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CENTRAL PROVINCES 406 CEREALIA among other objects of interest, the Mall, the Croton Reservoirs, Cleopatra's Needle (the Obelisk), the Metropolitan Museum of Art, zoological and botanical gardens, many statues, the Arsenal, and several natural and artificial lakes. CENTRAL PROVINCES and BERAR, an extensive British territory in India. They became a separate administration in 1861, and are under the authority of a chief commissioner. Their total area is about 130,000 square miles, of which about 100,000 square miles are British territory, and about 31,000 the terri- tory of native protected states, 15 in number. For administrative purposes the province is divided into four com- missionerships, Jabalpur (Jubbulpore), Nagpur, Narbada (Nerbudda), and Chattisgarh. Fop. about 16,000,000, chiefly Hindus. The chief town and seat of the central administration is Nagpur. CENTRAL UNIVERSITY OF KEN- TUCKY, an educational institution in Danville, Ky., organized in 1819, under the auspices of the Presbyterian Church ; reported at the close of 1919: professors and instructors, 16; students, 269; presi- dent, William A. Ganfield, LL. D. CENTRAL WESLEYAN COLLEGE, a co-educational institution in Warren- ton, Mo., organized in 1864, under the auspices of the Methodist Episcopal Church; reported at the end of 1919: professors and instructors, 22; students, 325; nvmiber of graduates, 810; presi- dent. Otto E. Kriege, D. D. CENTRIFUGAL, a machine used in clarification and filtration, especially of sugar. The essential part is a circular vessel so constructed as to be revolved at a high rate of speed, which deposits the matter to be removed at the bottom, allowing the clear fluid to be drawn off. CENTURY-PLANT, a popular name of the Agave americdna, or American aloe. CEOS (sometimes called by the Italian- ized name of Zea or Tzia), one of the Cyclades, in the ^gean Sea, 14 miles off the Attic coast. It is 13 miles lo"^ 8 broad and 39 square miles in area. The central and culminating point is Mount Elias, 1,863 feet high. It is fairly fer- tile, raising fruit, wine, honey, and va- lonia. Pop. about 4,000. CEPHALIZATION, in biology, a term proposed to denote a tendency in the de- velopment of animals toward a localiza- tion of important parts in the neighbor- hood of the head, as by the transfer of locomotive members or limbs to the head (in the Cephalopoda, for example). The term is also used to indicate the degree in which the brain dominates over the other parts of the animal structure. CEPHALONIA (ancient, KephaUenia) , an island of Greece, the largest of the Ionian islands, W. of the Morea, at the entrance of the Gulf of Patras, about 31 miles in length, and from 5 to 12 in breadth; area, about 300 square miles; pop. about 75,000. The coastline is very irregular and deeply marked with inden- tations, and the surface is rugged and mountainous, rising in Monte Negro, the ancient .^nos, to a height of 5,380 feet. There is rather a deficiency of water on the island. The principal towns are Ar- gostoli (pop. about 14,000), and Lixuri (pop. about 6,000). The chief exports are currants, oil, and grain; wine, cheese etc., are also exported. The manufac«  tures are inconsiderable. Earthquakes are not infrequent. CEPHISSUS, one of the two rivers which water the Athenian plain. It rises on the W. slope of Mount Pentelicus and the S. side of Mount Parnes, and flows past Athens on the W. into the Saronic Gulf near Phalerum. CERAM, an island in the Moluccas, W. of New Guinea; area about 7,000 square miles; pop. about 75,000. It is about 200 miles long with an average width of 35 miles. Its interior is trav- ersed by mountain ranges from 6,000 to 8,000 feet high, but is little known. The vegetation is luxuriant, the sago-palm supplying the chief food of the inhabit- ants as well as an article of trade. The inhabitants of the coast are of Malay origin, the interior being peopled by Al- foories. It is under the Dutch. CERATE, the name of an external medicament, more or less liquid, having for its basis wax and oil. Simple cerate consists of 8 ounces of lard and 4 of white wax melted together and stirred till cold. CERBERUS, the three-headed dog which guards the entrance of the king- dom of Hades and Persephone. Or- pheus, when he descended into the in- fernal regions in search of Eurydice, lulled him to sleep with his lyre; and Hercules dragged him from the gate of Hades, when he went to redeem Alceste. The fellow-monster of Cerberus was Or- thros. The names of these dogs appear in the Vedic poems under the forms of Sarvara and Vritra, the two dogs of Yama. CEREALIA, the festival of Cere^, celebrated at Rome.