J. S. F.
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John Smith Flett, D.Sc., F.G.S.
- Petrographer to the Geological Survey. Formerly Lecturer on Petrology in Edinburgh University. Neill Medallist of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Bigsby Medallist of the Geological Society of London.
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Borolanite; Breccia.
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J. T. M.
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James Tayler Milton, M.I.C.E.
- Chief Engineer Surveyor to Lloyd’s Registry of Shipping. Vice-President, Institute of Naval Architects. Member of Council, Institute of Marine Engineers. Author of many papers on Marine Engineering subjects.
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Boiler.
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Boniface, Saint.
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J. W. D.
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Captain J. Whitly Dixon, R.N.
- Nautical Assessor to Court of Appeal since 1906. Formerly Staff Commander, Medway Fleet Reserve.
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Buoy; Cable.
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J. W. He.
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James Wycliffe Headlam, M.A.
- Staff Inspector of Secondary Schools under the Board of Education. Formerly Fellow of King’s College, Cambridge. Professor of Greek and Ancient History at Queen’s College, London. Author of Bismarck and the Foundation of the German Empire; &c.
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Bismarck; Bucher, Lothar.
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K. G. J.
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Kingsley Garland Jayne.
- Sometime Scholar of Wadham College, Oxford. Matthew Arnold Prizeman, 1903. Author of Vasco da Gama and his Successors.
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Bosnia and Herzegovina; British Honduras.
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Brazil: History (in part).
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Bombardon; Bow; Buccina; Bugle; Bumbulum.
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Bohemia: History and Literature.
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Burne-Jones, Sir E. B.
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Boniface (Popes I.–VII.).
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L. F. S.
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Leslie Frederic Scott, K.C., M.A.
- New College, Oxford. Joint Hon. Secretary of International Maritime Committee.
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Broker.
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L. F. V.-H.
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Leveson Francis Vernon-Harcourt, M.A., M.Inst.C.E. (1839–1907).
- Professor of Civil Engineering at University College, London, 1882–1905. British Member of Jury for Civil Engineering, Paris Exhibition, 1900. Author of Rivers and Canals; Harbours and Docks; Civil Engineering as Applied in Construction; &c.
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Breakwater; Caisson.
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L. G.
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Laurence Ginnell, M.P.
- Barrister, Middle Temple and Irish Bar. Author of Brehon Laws; Land and Liberty; &c. M.P. for North Westmeath since 1906.
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Brehon Laws.
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L. J. S.
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Leonard James Spencer, M.A.
- Assistant in Department of Mineralogy, Natural History Museum, South Kensington. Formerly Scholar of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, and Harkness Scholar. Editor of the Mineralogical Magazine. Author of English translations of M. Bauer’s Precious Stones and R. Brauns’s Mineral Kingdom.
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Bismuthite; Blende; Boracite; Bournonite; Brochantite; Bromlite; Bronzite; Brookite; Brucite; Bytownite; Calamine; Calcite.
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L. R. D.
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Lawrence Robert Dicksee, M. Com. (Birmingham), F.C.A.
- Lecturer, London School of Economics and Political Science. Formerly Professor of Accounting at Birmingham University. Author of Auditing; Advanced Accounting; Book-keeping; &c.
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Book-keeping.
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Browning, Robert.
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L. V.*
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Luigi Villari.
- Italian Foreign Office (Emigration Department). Formerly Newspaper Correspondent in East of Europe, Italian Vice-Consul in New Orleans, 1906; Philadelphia, 1907; and Boston, U.S.A., 1907–1910. Author of Italian Life in Town and Country; Giovanni Segantini; Russia under the Great Shadow; Fire and Sword in the Caucasus; &c.
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Borgia, Cesare; Borgia, Lucrezia; Cagliostro.
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Bunyan, John.
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M. Bat.
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Miss Mary Bateson (1865–1906).
- Formerly Fellow of Newnham College, Cambridge. Author of Medieval England; Borough Customs; &c.
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Borough: English.
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Caesar: Medieval Legends.
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M. G.
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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 Byzantine Literature, 1886 and 1891. President, Folklore Society of England. Vice-President, Anglo-Jewish Association. Author of History of Rumanian Popular Literature; A New Hebrew Fragment of Ben-Sira; The Hebrew Version of the Secretum Secretorum of Aristotle.
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Bogomils; Brancovan.
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