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It was also the first edition of Britannica to include biographies of living people. Even though the overall length of the work was about the same as that of its predecessor, the number of articles had increased from 17,000 to 40,000. It was the first not to include long treatise-length articles. It was the first edition of Britannica to be issued with a comprehensive index volume in which was added a categorical index, where like topics were listed. The print type was kept in galley proofs and subject to continual updating until publication. It was the first to be published complete, instead of the previous method of volumes being released as they were ready. The eleventh edition introduced a number of changes of the format of the Britannica. The 1911 edition was the first edition of the encyclopædia to include more than just a handful of female contributors, with 34 women contributing articles to the edition. Most of the work was done by journalists, British Museum scholars and other scholars. The best-known authors generally contributed only a single article or part of an article.
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Some of the book-length articles were divided into smaller parts for easier reference, yet others much abridged. Many articles were carried over from the 9th edition, some with minimal updating. Among the then lesser-known contributors were some who would later become distinguished, such as Ernest Rutherford and Bertrand Russell. Huxley, James Hopwood Jeans and William Michael Rossetti. Bury, Algernon Charles Swinburne, John Muir, Peter Kropotkin, T. Some articles were written by the best-known scholars of the time, such as Edmund Gosse, J.
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The initials of the encyclopedia's contributors appear at the end of selected articles or at the end of a section in the case of longer articles, such as that on China, and a key is given in each volume to these initials.