ALFRED WILLIAM POLLARD, M.A.

Assistant Keeper of Printed Books, British Museum. Fellow of King's College,
London. Hon. Secretary Bibliographical Society. Editor of Books about Books; Bibliography and Bibliology.
and Bibliographica. Joint-editor of the Library. Chief Editor of the "Globe

Chaucer.

Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford; Fellow of the British Academy. Speaker's
Lecturer in Biblical Studies in the University of Oxford, 1906-1909. First Editor
of the Journal of Theological Studies, 1899-1902. Author of "Chronology of the
New Testament," and "Greek Patristic Commentaries on the Pauline Epistles
in Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible, &c.

REV. CLAUDE HERMANN WALTER JOHNS, M.A., LITT.D.

Master of St Catharine's College, Cambridge. Lecturer in Assyriology, Queens'
College, Cambridge, and King's College, London. Author of Assyrian Deeds and Babylonian Law.
Documents of the 7th Century B.C.; The Oldest Code of Laws; Babylonian and Assyrian
Laws; Contracts and Letters; &c.

SIR CHARLES JAMES LYALL, K.C.S.I., C.I.E., LL.D. (Edin.).

Secretary, Judicial and Public Department, India Office. Fellow of King's

College, London. Secretary to Government of India in Home Department, 1889- Bihārī Lal.
1894. Chief Commissioner, Central Provinces, India, 1895-1898. Author of
Translations of Ancient Arabic Poetry; &c.

CHEDOMILLE MIJATOVICH.

C. Pl.

C. R. B.

C. W. W.

D. B. Ma.

D. C. B.

D. F. T.

D. G. H.

D. H.

Senator of the Kingdom of Servia. Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Pleni-
potentiary of the King of Servia to the Court of St James's, 1895-1900, and 1902–
1903.

Belgrade.

REV. CHARLES PLUMMER, M.A.

Fellow and Chaplain of Corpus Christi College, Oxford. Ford's Lecturer, 1901. Bede.
Author of Life and Times of Alfred the Great; &c.

CHARLES RAYMOND BEAZLEY, M.A., D.LITT., F.R.G.S., F.R.HIST.S.
Professor of Modern History in the University of Birmingham. Formerly Fellow Beatus;
of Merton College, Oxford, and University Lecturer in the History of Geography.
Lothian prizeman (Oxford), 1889. Lowell Lecturer, Boston, 1908. Author of
Henry the Navigator; The Dawn of Modern Geography; &c.

SIR CHARLES WILLIAM WILSON, K.C.B., K.C.M.G., F.R.S. (1836-1907).

Behaim.

Major-General, Royal Engineers. Secretary to the North American Boundary
Commission, 1858-1862. British Commissioner on the Servian Boundary Com: Beirut (in part).

mission. Director-General of the Ordnance Survey, 1886-1894. Director-General
of Military Education, 1895-1898. Author of From Korti to Khartoum; Life of
Lord Clive; &c.

D. Ma.

D. S. M.

D. S.-S.

E. B.

E. Br.

E. CL.

REV. DUGALD MACFADYEN, M.A.

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Minister of South Grove Congregational Church, Highgate. Director of the London Berry, Charles Albert.
Missionary Society.

E. C. B.

EF. S.

Assistant-Keeper, Victoria and Albert Museum, South Kensington. Member of
Council, Japan Society. Author of numerous works on art subjects; Joint-editor Beardsley, Aubrey Vincent.

of Bell's "Cathedral Series.

E. H. M.

Ed. M.

E. Ma.

E. M. T.

E. N. S.

E. Pr.

E. To.

E. V.

EDWARD GRANVILLE BROWNE, M.A., M.R.C.S., M.R.A.S.

Baggesen; Ballade;
Barnfield;

Beaumont, Sir John;
Belgium: Literature;

Biography.

Sir Thomas Adams's Professor of Arabic and Fellow of Pembroke College, Cam-
bridge. Fellow of the British Academy. Author of A Traveller's Narrative, Bábiism.
written to Illustrate the Episode of the Báb; The New History of Mirzá Ali Muhammed
the Báb; Literary History of Persia; &c.

Lecturer and Assistant Librarian, and formerly Fellow of Pembroke College, Bustarnae.
Cambridge. University Lecturer in Palaeography.

EDUARD MEYER, D.LITT. (Oxon.), LL.D., PH.D.

Professor of Ancient History in the University of Berlin. Author of Geschichte des
Alterthums; Geschichte des alten Ägyptens; Die Ísraeliten und ihre Nachbarstamme; &c.
EDWARD MANSON.

Bactria; Bagoas;
Bahram; Balash;
Behistun.

Barrister-at-Law. Joint-editor of Journal of Comparative Legislation, Author of Bankruptcy: Comparative Law.
Short View of the Law of Bankruptcy; &c.

SIR EDWARD MAUNDE THOMPSON, G.C.B., D.C.L., LL.D., LITT.D.

Director and Principal Librarian, British Museum, 1888-1909. Fellow of the British
Academy. Corresponding Member of the Institute of France and of the Royal

Prussian Academy of Sciences. Author of Handbook of Greek and Latin Palaeo- Autographs.
graphy. Editor of the Chronicon Angliae, &c. Joint-editor of Publications of the
Palaeographical Society.

F. C. B.

F. C. C.

ETHEL RED LEONARD TAUNTONS 1997 Benedict; History of the Jesuits in England. {

Rev. Edmund VENABLES, M.A., D.D. (1819-1895).

Canon and Precentor of Lincoln. Author of Episcopal Palaces of England.
FRANCIS CRAWFORD BURKITT, M.A., D.D.

Norrisian Professor of Divinity, Cambridge. Fellow of the British Academy.
Part-editor of The Four Gospels in Syriac transcribed from the Sinaitic
Palimpsest. Author of The Gospel History and its Transmission; Early Eastern
Christianity; &c.

FREDERICK CORNWALLIS CONYBEARE, M.A., D.TH. (Giessen).

Fellow of the British Academy. Formerly Fellow of University College, Oxford.
Author of The Ancient Armenian Texts of Aristotle; Myth, Magic and Morals; &c.

Barracks.

Azurara;
Barros.

Baronius.

{Basilica (in part).

Bible: New Testament, Higher
Criticism.

Baptism.

F. P.

See the biographical article: LUGARD, SIR F. J. D.

FRANK PODMORE, M.A. (d. 1910).

Beaconsfield, Earl of.

Bernicia.

Bes.

Bauchi.

Pembroke College, Oxford. Author of Studies in Psychical Research; Modern Automatic Writing.

Spiritualism; &c.

F.R.M.

FRANCIS RICHARD MAUNSELL, C.M.G.

Basutoland (in part);

Bahr-el-Ghazal (in part);

Bechuanaland (in part).

Lieut.-Col., Royal Artillery. Military Vice-Consul, Sivas, Trebizond, Van (Kurd-Baiburt;
istan), 1897-1898. Military Attaché, British Embassy, Constantinople, 1901-1905. Bashkala.
Author of Central Kurdistan; &c.

G. B. B.

G. B. G.

G. E.

GERARD BALDWIN BROWN, M.A.

Professor of Fine Arts, University of Edinburgh. Formerly Fellow of Brasenose Basilica (in part).

College, Oxford. Author of From Schola to Cathedral; The Fine Arts; &c.

GEORGE BUCHANAN GRAY, M.A., D.D., D.LITT. (Oxon.)

Professor of Hebrew and Old Testament Exegesis, Mansfield College, Oxford.

Examiner in Hebrew, University of Wales. Author of The Divine Discipline of

Israel; &c.

REV. GEORGE EDMUNDSON, M.A., F.R.HIST.S.

(Bible: Old Testament,

Textual Criticism, and

Higher Criticism.

Formerly Fellow and Tutor of Brasenose College, Oxford. Ford's Lecturer, 1909. Belgium: History,

Hon. Member Dutch Historical Society, and Foreign Member, Netherlands Associa-

tion of Literature.

Professor of English Literature. Queen's University, Belfast. Author of The Days Barbour, John.
of James IV.; The Transition Period; Specimens of Middle Scots; &c.

GEORGE HERBERT CARPENTER, B.Sc.

Professor of Zoology in the Royal College of Science, Dublin. President of the Bee.
Association of Economic Biologists. Member of the Royal Irish Academy. Author
of Insects: their Structure and Life; &c.

GEORGE EDWARD BATEMAN SAINTSBURY, LL.D., D.Litt.
See the biographical article: SAINTSBURY, G. É. B.

Balzac, H. de.

(Avempace; Averroes;

Avicenna; Baidāwī;

Warden of Camden College, Sydney, N.S.W. Formerly Tutor in Hebrew and Old Balādhuri; Behā ud-Din;

Testament History at Mansfield College, Oxford.

Beha ud-Din Zuhair;

Birūni.

Joint-editor of the New English Dictionary (Oxford). Fellow of the British Academy. Beowulf.
Author of The Story of the Goths; The Making of English; &c.

Formerly Scholar of Corpus Christi College, Oxford. Editor of the 11th edition of Balfour, A. J.
the Encyclopaedia Britannica. Co-editor of the 10th edition.

SIR HENRY CRESWICKE RAWLINSON, BART., K.C.B.
See the biographical article: RAWLINSON, SIR H. C.

H. H. H.

H. H. J.

H. M. R.

H. M. W.

H. N. D.

H. W. C. D

H. W. S.

L. A.

J. An.

HERBERT HENSLEY HENSON, M.A., D.D.

Canon of Westminster Abbey and Rector of St Margaret's, Westminster. Proctor
in Convocation since 1902. Formerly Fellow of All Souls' College, Oxford. Select
Preacher (Oxford), 1895-1896; (Cambridge), 1901. Author of A postolic Christianity;
Moral Discipline in the Christian Church; The National Church; Christ and the Nation;
&c.

SIR HARRY HAMILTON JOHNSTON, D.Sc., G.C.M.G., K.C.B.
See the biographical article: JOHNSTON, SIR H. H.

HUGH MUNRO Ross.

Bible, English: Revised Version.

Bantu Languages.

Formerly Exhibitioner of Lincoln College, Oxford. Editor of The Times Engineering Bell: House Bell.
Supplement. Author of British Railways.

H. MARSHALL WARD, M.A., F.R.S., D.Sc. (d. 1905).
Formerly Professor of Botany, Cambridge. President of the British Mycological
Society. Author of Timber and some of its Diseases; The Oak; Sach's Lectures on
the Physiology of Plants; Grasses; Disease in Plants; &c.
HENRY NEWTON DICKSON, M.A., D.Sc., F.R.G.S.

Professor of Geography, University College, Reading. Author of Elementary
Meteorology; Papers on Oceanography; &c.

HENRY WILLIAM CARLESS DAVIS, M.A.

Fellow and Tutor of Balliol College, Oxford. Fellow of All Souls', Oxford, 1895-
1902. Author of Charlemagne; England under the Normans and Angevins, 1066–1272.

Bacteriology (in part);
Berkeley, Miles Joseph.

Baltic Sea.

Becket;

Benedictus Abbas.

Austria-Hungary: History (in

part);

Bertani.

Bahya.

Barrow.

King's College, Cambridge. Correspondent of The Times in South-Eastern Europe. Balkan Peninsula.
Commander of the Orders of Prince Danilo of Montenegro and of the Saviour of
Greece, and Officer of the Order of St Alexander of Bulgaria.

JAMES FITZMAURICE-KELLY, LITT.D., F.R.HIST.S.

Gilmour Professor of Spanish Language and Literature, Liverpool University.
Norman McColl Lecturer, Cambridge University. Fellow of the British Academy,
Member of the Council of the Hispanic Society of America. Knight Commander of
the Order of Alphonso XII. Author of A History of Spanish Literature.
JOHN FREDERICK STENNING, M.A.

Dean and Fellow of Wadham College, Oxford. University Lecturer in Aramaic.
Lecturer in Divinity and Hebrew at Wadham College.

Ayala y Herrera;
Bello.

Bible: Old Testament: Texts and Versions.

Baron; Baronet;
Battle Abbey Roll;

Author of Feudal England; Studies in Peerage and Family History; Peerage and Bayeux Tapestry;
Pedigree; &c.

Bacon, Francis (in part);
Berkeley, George (in part).

f Bed: Furniture;

Bérain.

Bhamo.

Bailif: Bailli;
Basoche.

J. P. Pe.

J. R. P.

J. Sm.*

J. S. F.

J. T. Be.

J. Vn.

J. V. B.

J. W. Ho.

K. L.

K. S.

REV. JOHN PUNNETT PETERS, PH.D., D.D.

Canon Residentiary, Cathedral of New York. Formerly Professor of Hebrew,
University of Pennsylvania. In charge of Expedition of University of Pennsylvania
conducting excavations at Nippur, 1888-1895. Author of Scriptures, Hebrew and
Christian; Nippur, or Explorations and Adventures on the Euphrates; &c.
SIR JOHN RAHERE PAGET, BART., K.C.

Bagdad: Vilayet;
Bagdad: City;
Basra.

Bencher of the Inner Temple. Formerly Gilbart Lecturer on Banking. Author of Banks and Banking:

The Law of Banking; &c.

JOHN SMITH, C.B.

English Law.

Formerly Inspector-General in Companies' Liquidation, 1890-1904, and Inspector- Bankruptcy.
General in Bankruptcy.

JOHN SMITH FLETT, D.SC., F.G.S.

Petrographer to the Geological Survey. Formerly Lecturer on Petrology in Edin- Basalt;
burgh University. Neill Medallist of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Bigsby Batholite.
Medallist of the Geological Society of London.

JOHN T. BEALBY.

Jeint author of Stanford's Europe. Formerly Editor of the Scottish Geographical
Magazine. Translator of Sven Hedin's Through Asia, Central Asia and Tibet, &c.
JULIEN VINSON.

Baikal;
Bessarabia (in part).

Formerly Professor of Hindustani and Tamil at the École des Langues Orientales, Basques (in part).
Paris. Author of Le Basque et les langues mexicaines; &c.

JAMES VERNON BARTLET, M.A., D.D. (St Andrews).

Professor of Church History, Mansfield College, Oxford. Author of The Apostolic
Age; &c.

M. H. C.

See the biographical article: Duchesne, L. M. O.

LEONARD JAMES SPENCER, M.A., F.G.S.

Assistant, Department of Mineralogy, Natural History Museum, South Kensington.
Formerly Scholar of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, and Harkness Scholar.
Editor of the Mineralogical Magazine.

LUIGI VILLARI.

Italian Foreign Office (Emigration Dept.). Formerly Newspaper Correspondent
in East of Europe. Author of Italian Life in Town and Country; &c.

LEONARD WILLIAM KING, M.A., F.S.A.

Assistant to the Keeper of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities, British Museum.
Lecturer in Assyrian at King's College, London. Conducted Excavations at
Kuyunjik (Nineveh) for British Museum. Author of Assyrian Chrestomathy;
Annals of the Kings of Assyria; Studies in Eastern History; Babylonian Magic and
Sorcery; &c.

MAURICE A. CANNEY, M.A.

Assistant Lecturer in Semitic Languages in the University of Manchester: Formerly
Exhibitioner of St John's College, Oxford. Pusey and Ellerton Hebrew Scholar
(Oxford), 1892; Kennicott Hebrew Scholar, 1895; Houghton Syriac Prize, 1896.
MARGARET BRYANT.

SIR MACKENZIE DALZELL CHALMERS, K.C.B., C.S.I., M.A.
Trinity College, Oxford. Barrister-at-Law. Formerly Permanent

Barnabas.

Austria-Hungary: History;
Bamberger; Bebel;
Benedetti; Beust.

Bible: New Testament: Texts and Versions and Textual Criticism.

Bagpipe; Banjo;

Barbiton; Barrel-organ;

Bass Clarinet; Basset Horn;
Bassoon; Batyphone.

{Beecher, Henry Ward.
{Benedict (I.-X.)

of State for Home Department. Author of Digest of the Law of Bill Under Secretary Bill of Exchange.

MOSES GASTER, PH.D. (Leipzig).

Chief Rabbi of the Sephardic Communities of England. Vice-President, Zionist

Congress, 1898, 1899, 1900. Ilchester Lecturer at Oxford on Slavonic and By-Bassarab.
zantine Literature, 1886 and 1891. Author of A New Hebrew Fragment of Ben-Sira;

The Hebrew Version of the Secretum Secretorum of Aristotle.

MONTAGUE HUGHES CRACKANTHORPE, K.C., D.C.L.

Honorary Fellow, St John's College, Oxford. Bencher of Lincoln's Inn. President

of the Eugenics Education Society. Formerly Member of the General Council Bering Sea Arbitration.
of the Bar and of the Council of Legal Education, and Standing Counsel to the
University of Oxford.