the province of Guayana, in Venezuela, 240 m. up the Orinoco; also a medicinal bark exported thence.

ANGOULEME` (31), an old French city on the Charente, 83 m.  NE. of Bordeaux, with a fine cathedral, the birthplace of Marguerite de Valois and Balzac.

ANGOULEME, CHARLES DE VALOIS, DUC D’, natural son of Charles IX., gained great reputation as a military commander, left Memoirs of his life (1575-1650).

ANGOULEME, DUC D’, the eldest son of Charles X., after the Revolution of 1830 gave up his rights to the throne and retired to Goritz (1778-1844).

ANGOULEME, DUCHESSE D’, daughter of Louis XVI. and wife of the preceding (1778-1851).

AN`GRA, the capital of the Azores, on the island of Terceira, a fortified place.

AN`GRA PEQUE`NA, a port in SW.  Africa, N. of the Orange River, and the nucleus of the territory belonging to Germany.

ANG`STROM, a Swedish physicist and professor at Upsala, distinguished for his studies on the solar spectrum; b. 1814.

ANGUIL`LA (2), or Snake Island, one of the Lesser Antilles, E. of Porto Rico, belonging to Britain.

ANGUIER, the name of two famous French sculptors in the 17th century.

AN`HALT (293), a duchy of Central Germany, surrounded and split up by Prussian Saxony, and watered by the Elbe and Saale; rich in minerals.

ANHALT-DESSAU, LEOPOLD, PRINCE OF, a Prussian field-marshal, served and distinguished himself in the war of the Spanish Succession and in Italy, was wounded at Cassano; defeated Charles XII. at the Isle of Ruegen, and the Saxons and Austrians at Kesseldorf (1676-1747).

ANICHINI, an Italian medallist of the 16th century; executed a medal representing the interview of Alexander the Great with the High Priest of the Jews, which Michael Angelo pronounced the perfection of the art.

ANILINE, a colourless transparent oily liquid, obtained chiefly from coal-tar, and extensively used in the production of dyes.

ANIMAL HEAT, the heat produced by the chemical changes which go on in the animal system, the intensity depending on the activity of the process.

ANIMAL MAGNETISM, a name given to the alleged effects on the animal system, in certain passive states, of certain presumed magnetic influences acting upon it.

ANIMISM, a belief that there is a psychical body within the physical body of a living being, correspondent with it in attributes, and that when the connection between them is dissolved by death the former lives on in a ghostly form; in other words, a belief of a ghost-soul existing conjointly with and subsisting apart from the body, its physical counterpart.