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R. N. B.

Robert Nisbet Bain (d. 1909). Assistant Librarian, British Museum, 1883-1909. Author of Scandinavia: the Political History of Denmark, Norway and Sweden, 1513-1900; The First Romanovs, 1613-1725; Slavonic Europe: the Political History of Poland and Russia from 1469 to 1796; &c.

Nádasdy; Nansen, Hans; Nikon.

R. S. B.

Sir Robert Stawell Ball, F.R.S., LL.D. Lowndean Professor of Astronomy and Geometry, University of Cambridge. Director of the Cambridge Observatory and Fellow of King’s College. Royal Astronomer of Ireland, 1874—1892. Author of The Story of the Heavens; &c.

Nebular Theory.

R. S. P.

Reginald Stuart Poole, LL.D. See the biographical article: Poole, Reginald Stuart.

Numismatics (in part).

R. S. T.

Ralph Stockman Tarr. Professor of Physical Geography, Cornell University. Special Field Assistant of the U.S. Geological Survey. Author of Physical Geography of New York State.

New York (in part).

S. A. C.

Stanley Arthur Cook, M.A. Lecturer in Hebrew and Syriac, and formerly Fellow, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. Editor for the Palestine Exploration Fund. Examiner in Hebrew and Aramaic, London University, 1904-1908. Council. of Royal Asiatic Society, 1904-1905. Author of Glossary of Aramaic Inscriptions; The Law of Moses and the Code of Hammurabi; Critical Notes on Old Testament History; Religion of Ancient Palestine; &c.

Nabataeans (in part); Nazarite (in part).

St C.

Viscount St Cyres. See the biographical article, Iddesleigh, 1st Earl of.

Nicole.

S. H. V.*

Sydney Howard Vines, M.A., D.Sc., F.R.S., F.L.S. Professor of Botany in the University of Oxford. Fellow of Magdalen College. Oxford. Hon. Fellow of Christ’s College, Cambridge. Fellow of the University of London. Author of Students Text Book of Botany; &c.

Naegeli.

S. K.

Sten Konow, Ph.D, Professor of Indian Philology in the University of Christiania. Officier de l’Académie Française. Author of Stamavidhana Brahmana; The Karpuramanjari; Munda and Dravindian.

Mundās.

S. N.

Simon Newcomb, D.Sc., LL.D. See the biographical article: Newcomb, Simon.

Neptune (Planet).

T. As.

Thomas Ashby, M.A., Litt.D. Director of British School of Archaeology at Rome. Formerly Scholar of Christ Church, Oxford. Craven Fellow, 1897. Conington Prizeman, 1906. Member of the Imperial German Archaeological Institute. Author of The Classical Topography of the Roman Campagna.

Nemorensis Lacus; Nepi; Nola; Nomentana, Via; Nomentum; Nora; Norba; Novara; Nuceria Alfaterna; Nuoro.

T. A. C.

Timothy Augustine Coghlan, I.S.O. Agent-General for New South Wales. Government Statistician, New South Wales 1836-1905. Author of Wealth and Progress of New South Wales; Statistical Account of Australia and New Zealand; &c.

New South Wales: Geography and Statistics.

T. A. I.

Thomas Allan Ingram, M.A., LL.D. Trinity College, Dublin.

Name: Law; Octroi.

T. A. J.

Thomas Athol Joyce, M.A. Assistant in Department of Ethnography, British Museum. Hon. Sec. Anthropological Society.

Negro (in part).

T. Ba.

Sir Thomas Barclay. Member of the Institute of International Law. Member of the Supreme Council of the Congo Free State. Officer of the Legion of Honour. Author of Problems of International Practice and Diplomacy; &c. M.P. for Blackburn, 1910.

Neutrality; North Sea Fisheries Convention.

T. F. C.

Theodore Freylinghuysen Collier, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of History, Williams College, Williamstown, Mass.

Neo-Caesarea, Synod of.

T. H.

Thomas Hodgkin, LL.D., Litt.D. See the biographical article: Hodgkin, Thomas.

Narses (Roman General).

T. H. H.*

Sir Thomas Hungerford Holdich, K.C.M.G., K.C.I.E., D.Sc., F.R.S. Colonel in the Royal Engineers. Superintendent, Frontier Surveys, India, 1892-1898. Gold Medallist, R.G.S. (London), 1887. H.M. Commissioner for the Perso-Beluch Boundary, 1896. Author of The Indian Borderland; The Gates of India; &c.

Muscat; North-West Frontier Province.

T. M. L.

Rev. Thomas Martin Lindsay, M.A., D.D. Principal and Professor of Church History, United Free Church College, Glasgow. Author of Life of Luther; &c.

Occam, William of.

T. W. R. D.

Thomas William Rhys Davids, LL.D., Ph.D. Professor of Comparative Religion, Manchester University. President of the Pali Text Society. Fellow of the British Academy. Secretary and Librarian of Royal Asiatic Society, 1885-1902. Author of Buddhism; Sacred Books of the Buddhists; Early Buddhism; Buddhist India; Dialogues of the Buddha; &c.

Nāgārjuna; Nikāya.

V. M.

Victor Charles Mahillon. Principal of the Conservatoire Royal de Musique at Brussels. Chevalier of the Legion of Honour.

Oboe (in part).