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ROSEV ILLE—ROSICRU CIANISM 5 5 9

a coReredvauK or crilin» The rtuetle almos! wtdt out o( l»ein the merfiaeval period save as il sometunes occurred aianindividual flower mGothk nalurnlistK ornamcnt •"uemlicular periodmEngland, tbc populantyof tbe beraldic Tudor

rose «avea newimportanceto U»eroaelte i de*, and roselteawereirequently empioyed, repeated at regular iniervals, to decóratehoDowmonldmgs. Renaiaaance roaette* indrsignare baseduponib»e oí Rome. but wereusedevenmore lavühly owmg to tbeimmensedevelopment oí woodencolered andpW»«Ued“ úwf*

In metalworktbc ideaoí the roselte wa»pcobably devdoped¡ndepcndently. owingto the easewith whichbttle drop®oí metalcould hesoldered or íastenedin a circle. to a basic utensil Sucbrasetto, íormedeitber oí a simplecircle of nearlybrrmspbencalshape. or oí one larfe bemupbere *urroundedby several smalleronc» are lavourite late Brocaeandearly Irona*e decoratioos mthe ráetalworkoí tbe Celta, Scandinaviaüi and nortbernEuropegenerally , ' F **.)

ROSEVILLE, a city of Placer county. California, ü SA., onSecret Ravine (a tributary of tbe Sacramentoriver) tS m Nt.of Sacramento It b ooFederal highway40. andi* bySouthern Pacific railway lines. Pop 4477 » iqjo (8j% nativewhite); estimatedlocaliy at 7.800 in 1938. Tbere are mímemerailroad construction and repair abops and íreightclasabcaUonyarda bere, andtbe largest icemanuíacturing and«orage plantin tbe couotry, íor tbe refnferatioo oí fniit and vegetable

“ r o s e WINDOW or WHEEL WINDOW, martbitecture.a tertnapplied to any decorated, circular window Indecoratedcircular window* are foundin certain impenal Román slructurea,usedespecially intbe upper portions of rooms or piercedthrougbvaults, as in thetombof tbe timeof Hadrianknownas tbe Cantedei Pazxi. near Rome. but atructural decora!ion oí such formswaa apparently not attempted until tbe Byxantine andRomanrsque perioda One of tbe earlieat decorated circular wbdow.extant is that of ihe Italian Rotnanesque churchoí S Mana mPompo», possiblyas earlyas the íotb century. inwhichthede*orattoci consista oí a piercedmarhle slabof great richness, withadesign oí interlaces and birds purely Byaantine In FrenchRomanesqueworkcircular window»alsoappear. but intheearlierrxamples, nuchas the i itb centuryapseoí S. Serninat Toulouse,tbey are undecorated. líke those oí tbc Román empire. Meanwhile, in Mohammcdanwork, the cuspedcircle hadbeena rommon form, usually. bowever. not as awindow, but a» th_ boundaryof a sunkbemisphere. as in the rao»queof IbnToulounat Cairo (87678). . . , .

The crusaders probablysawmany examplcs of *u«hforma; inanvcaseit is onlyafter the earlier ennades andespecially towanisthé muidleof the tith century that the idea of makínf a nchdecorative motive out of a roundwindowappeared lromtben

onthe simple rose windowbecaroemore andmorecommon, ani!was in íact, a distingutshing characteristic oí manytransitionaland’earlvG¿thic cathedrab It «a»particularly usedat the westrndoí the nave and the ends oí the uansepts An eiceptionalearlyuse is tbe roundwindowwhich ligbted tbe trifonura roof«paceíromthe naveinthe origina! formoí Not re Dame at Pamibeíorc 1177). In tbe west íront oí Laon caihedral (complrtedprior to 1100) there is an enormous rose windowwith 11semicircleaaround tbc edgeand the central foiledand cusped circleseparatedtromtbe apeles of thesesemicircle* bya considerabledistance, tbe connectioobetweenbebig made by little radiatingcolonnettes Uke spokes This window is remarkably advancedfor its date, as theülling. Uke that of the París tnforiun». is essentiallybar traceTy The rote windowoí the west front oí Cbartres cathedral íi 1041n») consists. on tbe other hand, of píatetracery. the circle beingñUedwitba thinpUte oí stone. throughwhich are piercedmany small foiledor cuspedholes. Asimilarforro of píate tracery within a circle is uaed to capthe twinwindows of tbe clerestorey baya.

The ¡ntroduetton oí developed bar tracery gavea compeUingÍmpetus to rosewindowdesign Tbe general «.heme consutedoía series oí radiatingforma, eachof whichwastippedby apomledarchat theoutsideof the circle The bar* betweenthese forma

were joined at tbe centre by a pierced circle of tfone and theforma themselve* írequently treated like bttle tracened window»with subauliary. »ubdividingbar», arebe» andíoiled cueles Themoat beauuíul eiample* oí this type arethose oí the west írontof Rbetms cathedral (end oí tbe 13Ü1century) »ndthe "anaept»oí Rheims, Amien* andNotre Dame at París (all of tbe lasx bal!of the xjth century). Tbe introductioo oí the wavy lines oíflamboyant tracery compktely changed the character oí FrenchroseWindows, but tbeyconünuedbasically radial mginde*ign. Tbtradiating elementa coosiated of an intricate network of wtvydouble curved bar», creating all sorts of in»erestingflame shape», and incidental!y. íunushing a diagonal hracmg tothe wbole cornposition whichadded materially to its structuralstrength. The rose at tbe end oí tbe transept at Beauvais (earlyi6th century) »a characteristic

Tbe induenceof the Frenchrose window»waawidrspreadíromanearlyperiod Variatiooaoí tbeforra appear ina multitudeoflate Italian Romanesque eburebes, aain thewidelyvarying typein tbe late uth century weMíront of S. Pietro in Toacanella.and themore normal ezample in S. Zenoat Verona (late títhcentury). In Englandthe rosewindowhas never beensopopularas inFrance. Those in tbe transepts oí Westminster Abbeyareinore characteristically French iban Engliah. Tbe most typically Englisheaample» are in ihe tramepts of Iúncolncathedral;that onthe northfromthe Early Englahperiod is a remarkablydebes te example oí píate tracery, that on the south from theCurvilínea/period of ihe early t4th century ia atriking because

it i* not radiating in deaign, and tberefore completely at oddswithtbe Frenchprolotypes. TMCBtt.) (T F H)ROSEWOOD, tbe ñame given 10 scveraJ disiinct kind» ofornament il timber. That, bowever, socailed in the United K.mgdora is Braiilian rosewood. tbe paiüwmire of tbe French, tbeñnest qualilie* of which, coming írom the provinees oí Rio de

Janeiro and Babia, are believedto be tbe produceprindpallyoíDalbcrgia mifra, a legummous tree of Urge dimensión*, calledcaótuna and jMvanda by tbe Brañlians The same ñame, Jacaranda, is appliedto several species of MacMcenum,alsotree»belonging lo tbe famíly L gununosae; and ¡here canbe nodoub»that acertain proportion oí the rosewoodof commerce is drawnfromthese sourcea. « . . . .

Rosewoodis eiportedin large quantities fromRio deJaneiro,Babia, Jamaica and Hondura* Tbc beartwood attain largedimensión*, but as it begiru to decaybefóte the tree arrivrs almaturity it b always faully and bollowin the centre. On thisaccount squared logs or plank» of rotewoodare never scen, thewoodbeingimportedin halfroundflitchcs 10to jo ft. in Icngthand (romi lo u in mibcir Ihickol pin Rosc.ood to j tepruddy brown colour, nchlv »treaked and grained with bUikresinou»layers It take» a line polish, but, on account oí it»rrtinous nature, il i* somewhat dilficult to work Ihc wood1»

verymuch»ndemandbycabinetmakers and pianofortemakersROSICRUCIANISM. Asystemof my»tical andmetaphysi >cal philosophv intended to guide the development oí tbe innerconsaousneis FopuUr opimoncredits the íoundationof theFratemity oí Rosicrucians as having occurred in Cassel. Gernunycarlv in the jeventeenth centurywhen some pampblels wereis*uedentilledtbe "AllgemineundGeneralReformationder ganaenweiten Well,” and the "Fama Fraternitates ” bebeved to has*beenwritten by the theologun, Johann ValentínAndrea <«51654) Later investigaUons. however. revealedthat althoughthefamíly arms of Andreacontaineda cross andperhaps aroseIitt belerw), behadnoactual p*ri in the revival of tbeFraternity inCermañyandthat the pamphlets werepublílhed in vanous languages under the symbolical ñame of Chrislian Rosenkrciw(Christian Ro»e Cross) The pamphlet refened to thepreviousenstence oí theFraternity inthe Onenc, but íor nearlya hnndredyear* the hislorical background wasconsideredm hical

Research dunng the past lew years revaled thal the Romtrucian Fraternity had an actual orgamtcd enstence long pnurto what wa»only a revival inOermany In 1O07Figulu*. a wellknown writer of my»tical bleraturr. «s»ueda pamphlet rcíernng10theenstence ol the Fraternity in Europe in 1410 Thi» date

ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA 14th Revised Edition

Above and to the right are complete, reduced photographic reproductions of pages of the E n c y c l ope d i a tintannica, tne latest revised edition containing anarhcle on Kosicrucianism referring to the history and

objeets of the Orde r. Th e article begins on page550

and concludes on page 560 . Note bibliography atconclusión of article.

;6 o ROSIN—ROSMEADrrlerrrd lo by I* Gaüttrr, jnollirr wrllltnown wntrr

OÍ Hematíe and m>stical literature Micha?) Maier one limeoffner of the Fraternity state»that the year 141) wa»the year»nwhich the greatesl revivaUof activity occurred. while Kaiswetter, another officer nieniion» the work of one Fne*an orFriesau. whowas national Imperator oí the Fraternity in 146SComeÜu» Agnppa mentions the íoundation oí a branchin ico»andState»that Brother Philalathe»wa»1investedwith ihe poweioí Imperator ’ In a letter íromthe wellknown Dr Landalí. oíLyon. France. a.'dressed to Agnppi. he atates that he wa» acquamted w.th the Fralernity in iSo<) Paracelsu» recorded hitadmmion intoa RosicrucianLodge in Basle, in 153c

Hetnrich Khunrath RoaicrucUnofficer andauthor in GermanvandAuatna, pubhabeda bookdealingw.th thesecret principie* in1598. and anintemational rongress of Rosicrucian* was beld inEngUnd in the year 1604 Many ancienl Rosicrucian manusenpt»preser\ed ina rare collection in the city of Colognecontainproof that theorganirationwa»oídever. inthesixteenthcen-tury Onebookinthe collectionby Brother 1Omnis Moriar. ‘relers toa Rosurucun Lodge inCcrmanyin 1115. whileAmoidde1anova, an oflicer oí tbeFraternity speak.»in his •Roaary’ oí

the Fraternity existing in U30. and wc find rríerence to theorgamzationin Denmark m1484 and France in 1597

The ñame oí Iheorganuationis derivedíromits original Sym-bol. the ero** witha single redrosein its centre While the earlyKoaicrucinns gavetimeto the itudyof alehemyanddevoledmuchtimetoezperiments intransmutation, ihe principies werenot confinedto ihe changmgof gro»ametal»mto gold bul of tbe groaserdrmenti of humannatureínto higher. spiritual qualities

Th« Fraternity il genrraltyknown Ibrou hout tbc World*a theAncient Mystic Order oí Rout Cmci», oíten ahbreviaredto Iheirnüaii “AMORC" It eime to Americafir.l w. i í*n I[ i, non.«ectanan ara! in a bread jen» nonrelifioiu. maimuch ai itateachinfs mclude the practica! aciencei to a ¡rreater eatent thanprincipie, ol relijio™ ihounhl It ha» con.nlrnlly labooed ihe•uperuihou. arta ol IheOrienl anddoe, nol mclude fortune teUin*. necrorna.Tcy, or jpinluabim Each jrudiclion ii under Ihedirection oí an Imperator who has a supreme council as an advisory hoardande,la hl i charlered lolites and chaplees All

jurtsdiclions are unnrdin a general inlernjliooal boctv Ihrourhtheappoimmenl ol one hi*hoBicer as a memher ol Ihe Inlemal.onal Rosicrucian t'ouncil Th.s body .onsmutej the supremeadvisory power of the worldwide «nianiialion.

The orgaiuiationis not related to anyother Fralernity despiteIhe Iact that therc is > symbolical de*ree in the Scoilish Rite»of lrremasonryknownas Ihe Rosicruciant>e«rre ManyMalonic historian* have shown thal modemFrecmasoory was oulhnedbymentrained in Rosicrucianrituals. bul Ihe RosicrucianFralernity makes no claims in tbis re*ard Thcre ate s«n.Masóme Rosicrucian societies. such ai tbc Sodctas RosicmcianjenAngtia, with headquarters in London, composedexcluaivrly ofFreemaíons. but thece are nol pan ol ihe Inlernalion.1 RosiclucíanOr«anualion Some students of Oriental philouphvhavealso usedtheWord "Rosicrucian”as part of tbeir tille bui these•re not atfiliated with the International organiution

rv * 71..AE Waüe. Tk, Rea¡ Hn-

m “ T ' J * ’•“ c’ ° " (three rdili*>ns iSi ,H Soe ^írT íln T a r *”» " ’ °* rn °‘ <h” '' pubkshed inEarope.

n í l™ ' Z "uU”i" l i » » l US A. (H s . L .)ROSIN or COLOPHONY, the resinous cunstitueni ol tbe

Oleoresrnexuded byvanous specie. ol pine. known in commerce 1as crude lurpenune. Tbe separation ol the oleoresin into therssenlial oilspirit of turpentine and common rosin is effettedbydistillattonmlargestill» Rosin(a later variant ol "resin” >v '|vanes mcolour. accordmn to the ol ihe tree whence théurpemine is drawnandtheamount of beal applied mdistillalion

froman opaque almost pilchy black substance lhrou,h «radesOf brownandyellowto analmost perfectly transparenl colourlessglaasv masa The commercUI grades are miracroin. ranginr byletter, fromA. thedarkesl lo N eatra p.le._uperior lo .h.ch

i . . L W: n ,>w ' * °d » W , ' w ater w hi le " v an ct ie s. th eiattei having about thrce times the valué of tbe common qualities

Rosin is a bnttle and Inable resin, wuh a faml pinehke odour.} the mellmgpoint vanes wuh ihfieirnt speetmens. some being

srmi (luid at the le mperatur e ol boiUng water, while otbers donot melt lili J¡ o ' or j 5o* F II is loluíOe in alcohol, etber hen

i aene and chlorotorm In addition lo its extensive use in soapmakmg. rosin is larjely employed m making mfehor lamishessealingwai. vanous cements and as a siamg agent ui the manufacture of paper It u alkousedíor prepanng«hoeraaker» waxas •flux Ior soldenng metáis, for pilching lagei beer .asks Ior roaming the bows of musical instruments. etc In plurmacy itforma an ingredvnt m several plasters and uimmenti

The chief región oí rosin production is tbe South Atlantic andEute m Gtilf statea of the toited S utes Amanean rosin aobtüined írom Ihe lurpentioe ol the ssramp pine A w Juit rüu

and of ihe lohlolly pine. P Ta r ja Tbe mam loiirce ol supply inLurope is the "landes" ol tbe de panmenu of Ciroode and Landesin France. wbere the cluster pine. P Pmt t l r r , is eatetiaivelycullivated. In the nonh of Europe roain u obtamed írom tbeocotcnnr, P ry/iyjfnj. andihroughout Kuropean countrie* localauppiies are obtamed íromother species of pine

ROSKILDE or Roes a su*, . town oí Denmarkín ihe ami (couniy oí K>#benhavn <Copenhagen). jo m by rail W oftopenhagen, on tbe great lagoonUke inlet named Roakildefjord rop ( iqjíI i 13.540. lis chief interesl is hútoncal ItWí“ ¿ bL<í!Í ,*I /0l k,n*doo, untü ‘^ 3 “ d Ihe rendenceof tbe bisbops oí Zcaland untü ihe Reíormation The cathedralwa»(.onsecraledu>10S4. but oí this earlybuildtngoaly íoundationwall» remam; tbe present atructure of bríck was begun in meand enlarged and reworrd at vanous later dales lt cootámsihetombs of moat oí tbe Darnshbngs íromHaroldI (oí?)INS ON*fA b ’ HIE* f UL *S GE OB GE «OlE R T RO»INSON, 1IT Babón (i l)4 ig ) , Briliab colomal admmulraivrwaaborn on Dec 19. 1814 He wu of lriafa deaccnt on both

j aidea; ka íather wa* Admiral Hercuk* Robmaoo. hiamother .Mtss Uoodof Roamead. CountyWeatmeath, íromwhichbe aíterwards took his tille Paaaúig írom jandhurst mto the S7U1 Footheattainedthe rankoí captam; bul in 1846. thro««btbeinÜuenceoí LordNaas, be obuinedapoat intbe Boardof Public Works inIreland. and suUequenily betarae chieí conmusaioaer oí íamand marketi Hi» encrgy mtheae poaiuona. notably dunng thríanime of 184*. and tbe rkaracu *nd vigour oí bu reportasecuredfor himat the age of 30 the office oí prenden: oí theislandoí Montserrat He was governor oí St Chrutopber (rom1853to 1859, whenhew«* kmgbtedmrecogiutíon oí bis Service»ui introducingcoolie bbour mto tbe ialand SubMqurn:ly be wa»governor of HoogKong. oí Ceylon(ILC II G m 1869). and, m187a, of .NewSouth Wales It fell to bu lot lo annez the Fijii»lands to tbe Uritiaherapire, andhia servicea were rr rded in1875 bypromolionto GCMG

In 1879 hewa* transfermi lo NewZealand, and in 1880be«ucceededSir Bartle Frere as bgh commnaiooer of SouthAfricaHeamvedinSouthAfricaabortlybefore tbedisaater of Majuba.and wasone of tbe commiiaioner* for negotktinga peacewhichwas personally distasteíul to tum Ii ieíi himwith the taik oíconciüating ontbe one handa Dutch part y elated witb victoryandonIbeother handa Britisbpartyalmost ready todespair ofthe Britisb connection He wascalledborne in 1883lo advi* tbe(«overoment onthe terms oí tbe newconvention conchided withthe Transvaal Boer» inFeb 1SA4 Onbis returntoSouth Africa

he found that a cntkal situation had arisen m BechuanaJandwhere Boer cocnmandoes hadseiaed large traets of territorv andproclaimed the TepublKs" of Stella and Goaben (s,< Karci».S J P ) They refuaedto retire withinthelimits oí tbe Tran»vaalas defined by the new convention. and Robinaon. alivc lo thenecewity of preserving this counrry—tbe mainroad to thenonh—for Great Britain. took actíoo which ledto tbeeapeditionoíSir Charles Warrenand tbeannexalion oí Becbuanalandearly in1885. R'tbinsonwonKruger »coofidence by bia íairmtndednesuwhilebe seconded Rhode»S effort»tounite theBritiabandDutchpartíes inCapeColony. Hís mind however. wasthat oí tbeadmin



R O S E WO O D 1 0

g* b!« in 231b and Mtb cent. cburcbes. Tbereate notable examples in the cathedrals oí Reims,

Strasbourg, Amiens,Chartres, and Paris.

R O S E WO O D . Superior cabinetwood obla.ined i rom Bnñ lian trees of the genus Dalber-

gia. One oí themost highly prizedspecies is D. nigra.The wood is impon ed in segments,

k o s f . w in d o w a n d i s s o ld b y (Sirtsbmrf CMhedctl) wcigiit. It gives

ou! a fain t rose odo r wh rn cut. f ROS1CRUCIAN ORDER. An Interna-

tiona! fraternity, ofticially The Ancient andM jsíita) Order Ro hc C rucis (Order oí tbeRosy Cross), baving its traditional origin inthe Great White Brotherhood, which flourishedin Egypt about 1500 *.c. Its ensblem is across with asingle rose in the cerner, from

whic h itderivesits ñame It is said to havebeen ¡ntroduced in£o Palestino by Solomon,and was first established in the U.S. in 1603It conducís welíare work and contributes to

- the advancement of aii fine arts and scierc.es^ ROSS. Bn sy, Mus. {n*e Geixcom) ( t752-1836). Maker of the first American Bag. B.Philadelphia. An upholsterer and flagmakerby íradr, she made tbe firet American flag in1777 according to the design of the flag com-mittee of the Continental Congress, herselísuggesting the f-poioted star. Her íou r daughters were also employed by the govt. tomake flags.

R O S S , S a t J a m e s C í . a j ¡c ( t S o o - i & ó t ) . British polar explorrr B. London, nephew of Sir John Ross. Entering the navy in 1811 , hemade 4 Arctic ex plora tions between rSro and1827. Followiog bis discovery of the Northmagnetic pole in 1832, he was leader of the Anta rctic exped ition (18 39 -18 43 ), which sailedin tbe Ercbus and Terror. On this voyagehe discovered Victoria Land and an active vol-cano which he named Mt. Ercbus. He wasknighted i22 1844.

ROSS, Si * J o h n ( i 7 7 ; - i 8$6) . British Arc-tic explorer. B. Balsarroc h, Scotland. Hecommanded the ¡sabe Ua in an unjuccessfulattempt to find a Northwest Passage in 1818. On his second attempt in 1829, as comtoanderof the Victory, he discovered Boothia Félix,the most northernly extensión of tbe Americanmainland Icebound for 4 winters, he was res-cued by the IsabeUa in Laucaster Sound. He was knighte d in 1834.

ROSS, Siit Ron ald (185 7-19 32). Englishphysia'an. He began a study of malaria in 1&92, and discovered the li/e history oí malaria!parasites in mosquitos in 1897-98. In 1899,he headed the expedition which found malaria-bearing mosquitos in W. Africa. In 2901 re-ceived the Nobel priie in medicine He wasknighted in 191 1. During the World War he

was Consulting phys lcian for índi an troops .Regarded as the world’s foremost authorily onmalaria, he was also well-known as a poet,mathematician and noveíist.

2 ROSTAND

R O S S E , Wn.LiAM Pa s s o n s , 31® E a r l o r(1800- 1867). English asironomer. B. York.He was a member of Parliament (1823-1834)and succeeded to bis tille in 1841. Tbrou gh hisimprovement in the construction of reflectingtelescopes, a larger speculum was brought intouse, thus affording greater óptica) powor forobservation of nebulae. He was president of the Royal Socicty, 1849 1834.

R O S S E T T I , C b r i s t i s a Geokcina (183©-1894). English poet. Raughter of GabrielRossetti, and sister of Dante G. Gabriel, she

was born in Lond on and commence d her lit-erary career in childhood Her most impor-tant poetical work was Goblin Markel (1862)and the religious work, The Face o/ the Deep (2892).

ROSSETTI, Dante Gabrif.i. ( 1828188.0 í^nglish poet and painte r. Born in Lond on,his ful) ñame was Gabriel Charles Dante kn>setti, which he rearranged for literary pur-poses. From the first he showed more geniusin poelry tilín painting, and bis great poemThe Bleucd Domosel was published about1847. In 1847 he met Millais and HolmanHunt and ochers, «hile 3 student 0/ FordMadox Brown. and together they formed thePre Raphaelite Brotherhood which exerted a

great influence on his later arí work Amonghis notable paintings was Proserfiina in Hades (1874 ). Much of his best poetical work isincluded in Baliads and Sonnets (1881)

R O S S E T T I , W xlli am M jc b ae l (182 9-1919 ). English poet and art critic. B. London, the son of Gabriel Rossetti. He worfcedin tbe excise office, 2845-2Í94, and belpedfound the Pre-Raphaelits Brotherhood, 1847.He wrote U v e s 0/ Famous Poets ( 1878) ;Rossetti Patees, 1861, 1S70, 1903.

ROSSI, G io v a n n i B a t t i s t a d e i (t8aa-1894 ). Italian archeologist. • Born in Rome,he was efistinguished for his studies of theinscriptions of the early centuries of the Chris-tian Church and made important discoveries inthe catacombs His Roma Sotteranea Chris- tiana was published 1864-2877.

ROSSINI, Gioachimo Antonio (1792-1868) . Italian composer. B. Pesaro, he stud-ied at tbe Bologna Conservatory. His firstopera, La Cambióle di Matrimonio, was pro-duced in Vienna in 1810 . One of his mostnoted compositíons, which has bicorne uni- ver sally popu lar, was the Barber of Sevilie, wri tten in 18 16 . Betw een 18 15 and 182 3 heproducid about jo aperas. His principal aoag, Síabot Ma lee, was composed during 1832-1839.

ROSS SEA. Portion of the AntarcticOcean lying between S. Victoria Land andKing Edward Vtl Land. Named for Sir Jam es Clar k Ros s. an Englis h explore r, whodiscovered it in his 1839- 1843 voyag e' Itstoasts and ¿d/ acent islands and territories wereannexed by New Zealand in 1913.

R O S T A N D , Edmono (186 8-191 8). French poet and pla yw righ t. B Marseilles. His mostconspicuous success was the five act drama in verse, Cyrano de Bergerac (1897), in which

Coquelin appeared in Paris. and Richard Mans-field in the U.S. His second popular play was ¡.'A igl on (1900), and the height of his popu- íarit y was reached in Chantecler (1910), in

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1494) non moins de re omni scibilus que A i .b e r t u s

M a g n u s, et R e u c h u n , l’auteur de De Verbo Mirifico, professeur á l’Université de Tübingen ( 1481) et d’Ingol

stadt ( 1519 ). Une place tout a fait spéciale parmi les préeurseurs des RoseCroix est occupée par Le D a n t e A i.

G h i b h i , comme je le montrerai plus loin.S p e n c e r L e w i s , Imperator actuel de la Rosar Crucú

Society en Amérique, a établi le rapport direct qui existeentre les RoseCroix et les Mystcres d’Egypte. II déelare,dans son ótude History of the Ordei Rcsae Crucis que leroi T h o t m e s IT1 ( 1500-1447 av. J.C.) est le vóritable fondateur de l'Ordre des RoseCroix, et qu’il institua plusieursrégles, qui sont actuellement encore en vigueur.

Douze memb res, neuf fréres et trois soeurs, dotit lafenime de Thotm es assistérent la fondation, écrit

Sp. Lewis.Les réunions avaient lieu tous les jeudis. Le jeudi qui

precede la pleine lune aprés l’équinoxe du printemps,était célébrée une cérémonie spéciale qui, avee les changements apportés par le temps, se retrouve dans les usagesdu Jeudi Saint. Le sceau de Thotmés aurait été conservéet se trouverait á présent entre les niains de Sp. Lewis luiméme. Un des successeurs de Thotmés, A m e n o t e b IIT,fut l’auteur d’une philosophie profonde et d’écrits quiseraient encore emplovés actuellement par toutes les logesrosicruciennes du monde.

L ’Ordre comptait 300 membres, dont 62 sceurs, sous leregne d‘Am énoteb I II . Ce souverain érigea le temple deKarna k dans la forme de la croix ansée réunion de larose avec la Croix, et dessina les symboles, notamment laRose et le croissant de la Lune, qui firent partie du svmbolisme des RoseCroix.

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HISTOIRE des ROSE-CROIX

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ROSS, BetSY ( 17^ 1836). an ob»curc se»mstress of Philadciphia who gained an bonored

vindow u uncu pUcr in the history of the l ’nited Sutes aa tbcta l l e d a t thrrl inaker of iLs first national rtag in June. 1777.

y&indovo Where ¡tfíU eomew while she was living in a srnall. oíd fashionedihe voids form iuüah niamgn brick house, at jjg Ar cb Street, she waavwtedthe design. :t i» by a curamittee Irom Congress beaded by GencaUed piale tnurr v The decorative rose era! Washington, thc committee had heardwindow »as a feature in the church architec ture that she was an evpert needlcwoman, and itol ihe thirtcenth and fotirteenth crn lun a in desired her to make a lia# according to tbetra nce and Kngtand, *nd «'•»ala») seen todav tn design adopt a! by C?onjj¡rc* on June u |»«chinches of pretentious architecture Amoag F l a ú (l'niled Sutes Hag)l The stoiy baatbc beautiful esamples of thi» type of window come down th at Washington preferred *útarr those in Notre Dame í'atbe tlral, P ar», in pointed %un. and that she {>ersuaded him tothe catherind at Ama*ns. and in the restored ailow her to make five pointe<i ones. '!!»« flf.Tíuthedra) t i t made by her had thtrteen white stars arrangedin a circle on a blue held, and thirteen altemate

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Rosevllle, a town of PlacerCounty, Cal., eituated 18 m. n . e . of Sacramento. It has fruit packing industries. Pop. (1930), 6413.

Rose Window, in arcldtecture,a windowc h i e f 1 yshown inGothic cathedrals, ofthe middleor Rayorv- nant period. Thesew i n do w awere circu-lar in form,the interior

space being filledi n wi ths t a i n e dglaas andt r a c e r ywork, the main parta of which ineome instanoes radíate like theB p o k e s of a wheel. Amiena cathe dral is a splendid example.

Rosewood, the commercialnaine of the wood of several treesvalued for lieauty and used fo r ornamental furniture. The prin-cipal apecies is thought to be aBrazilian Mim osa . Several species of Dcdbergia, of tho familyL<;guminos», are alao bel ieved tobe roaewooda, but in general thebotanical namea are in doubt.Varioua kinda of roaowood,imported from South America,are much used for veneering,in making furniture, musicalinstrumenta, and the like.Rosewood has for a long time beeneecond only to mahogany as afurnitu re wood. I t varies in colorfrom reddish brown to purple oralmoat black, often l>eautifullymarked with atreaka of dark red.

When being aawed or cut it yieldaan agreeable amell of roses, heneelid ñame.

Roslcruclan Order, an ínter ^national fraternity (said to be ofEgyptian origin) oi>erated on tholodge system and devoted to thepractical application of the artaand aciences to human relatíonahipa. ¿Mlied jurisdictiona sendtheir repreaentative8 to congresaeaheld periodically at Geneva. Inthe United Statea the organization ia known as the Amorc, anabbreviated form of the mime,The Ancient and Mystical OrderRosae Crucís (Order of the RosyCross). In moat states theaociety ia incorporated aa a collegeaa well aa a fraternal order, andcoursee of instruction are avail

able to membera. The order waafirst establiahed in America atPhiladelphia in 1693. BenjamínFranklin and Thomas JelTersonwere among ita early oíficera. TheImperator of the order for thoUnited Statea ia Dr. H. Spencer * Lewís, San José, Calif.

Rosln. See Resins.Roskilde, a town on the island

of Zealand, Denmark, at the heaflof the Roskilde Fiord, 10 m. w. ofCopenhagen. It contains a niagnificent cathedral, erected 107484, rebuilt in the 12th century and

eontaining the tomba of Danishkings. Pop., 13,540.Itoslavl, district towTi in the

Gov. of Smolensk, Russia, on theOster R., 73 m. s . e . of Smolensk.It manufacturea oil and tobáceo.Pop., 25,992.

Roslln, or Rosslyn, village of Mídlothian, Scotland, ovcrkxiking the beauliful valley of thoNorth Esk, 4*^ m. a.w. of Dalkeith. It is famoua for its eollegíate chapel, dating from 1446 andcommemorated in Sir WalterScott’s bailad of Rosabelle.

Roslyn, a city in KittitaaCounty, Wash., 106 m. a . e . ofSeattlc . It is a commercial townand the center of the ehief coal

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