[Anderson, James], a Scotch lawyer, famous for his learning and his antiquarian knowledge (1662-1728).
[Anderson, James], native of Hermiston, near Edinburgh, a writer on agriculture and promoter of it in Scotland (1739-1808).
[Anderson, John], a native of Roseneath, professor of physics in Glasgow University, and the founder of the Andersonian College in Glasgow (1726-1796).
[Anderson, Lawrence], one of the chief reformers of religion in Sweden (1480-1552).
[Anderson, Mary], a celebrated actress, native of California; in 1890 married M. Navarro de Viano of New York; b. 1859.
[Anderson, Sir Edmund], Lord Chief-Justice of Common Pleas under Elizabeth, sat as judge at the trial of Mary, Queen of Scots. Anderson's Reports is still a book of authority; d. 1605.
[Andes], an unbroken range of high mountains, 150 of them actively volcanic, which extend, often in double and triple chains, along the west of South America from Cape Horn to Panama, a distance of 4500 m., divided into the Southern or Chilian as far as 23½° S., the Central as far as 10° S., and the Northern to their termination.
[Andocides], an orator and leader of the oligarchical faction in Athens; was four times exiled, the first time for profaning the Eleusinian Mysteries (467-393 B.C.).
[Andor`ra] (6), a small republic in the E. Pyrenees, enclosed by mountains, under the protection of France and the Bishop of Urgel, in Catalonia; cattle-rearing is the chief occupation of the inhabitants, who are a primitive people and of simple habits.
[Andover], an old municipal borough and market-town in Hampshire, 66 m. SW. of London; also a town 23 m. from Boston, U.S., famous for its theological seminary, founded in 1807.