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INITIALS USED IN THIS VOLUME TO IDENTIFY CONTRIBUTORS, WITH
THE HEADINGS OF THE ARTICLES TO WHICH
THESE INITIALS ARE SIGNED

A. Ab.A. Abbott.
Formerly Assistant Secretary, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, South Kensington, London.
Continuation Schools (in part).
A. B. K.Arthur Berriedale Keith, D.C.L., D.Litt.
Regius Professor of Sanskrit and Comparative Philology, Edinburgh University. Secretary to the Crown Agents for the Colonies, 1903–5. Author of The Belgian Congo and the Berlin Act; Dominion Home Rule in Practice; War Government of the British Dominions; etc.
Belgian Congo; British Empire: History.
A. C.Albert Calmès.
Professor at the University of Luxembourg. Member of the League of Nations Commission of Inquiry into Albanian Affairs.
Albania.
A. C. B.Lieutenant-Commander Archibald Colquhoun Bell, R.N.
Naval Assistant to the Official Historian of Naval Operations during the World War. Formerly Editor of The Journal of the Royal United Service Institution.
Blockade.
A. C. D.Alfred C. Dewar, R.N. (ret.), B. Litt.
Gold Medallist, Royal United Service Institution. Late of the Historical Section, Naval Staff, Admiralty, London.
Admiralty, Board of; Coronel, Battle of; Dogger Bank, Battle of the.
A. C. I.Andrew Conway Ivy, Ph.D., M.D.
Nathan Smith Davis Professor of Physiology and Head of the Division of Physiology and Pharmacology, Northwestern University Medical School, Illinois.
Anaemia.
A. C. T.A. C. Thaysen, Ph.D.
Member of the Staff of the Bacteriological Laboratory, Royal Naval Cordite Factory, Holton Heath, Wareham, Dorset.
Bacteriology (in part).
A. Cu.General Sir Arthur William Currie, G.C.M.G., K.C.B., LL.D.
Principal of McGill University, Montreal. Formerly General Officer commanding the Canadian Corps in France.
Canada: Defence and Education.
A. D. H.Sir A. Daniel Hall, K.C.B., F.R.S.
Chief Scientific Adviser and Director General of the Intelligence Department, Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, London. Author of The Soil; Fertilisers and Manures; A Pilgrimage of British Farming; Agriculture after the War; etc.
Agriculture: General Survey.
A. D. L.Alexander Dunlop Lindsay.
Master of Balliol College, Oxford. Professor of Moral Philosophy, Glasgow University, 1922–4. Author of The Philosophy of Bergson; etc.
Adult Education: Great Britain.
A. Du.Albert Dubarry.
Editor of La Volonté (Paris).
Caillaux, Joseph.
A. E. A.Algernon Edward Aspinall, C.M.G., C.B.E.
Secretary to the West India Committee and to the Imperial College of Tropical Agriculture. Author of The British West Indies; The West Indies and Guiana; etc.
Bahamas.
A. E. M. F.Alfred Edye Manning Foster.
Late Proprietor and Editor of The Country Gentleman, and Land and Water Illustrated. Author of Auction Bridge Made Clear; Auction Bridge and Variations; etc.
Bridge, Auction (in part).
A. E. Mo.Arthur E. Morgan.
President of Antioch College. Formerly Chief Engineer of the Miami Conservancy. Author of Education—The Mastery of the Arts of Life; New Light on the Boyhood of Lincoln; The Human Goal of Education.
Antioch College.

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A. E. T.*A. E. Twentyman.
Formerly Librarian and Information Officer, Board of Education, London.
Education: Literature.
A. Fl.Alexander Fleming, M.B., F.R.C.S.
Director of the Department of Systematic Bacteriology, St. Mary’s Hospital, London.
Antiseptics.
A. F. P.Albert Frederick Pollard, M.A.
Professor of English History and Chairman of the Institute of Historical Research, University of London. Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. Assistant editor, Dictionary of National Biography 1893–1901. President of Historical Association 1912–5. Author of The Reign of Henry VII. from Contemporary Sources; A Short History of the Great War; The Evolution of Parliament; etc.
English History.
A. F. Pr.Alfred Francis Pribram, Ph.D.
Professor of Modern History in the University of Vienna.
Europe (in part); etc.
A. F. S.Alexander Faulkner Shand.
Author of The Foundation of Character.
Character.
A. F. W.Arthur F. Woodward.
Editor of The Produce Markets Review (London).
Canning (in part).
A. Fy.Alexander Findlay, D.Sc., F.I.C.
Professor of Chemistry, University of Aberdeen. Formerly Professor of Chemistry, University College of Wales, Aberystwyth. Author of The Phase Rule and its Applications; Practical Physical Chemistry; etc.
Colloids.
A. G. L.Alfred Goodman Levy, M.D., M.R.C.P., M.R.C.S.
Physician to the City of London Hospital for Diseases of the Chest. Late Anaesthetist, Guy’s Hospital, London.
Anaesthetics.
A. G. P.Arthur George Perkin, F.R.S., F.R.S. (Edin.), F.I.C.
Professor of Colour Chemistry and Dyeing and Dean of the Faculty of Technology, University of Leeds. Davy Medallist of the Royal Society, London, 1925. Joint Author of The Natural Organic Colouring Matters.
Dyeing (in part).
A. Ha.Arthur Harden, D.Sc., Ph.D., F.R.S.
Professor of Bio-Chemistry and Head of the Bio-Chemical Department, Lister Institute, University of London. Author of Alcoholic Fermentation; Inorganic Chemistry for Advanced Students; etc.
Bacteriology (in part).
A. H. B.*Alfred H. Brooks, B.S., D.S.
Formerly Geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey, in Charge of Geologic and Topographic Surveys and Investigations of Mineral Resources in Alaska. Vice-Chairman of the First Alaska Railroad Commission.
Alaska (in part).
A. H. P.*Arthur Joseph Hungerford Pollen.
Director, Birmingham Small Arms Co. and other companies. Pioneer of naval fire control and writer on naval matters.
Beatty, Earl.
A. J. B. W.Alan John Bayard Wace, M.A.
Deputy Keeper Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Late Director, British School of Archaeology at Athens, and Norton Lecturer, American Archaeological Institute. Author of A Catalogue of the Sparta Museum; Prehistoric Thessaly; The Nomads of the Balkans.
Archaeology: Greece and Eastern Mediterranean; Athens.
A. J. Gl.Arthur James Glazebrook.
Lecturer on Finance, University of Toronto.
Canada: Finance.
A. J. T.Arnold Joseph Toynbee.
Professor of International History, University of London. Member of Middle Eastern Section, British Delegation to the Peace Conference at Paris. Koraes Professor of Byzantine and Modern Greek Language, Literature and History at the University of London, 1919–24. Author of Nationality and the War; A Survey of International Affairs, 1920–24; etc.
Aaland Is; Asia Minor; Dardanelles; etc.
A. L. Bo.Arthur Lyon Bowley, Sc.D., F.B.A.
Professor of Statistics at the London School of Economics. Formerly Professor of Mathematics and Economics, University College, Reading. Author of Elements of Statistics; An Elementary Manual of Statistics; Measurement of Social Phenomena; etc.
Cost of Living.
A. L. D.Arthur L. Dakyns, M.A.
Barrister-at-law.
Companies and Corporations; Co-Partnership.
A. Le.André Levinson.
Lecturer on Art at the Louvre and the Sorbonne, Paris.
Bakst, Léon.
A. Lo.*Adolf Lorenz.
Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Vienna. Formerly Director of the Clinic for Orthopaedic Surgery, Vienna. Inventor of the German plaster bed. Author of A New Method of Treatment of Irreducible Acquired or Congenital Hip Dislocations; etc.
Bloodless Surgery.
A. Ly.A. Loveday.
Member of the Economic and Financial Section, League of Nations, Geneva.
Balance of Payments.
A. No.*Arne Novak.
Literary Historian Critic. Professor of Czechoslovakian Literature at the Masaryk University of Brno (Brünn). Part author of A History of Czechoslovakian Literature.
Czech Literature.
A. P. R.A. P. Rowe.
Scientific Officer, Air Ministry, London. Lecturer in Air Navigation and Instruments, Imperial College of Science, London.
Aerial Navigation.
A. P. W.Colonel Archibald Percival Wavell, C.M.G., M.C.
General Staff Officer, War Office, London. British Military Attaché on the Caucasus Front, Nov. 1916–June 1917. General Staff Officer with Egyptian Expeditionary Force, July 1917–March 1918. Brigadier General, General Staff, with Egyptian Expeditionary Force, April 1918–20.
Brest-Litovsk, Battles of; Carpathians, Battles of the; Caucasus, Campaign in the; Dunajec-San, Battle of the; Eastern Front Campaigns.
A. R.Arthur Ransome.
Author and Journalist, Contributor to The Manchester Guardian; The English Review; The Fortnightly Review; etc. Author of Six Weeks in Russia: The Crisis in Russia; etc.
Brest-Litovsk, Treaty of.
A. Sa.A. Safrastian.
Formerly British Vice-Consul at Bitlis, Kurdistan.
Armenia.
A. S. D.Augustus Seiss Downing, M.A., L.H.D., LL.D.
Assistant Commissioner for Higher Education and Director of Professional Education, University of the State of New York, Albany.
Education: United States (in part).
A. S. E.Arthur Stanley Eddington, D.Sc., F.R.S.
Plumian Professor of Astronomy, Cambridge University. Director of the Observatory, Cambridge. Fellow of Trinity College. Senior Wrangler, 1904 and Smith’s Prizeman, 1907. President of the Royal Astronomical Society, London, 1921–3. Author of Stellar Movements and the Structure of the Universe; etc.
Astronomy.
A. Sr.Sir James Arthur Salter, K.C.B.
Director of the Economic and Finance section of the League of Nations. General Secretary to the Reparation Commission, 1920–2. Secretary of the British Department of the Supreme Economic Council, 1919. Secretary of the Allied Maritime Transport Council and Chairman of the Allied Maritime Transport Executive, 1918. Author of Allied Shipping Control; an Experiment in International Administration.
Control, Inter-Allied.
A. Th.Albert Thibaudet.
Professor of the History of French Literature in the University of Geneva. Literary Critic of La nouvelle revue française. Contributor to The London Mercury. Author of La Poésie de Stéphane Mallarmé, Trente ans de vie française; etc.
Barrès, Maurice; Bergson, H..
A. Th.*Albert Thomas.
Director of the International Labour Office, Geneva. Minister of Munitions in the French Government, 1916. Assistant Editor of L’Humanité, 1904. Author of Le Syndicalisme allemand; Histoire anecdotique du Travail.
Co-operation.
A. V.Auguste Vermeylen.
Professor of Modern Philology at the University of Ghent, Belgium. Member of the Belgian Senate.
Belgian Literature: Flemish; Belgium: Flemish Movement.
A. V. K.A. V. Kerrison, R.A.
Instructor in Gunnery and Mathematics, Artillery College, Woolwich, London.
Ballistics.
A. V. Le C.Albert von Le Coq.
Director, Asiatic Section of the Ethnological Museum, Berlin.
Archaeology: Central Asia and Eastern Asia.
A. W. A.Lieut.-Col. Alfred William Alcock, C.I.E., M.B., LL.D., F.R.S.
Indian Medical Service (Ret). Formerly Professor of Medical Zoology at the London School of Tropical Medicine. Author of A Naturalist in Indian Seas; Entomology for Medical Officers; etc.
Entomology, Medical.
A. W. H.*Arthur William Holland
Managing Editor (London office) of The Encyclopædia Britannica, 13th edition; member of the staff of the 11th edition, 1905–11.
Betting Tax.
A.W.H.E.W.Wing-Commander A. W. H. E. Wynn, O.B.E.
Member of the staff of the Intelligence Department of the British Air Ministry, 1916–22.
Air Forces: Great Britain; Air Ministry: Great Britain.
B. B.Bruce Bairnsfather.
Author and Journalist. Author of Fragments from France; The Better 'Ole; etc.
Cartoon.
B B. L.Benjamin Barr Lindsey.
Judge of the Juvenile Court of Denver, Colorado. Author of Problems of the Children; The Doughboy’s Religion; etc.
Children’s Courts (in part).
B. C. S.Bernard Christian Steiner, M.A., Ph.D., Litt.D.
Librarian, Enoch Pratt Free Library, Baltimore; Dean and Professor of Law, Baltimore Law School, 1900–4. Author of Education in Maryland; Institutions and Civil Government of Maryland; etc.
Baltimore.
B. E. P.Barthelémy Edmond Palat.
Formerly General of Brigade in the French Army. Commanded a Division, 1915–6. Author of La Grande Guerre sur le Front Occidental; Les Batailles d’Arras et de Champagne; and, under the pseudonym “Pierre Lebautcourt,” of La Défense Nationale, 1870–1.
Champagne, Battles in (in part).
B. H. L. H.Captain B. H. Liddell Hart, F.R. Hist. S.
Military Correspondent of The Daily Telegraph (London). Inventor of the Battle Drill and various tactical methods adopted by the British Army. Joint Author of the official manual Infantry Training and editor of Small Arms Training. Author of The Somme Offensive; Science of Infantry Tactics (transl. for Bulgarian Army, 1925); Paris, or the Future of War; etc.
Allenby, Viscount; Cambrai, Battle of; etc.
B. L.John Gilbert Bohun Lynch
Author and Caricaturist. Author of Max Beerbohm in Perspective; etc.
Caricature.
B. Ma.Bronislaw Malinowski, Ph.D., D.Sc.
Reader in Social Anthropology, London School of Economics, University of London. Author of The Problem of Meaning in Primitive Languages; etc.
Anthropology.
B. M. J.B. Melvill Jones, A.F.C.
Mond Professor of Aeronautical Engineering, Cambridge University. Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge.
Aerodynamics.
B. R. C.B. R. Coad.
In charge of Delta Laboratory, Bureau of Entomology, United States Department of Entomology.
Boll Weevil.
B. W. D.Brian Westerdale Downs, M.A.
Fellow and Lecturer in Mediaeval and Modern Languages and English, Christ’s College, Cambridge.
Cambridge.
B. Wi.Arthur Frederic Basil Williams, O.B.E.
Professor of History, Edinburgh University; formerly Professor of History, McGill University, Montreal. Author of Vol. IV. of The Times History of the South African War; Cecil Rhodes; etc.
Botha, Louis.
C. A. B. C.Charles Austin Bunworth Campion, O.B.E.
Formerly Manager of the Commonwealth Bank of Australia in London. Member of the Economic Committee of the League of Nations.
Australia: Banking and Finance.
C. A. D.Clyde Augustus Duniway, Ph.D., LL.D.
Professor of History in Carleton College. Formerly President of Colorado College. Author of Handbook of Graduate Courses; Freedom of the Press in Massachusetts.
Colorado.
C. A. M.Carlile Aylmer Macartney.
Passport Control Officer for Austria 1922–5. Author of The Social Revolution in Austria.
Austria-Hungary; Burgenland; etc.
C. Bre.Cloudesley Brereton, M.A., L-ès.-L.
Divisional Inspector (Modern Languages) to the London County Council. Corresponding Member of the National Educational Association (America). Author of The Organisation of Modern Language Teaching; Studies in Foreign Education; etc.
Classical Education (in part); Commercial Education (in part).
C. Ch.Charles Chree, Sc.D., LL.D., F.R.S.
Formerly Assistant Director of the Meteorological Office and Superintendent of the Observatory at Kew, London.
Atmospheric Electricity.
C. Ch.*Cecil Chisholm.
Chairman of Business Publications Ltd.; Editorial Director of The Advertiser’s Weekly; Editor of System. Author of Marketing and Merchandising.
Advertising (in part).
C. D. C.Lieutenant-Colonel C. D. Crozier, R.A. (ret.).
Director of Inspection of High Explosives, Ministry of Munitions, 1915–9.
Explosives, Military.
C. De B.Cecil Delisle Burns, M.A., Litt. D.
Lecturer in Logic and Philosophy, Birkbeck College, University of London. Author of Government and Industry; Industry and Civilisation; etc.
Civil Service.
C. Du.Charles St. L. Duff.
Barrister-at-law. On the staff of the Foreign Office, London. Author of “The Panama-Costa Rica Boundary Dispute” in The Fortnightly Review (Oct. 1921); etc.
Brazil (in part); Central American Union; Chile (in part).
C. D. W.William Cecil Dampier Whetham, M.A., F.R.S.
Chairman of the Home Office Committee on Factory Lighting. Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. Author of The Theory of Experimental Electricity; Back to the Land, a Medley; etc.
Agriculture: Electric Power.
C. E. C.Major-General Sir Charles Edward Callwell, K.C.B.
Director of Military Operations at the War Office, London, 1914–6. Author of Small Wars; The Dardanelles; etc.
Army: General; Balkan Wars; Dardanelles Campaign.
C. E. Ch.Charles Edward Chapman, A.M., Ph.D.
Associate Professor of History, University of California. Author of The Founding of Spanish California; A Californian in South America; A History of Spain; Catalogue of Materials in the Archivo General de Indias for the History of the Pacific Coast and the American Southwest; A History of California; History of the Cuban Republic.
Cuba.
C. E. F.Charles Ernest Fayle.
Author of Seaborne Trade; The New Patriotism; The Great Settlement; etc.
Convoy.
C. E. I.Charles Edward Inglis, O.B.E., M.I.C.E.
Professor of Mechanism and Applied Mechanics, University of Cambridge. Fellow of King’s College, Cambridge.
Bridges.
C. F. C.Charles Frederick Cross, F.C.S.
Analytical and Consulting Chemist. Member of the firm of Cross and Bevan. Joint-author (with E. J. Bevan) of Researches on Cellulose; Text-book of Paper-making.
Artificial Silk; Cellulose.
C. F. Re.Charles Fernand Rey.
Commander of the Star of Ethiopia. Formerly Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Labour, London. Author of Unconquered Abyssinia as it is To-day; etc.
Abyssinia.
C. G. B.*Brig.-Gen. Hon. Charles Granville Bruce, C.B., M.V.O.
Leader of the Mount Everest Expedition. Author of The Assault on Mount Everest; etc.
Everest.
C. G. D.*Claude Gordon Douglas, M.B., Ch.B., C.M.G., F.R.S.
Fellow and Tutor in Natural Science, St. John’s College, Oxford. Temp. Lieut.-Col., R.A.M.C., 1918. Author of papers on respiration and kindred physiological subjects in scientific journals.
Chemical Warfare (in part).
C. G. S.Charles Gabriel Seligman, M.D., F.R.C.P., F.R.S.
Professor of Ethnology, London School of Economics, University of London. Formerly President of the Royal Anthropological Institute. Author of The Melanesians of British New Guinea; The Veddas (jointly with B. Z. Seligman).
Archaeology: South and Central Africa; Anthropology, Applied.
C. H. B.C. H. Best.
Attached to National Medical Research Institute, London.
Diabetes.
C. H. J.Charles Hubbard Judd, Ph.D., LL.D.
Director of the School of Education and Chairman of the Department of Psychology, University of Chicago. Author of Psychology, General Introduction; Psychology of High School Subjects; etc. Editor of The Supplementary School Journal; The School Review; etc.
Co-education; Commercial Education: United States; Elementary Education: United States.
C. H. K. E.Wing-Commander Charles H. K. Edmonds, O.B.E., D.S.O.
Served through the European War. Cuxhaven Raid, Dec. 1914 (Despatches), Gallipoli 1915 (Despatches).
Air Warfare.
C. K. H.Charles Kenneth Hobson.
Author of The Export of Capital, etc.
Capital, Export of.
C. K. O.C. K. Ogden, M.A.
Editor of The Cambridge Magazine; The International Library of Psychology; The History of Civilisation. Author of The Meaning of Meaning (with I. A. Richards); The Foundations of Aesthetics; etc.
Aesthetics.
C. L. C.Charles Lyon Chandler.
Curator of South American History and Literature in the Harvard College Library. Manager of the Foreign Commercial Department of the Corn Exchange National Bank of Philadelphia.
Buenos Aires.
C. Ll. M.Conwy Lloyd Morgan, D.Sc., LL.D., F.R.S.
Emeritus Professor of Zoology and Geology in the University of Bristol. Formerly Professor of Zoology and Geology in University College, Bristol. Principal of the College, 1887–1909. Author of Introduction to Comparative Psychology; Habit and Instinct; Instinct and Experience; Emergent Evolution.
Evolution (in part).
C. L. T. B.C. L. T. Beeching.
Secretary, Institute of Certified Grocers, London.
Cocoa; Coffee.
C. M. E. M.Charles Marie Emmanuel Mangin, K.C.B.
General Commanding the French V., VI. and X. Armies, 1916–8, and the French forces in the Rhineland, 1918–9. Formerly member of the Supreme War Council and Inspector-General of Colonial Forces.
Champagne, Battles in (in part).
C. P. S.Clifford P. Smith.
Member of the Committee on Publication of the First Church of Christ, Scientist, Boston.
Christian Science; Mrs. Eddy.
C. Ri.C. Richardson.
Formerly Hunting and Turf editor of Land and Water and The Field (London). Part author of Racing at Home and Abroad.
Coaching.
C. Ro.Rev. Camille Roy, D.Ph., L-ès-L., F.R.S. (Can.).
Professor of French Literature and Rector of Laval University, Canada. Author of Essais sur la littérature canadienne, etc.
Canadian Literature: French.
C. Ro.*Carl Roos, Ph.D.
Chief Librarian of the Royal Library, Copenhagen.
Danish Literature.
C. R. W.Clinton Rogers Woodruff, LL.B.
Attorney-at-law. Hon. Secretary, National Municipal League. Vice-President, American Civic Association. President, Civil Service Commission of Philadelphia.
City Government (in part).
C. Sey.Charles Seymour, M.A., Ph.D., Litt.D.
Sterling Professor of History in Yale University. Technical Delegate at the Paris Peace Conference, 1919. Author of The Diplomatic Background of the War; Woodrow Wilson and the World War; etc.
Coolidge, Calvin.
C. T. B.Charles Thomas Brues, B.S., M.S.
Assistant Professor of Economic Entomology, Harvard University. Author of Insects and Human Welfare. Editor of Psyche (journal of entomology).
Entomology, Economic.
C. T. G.Charles Theodore Greve, A.B., LL.B.
Referee-in-bankruptcy, U.S. District Court, Southern District of Ohio. Secretary to the Trustees of the Sinking Fund of Cincinnati, Ohio. Author of The Centennial History of Cincinnati.
Cincinnati.
C. T. R.Charles Tate Regan, M.A., F.R.S.
Keeper of Zoology, Natural History Museum, London. Member of Freshwater Fish Committee, 1917–20. Author of British Freshwater Fishes; Animal Life and Human Progress; etc.
Colours of Animals; Distribution of Animals.
C. V. D.Carl van Doren, Ph.D.
Literary Editor of The Century Magazine, New York. Associate Professor in English, Columbia University, New York. Formerly Literary Editor of The Nation, New York. Author of The American Novel; The Roving Critic; Many Minds; Contemporary American Novelists; etc.
American Literature: Fiction.
C. W. C. O.Sir Charles William Chadwick Oman, K.B.E., F.B.A., M.P.
M.P. for Oxford University, Chichele Professor of Modern History, Oxford, and Fellow of New College. President, Royal Historical Society, London, 1917–21, and Royal Numismatic Society, London, 1919.
Coinage.
C. W. F.Major C. W. Ford, R.A.
Senior Instructor in Ammunition, Artillery College, Woolwich.
Ammunition.
C. W. J. O.Charles William James Orr, C.M.G.
Colonial Secretary, Gibraltar. Formerly Chief Secretary and Acting High Commissioner, Cyprus. Author of Cyprus under British Rule.
Cyprus.
D.The Right Hon. Lord Desborough (William Henry Grenfell), G.C.V.O.
Chairman of the Thames Conservancy Board. Past President, Oxford University Boat Club. President of the British Imperial Council of Commerce. Late President, London Chamber of Commerce.
Easter, Fixed.
D. A. MacG.D. A. MacGibbon, Ph.D.
Professor of Political Economy at the University of Alberta, Canada. Author of Railway Rates and the Canadian Railway Commission.
Alberta; British Columbia.
D. D.Dwight Filley Davis, LL.B.
United States Secretary of War.
Army: United States.
D. D. S.Dorothy D. Steel.
Winner of the Open Championship and Ladies Championship at Croquet, 1925.
Croquet.
D. M. S. W.David Meredith Seares Watson, M.Sc., F.R.S.
Jodrell Professor of Zoology and Comparative Anatomy, University College, University of London. Author of many papers on Vertebrate Palaeontology and connected subjects in Proc. Zool. Soc.; Journal of Anatomy; etc.
Evolution (in part).
D. R. P.D. R. Pye, M.A.
Lecturer in Mechancial Science and Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge.
Aero Engines.
D. S. Mi.Prince D. S. Mirsky.
Lecturer in Russian Literature, King’s College, London University. Author of Modern Russian Literature; Pushkin; Russian Literature, 1875–1925.
Chekhov, Anton P..
D. Sn.David Snedden.
Professor of Education, Columbia University, New York. Author of Vocational Education (1920); etc.
Continuation Schools (in part).
D. St.Daniel Starch, M.A., Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Business Psychology, Harvard University. Director of the Department of Research, American Association of Advertising Agencies. Author of Advertising: Its Principles, Practice and Technique.
Advertising (in part).
D. T.Dorothy Todd.
Editor of Vogue, London.
Costume.
D. Y. T.David Yancey Thomas, M.A., Ph.D.
Professor of History and Political Science in the University of Arkansas. Author of A History of Military Government in Newly Acquired Territory of the United States; One Hundred Years of the Monroe Doctrine; Arkansas in War and Reconstruction. Associate editor of The Southwestern Political Science Quarterly.
Arkansas.
E. B. A.Major-General Edward Bailey Ashmore, C.B., C.M.G.
General Officer Commanding Territorial Air Defence Brigades. Formerly G.O.C. Air Defences of London.
Air Raids.
E. B. O.E. B. Osborn.
Literary Editor of The Morning Post (London). Author of The New Elizabethans; etc.
Boxing.
E. Ca.*Emile Cammaerts.
Professor of French Literature at Queen’s College, London. Author of Belgian Poems; New Belgian Poems; The Treasure House of Belgium; Belgium (The Story of the Nations); etc.
Belgian Literature: French.
E. C. K.Edward Cameron Kirk, D.D.S., Sc.D., LL.D.
State Dean and Emeritus Professor of Dental Pathology and Therapeutics, Dental School, University of Pennsylvania. Editor of The Dental Cosmos.
Dentistry.
E. Co.Einar Cohn.
Department of Statistics, Copenhagen.
Denmark: Financial and Economic History.
E. E. A.*Edward E. Allen.
Director of Perkins School for the Blind, Watertown, Massachusetts. Lecturer on the Education of the Blind, Graduate School of Education, Harvard University.
Blind, Training of the (in part).
E. F. B. G.Ellinor F. B. Grogan (Lady Grogan).
Author of articles on Balkan subjects in The Nineteenth Century; New Europe; etc.
Bulgaria: Political History.
E. F. C.Edgar Frederick Carritt, M.A.
Fellow and Praelector in Philosophy, University College, Oxford. Author of The Theory of Beauty.
Ethics.
E. F. S.Lieut.-Col. Edward Fairbrother Strange, C.B.E.
Late Keeper of Woodwork, Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Author of Alphabets, A Handbook of Lettering; Japanese Illustration; The Colour Prints of Japan; Flowers and Plants for Designers and Schools; etc.
Decorative Art (in part).
E. He.*Ernst Hertzfeld.
Professor of Oriental Archaeology, University of Berlin. Author of Erster vorläufiger Bericht über die Ausgrabungen von Samarra.
Archaeology: Persia.
E. H. P.*E. H. Platt.
Secretary of the Royal Toxophilite Society, England.
Archery.
E. J. Di.Emile Joseph Dillon.
Foreign Correspondent of The Daily Telegraph (London). Author of Russian Characteristics; Maxim Gorky; From the Triple to the Quadruple Alliance; The Eclipse of Russia; etc.
Alfonso XIII., King of Spain; etc.
E. J. F.Edgar John Forsdyke, M.A., F.S.A.
Assistant Keeper of Greek and Roman Antiquities in the British Museum. Editor of The Journal of Hellenic Studies.
Archaeology: North Africa and Crete.
E. J. G.Edgar Johnson Goodspeed, Ph.D.
Professor of Biblical and Patristic Greek and Chairman of the New Testament Department, University of Chicago. Author of The Story of the New Testament; Things Seen and Heard.
Chicago, University of.
E. J. R.Sir Edward John Russell, D.Sc., F.R.S.
Director of the Rothamsted Experimental Station, Harpenden, Hertfordshire. Author of The Fertility of the Soil; Soil Conditions and Plant Growth; Farm Soil and Its Improvements; etc.
Agriculture: Scientific Developments (in part).
E. J. S.Edward James Salisbury, D.Sc., F.L.S.
Reader in Plant Ecology and Fellow of University College, University of London. Hon. Secretary, British Ecological Society. Author of An Introduction to the Study of Plants; etc.
Ecology.
E. K. R.Eric Keightley Rideal, D.Sc., Ph.D., F.I.C.
Owen Jones Lecturer in Physical Chemistry and Fellow of Trinity Hall, Cambridge. Author of Electrometallurgy; Catalysis in Theory and Practice (in part); Water Supplies; etc.
Catalysts; Conduction, Electric (in part).
E. L.Edward Laaman.
Chief Editor of Waba Maa (Estonian newspaper). Director of the Press Bureau at the Estonian Ministry for Foreign Affairs, 1920–4. Secretary to the Estonian Peace Delegation in Paris and London, 1918–20.
Estonia: Political History.
E. Le.Emil Lederer, Ph.D.
Professor in the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Heidelberg. Editor of Archiv für Sozialwissenschaft und Sozialpolitik.
Communism.
E. M. D.Sir Ernest MacLeod Dowson, K.B.E.
Surveyor-General of Egypt, 1909–19. Under-Secretary of State for Finance, Egypt, 1919–21. Financial Adviser to the Egyptian Government, 1920–3
Egypt: Financial and Economic.
E. M. E.Edward Mead Earle.
Assistant Professor of History, Barnard College, Columbia University, New York. Author of Turkey, The Great Powers, and the Baghdad Railway.
Baghdad Railway.
E. Mo.E. Moresco.
Professor of Colonial Politics at the School of Commerce, Rotterdam.
East Indies, Netherlands.
E. N. S.Colonel Ernest Norman Stockley, R.E., D.S.O.
Chief Engineer of the Western Command, England. Chief Engineer, XIX. Corps, 1918, and VI. Corps, 1919.
Bridging, Military.
Er. A.Erik Arup, Ph.D.
Professor of Danish History at the University of Copenhagen.
Denmark: Political History (in part).
E. R.-B.Sir Evelyn J. Ruggles-Brise, K.C.B.
Chairman, Prison Commission, England and Wales, 1895–1921. Late President, International Prison Commission. Author of The English Prison System; Prison Reform at Home and Abroad.
Borstal System.
E. Sc.Ernest Scott.
Professor of History in the University of Melbourne.
Australian Literature.
E. T. D’E.Sir Eustace Henry William Tennyson-D’Eyncourt, K.C.B., F.R.S.
Managing Director, Armstrong Whitworth and Co., Ltd. Director of Naval Construction at the Admiralty, 1912–24.
Aircraft Carrier; Dreadnought.
E. Va.Emile Vandervelde.
Minister for Foreign Affairs in the Belgian Government. Formerly Minister of Justice. Represented Belgium at the Paris Peace Conference, 1919. Chairman of the Socialist Group in the Belgian Parliament. Author of Three Aspects of the Russian Revolution; Le parti ouvrier belge; etc,
Belgium: Economic History.
E. V. P.Ernest Vincent Pannell.
Electrical Engineer. Technical adviser of the British Aluminium Company, New York. Author of High Tension Line Practice.
Aluminium; Electricity, Transmission of.
E. W. Be.Edward Wentworth Beatty, K.C., LL.D.
President of the Canadian Pacific Railway. Chancellor of McGill University, Montreal.
Canada: Communications.
E. Wi.E. Wilson, M.A.
Contributor of Acrostics and Crosswords to The News of the World (London).
Acrostics; Crosswords.
E. W. MacB.Ernest William MacBride, M.A., D.Sc., LL.D., F.R.S.
Professor of Zoology, Imperial College of Science, South Kensington, London. Formerly Strathcona Professor of Zoology at McGill University, Montreal. Author of A Text Book of Zoology; etc.
Cytology; Embryology; Evolution (in part).
E. W. P. N.Major E. W. Polson Newman.
Correspondent of The Daily Mail in Jerusalem. War Correspondent in Syria 1925–6.
Damascus.
F. A. Cl.Frederick Albert Cleveland, Ph.B., Ph.D., LL.D.
Formerly Professor of United States Citizenship, Maxwell Foundation, Boston University. Author of Organized Democracy; First Lessons in Finance; etc.
Boston.
F. A. L.Frederick Alexander Lindemann, Ph.D., F.R.S.
Professor of Experimental Philosophy, Oxford University.
Einstein, Albert.
F. A. M. W.Captain F. A. M. Webster.
Joint Editor of The Blue Magazine, London, and writer on Athletics.
Athletics.
F. Ba.Fernand Baudhuin.
Professor of Commerce in the University of Louvain.
Belgium: Finance.
F. C. B.*F. C. Bartlett, M.A.
University Reader in Experimental Psychology and Director of the Psychological Laboratory, Cambridge.
Culture Contact, Psychology of.
F. C. L.F. C. Lane.
Editor of Baseball.
Baseball.
F. D.F. Debenham, O.B.E.
Lecturer on Geography and Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.
Antarctica.
F. G. B.Frank George Barnes.
Superintendent, Homerton Residential School for the Deaf, London, N.E. Formerly Editor of The Teacher of the Deaf.
Deaf and Dumb: Great Britain.
F. H. B.*Frank Herbert Brown, C.I.E.
Member of the staff of The Times (London). London correspondent of The Times of India. Formerly Editor of The Indian Daily Telegraph.
Das, C. R.; etc.
F. Ho.Frederick Webb Hodge.
Ethnologist with Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation, New York. Ethnologist-in-charge, Bureau of American Ethnology, Smithsonian Institution, 1910–8. Founder and ex-President of American Anthropological Association. Editor of Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico; and sometime Editor of The American Anthropologist.
Archaeology: North America.
F. H. S.Major-General Sir Frederick Hugh Sykes, G.B.E., C.M.G.
M.P. for the Hallam division of Sheffield. Brigadier-General, General Staff, Supreme War Council, Versailles, 1917–8. Deputy Director, War Office, London, 1917. Chief of the Air Staff, 1918–9. Chief of British Air Section of the Peace Conference, Paris. Controller-General of Civil Aviation, 1919–22. Author of Aviation in Peace and War.
Air Power.
F. I.Florence Irwin.
Author of The Complete Auction Player; Master Auction; etc.
Bridge, Auction (in part).
F. J. C. W.Major F. J. C. Wyatt, O.B.E., M.C.
Organizer and Controller of Camouflage, British Expeditionary Force, France, 1916–8.
Camouflage (in part).
F. L. En.F. L. Engeldow.
On the staff of the Plant Breeding Institute, Cambridge, England.
Agriculture: Scientific Developments (in part).
F. L. M.Frank Lidgett McDougall, C.M.G.
Australian Representative on the Imperial Economic Committee, London. Author of Sheltered Markets; etc.
Australia: Production, Industry and Trade; British Empire: Trade and Commerce.
F. L. N.Sir Frederic Lewis Nathan, R.A., K.B.E.
Director of Alcohol Section, Fuel Research Board, London. Works Manager of the Ardeer Works of Nobel’s Explosives Co., 1909-14.
Alcohol (in part).
F. M. R.Flight-Lieutenant Frederick Michael Rope, R.A.F.
Member of Staff, Royal Airship Works, Cardington, Bedford, England.
Airship (in part).
F. O. B.Frederick Orpen Bower, F.R.S.
Emeritus Professor of Botany, University of Glasgow. Twice President of the Botanical section of the British Association and ex-President of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Author of The Origin of a Land Flora; Plant Life on Land; Plants and Man; etc.
Botany.
F. Pe.*Franklin G. R. S. Petersen.
Member of the editorial staff of The Times (London).
Australia: Political History; etc.
F. R. C.Frank Richardson Cana, F.R.G.S.
Editorial staff of The Times (London). Author of South Africa from the Great Trek to the Union; etc. Member of the editorial staff of the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition).
Africa (in part); Basutoland; Bechuanaland; Cameroons; Eritrea; etc.
F. R. M. de P.F. R. M. de Paula, O.B.E., F.C.A.
Reader in Accounting and Business Organisation at the London School of Economics, University of London. Author of The Principles of Auditing.
Bookkeeping.
F. W. A.Francis William Aston, Sc.D., F.R.S.
Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge; Nobel Prizeman for Chemistry. Author of Isotopes.
Atomic Energy.
F. W. E.-G.Frederick William Edridge-Green, C.B.E., M.D., F.R.C.S.
Special Examiner and Adviser to the Board of Trade, London, on Colour Vision and Eyesight. Author of The Physiology of Vision. Inventor of the Colour Perception Spectrometer and Colour Perception Lantern—used as the official test of the British Navy.
Colour Vision and Colour Blindness.
F. W. Ha.*F. W. Hack.
Of Neufeldt and Kuhnke.
Diving.
G. Ab.Grace Abbott, M.A.
Chief of the Children’s Bureau, U.S. Department of Labor. Author of The Immigrant and the Community.
Child Labour and Child Welfare (in part).
G. A. O.George Alexander Orrok.
Consulting Engineer. Formerly on staff of the New York Edison Company. Author of Power Engineering.
Boilers.
G. A. Y.Lieutenant-Colonel Gilbert A. Youngberg, D.S.O.
Corps of Engineers, U.S. District Engineer, Jacksonville, Florida. Formerly Assistant to the Chief of Engineers, U.S. Army.
Engineers, Military: United States.
G. Bo.George Boncescu.
Rumanian correspondent of The Times (London).
Bessarabia; Bratianu, Jon; Bukowina; Dobruja; etc.
G. C.Gustav Cassel.
Professor of Economics at the University of Stockholm. Author of The World’s Monetary Problems; Money and Foreign Exchange after 1914; The Theory of Social Economy; etc.
Exchanges, Foreign.
G. C. D.G. C. Dixon.
Literary Editor, The Daily Mail (London). Author of From Melbourne to Moscow.
Bruce, Stanley M.; etc.
G. E. B.George Earle Buckle, M.A., LL.D.
Editor of The Times (London), 1884-1912. Formerly Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. Author of Life of Disraeli (vols. III., IV., V. and VI). Editor of The Letters of Queen Victoria.
Balfour, Earl of; Bryce, Viscount; Carson, Lord; Curzon, Marquess; etc.
G. F. N. C.George Felix N. Clay, F.R.I.B.A.
Author of Modern School Buildings.
Education: Architecture.
G. F. St.George Frederic Still, M.A., M.D., F.R.C.P.
Professor of Diseases of Children, King’s College, University of London. Physician to the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street, London. Physician for Diseases of Children, King’s College Hospital. Author of Text Book on Diseases of Children; etc.
Children, Diseases of.
G. G. A.Major-General Sir George Grey Aston, K.C.B.
Lecturer on Military History, University College, University of London. Formerly Professor of Fortification at the Royal Naval College, Greenwich. Author of Sea, Land and Air Strategy; Memories of a Marine; etc.
British Empire: Defence.
G. Gl.George Glasgow.
Author and Publicist. Author of The Minoans; Ronald Burrows: a Memoir; etc.
Beneš, E.; etc.
G. H. R.George H. Ryden, M.A.
Associate Professor of History and Political Science, University of Delaware. Director of the American Red Cross in South Russia, 1919-20.
Delaware.
G. H. T.George Herbert Thring.
Solicitor. Secretary of the Incorporated Society of Authors, Playwrights and Composers, London.
Copyright.
G. K. A. B.Very Reverend George Kennedy Allen Bell, D.D.
Dean of Canterbury. Formerly resident chaplain to the Archbishop of Canterbury. Author of The Meaning of the Creed; etc.
Anglicanism; Davidson, Randall T..
G. L.*Gonzalez Lodge.
Professor of Latin and Greek at Teachers College, Columbia University, New York. Editor-in-chief of The Classical Weekly, 1907-13.
Classical Education: United States.
G. le G. N.G. le G. Norgate, B.A.
Contributor to The Dictionary of National Biography.
Chelmsford, Viscount; etc.
G. le Q. M.Major G. le Q. Martel, D.S.O., M.C.
Deputy Assistant Director of Fortification and Works, Ordnance Department, War Office, London. General Staff Officer, Tank Corps Headquarters, B.E.F., France, 1916-8. Inventor of the One-man Tank.
Armoured Car.
G. L. K.Geoffrey Langdon Keynes, M.A., M.D., F.R.C.S.
Hunterian Professor, Royal College of Surgeons, London. Author of Blood Transfusion; etc.
Blood Transfusion.
G. M. W.George Mackinnon Wrong, M.A., LL.D., F.R.S.(Can.).
Professor of History, University of Toronto. Author of The Fall of Canada; The Conquest of New France; etc.
Canada: Political History.
G. O. M.George O. May.
President of the American branch of the firm of Price, Waterhouse and Co., Accountants.
Cost Accounting.
G. S. Du.Rev. George Simpson Duncan, M.A., B.D.
Professor of Biblical Criticism in St. Mary’s College, University of St. Andrews.
Biblical Criticism.
G. T.*Major Edward Geoffrey Toye.
Conductor for Sir Thomas Beecham’s Opera Companies and other societies. Author of Esperance Morris Dance Book No. 2.
Dancing.
G. T. B.George Thomas Burrows.
Editor of The Live Stock Journal and agricultural correspondent of The Daily Telegraph (London).
Bowls.
G. W. G.G. W. Giles, F.R.H.S.
Secretary, Allotments Organisation and Small Holders Society Ltd., London.
Allotments.
G. W. K.*George Washington Kirchwey, LL.D.
Head of the Department of Criminology, New York School of Social Work. Formerly Warden of Sing Sing Prison. Author of Readings in the Law of Real Property; etc.
Criminology.
H.*Right Hon. Viscount Haldane (Richard Burdon Haldane), K.T., O.M., LL.D., F.R.S.
Lord High Chancellor of England, 1912–5 and 1924. Secretary of State for War, 1905–12. Chancellor of the University of Bristol. Gray Scholar and Ferguson Scholar in Philosophy of the four Scottish universities, 1876. Author of Education and Empire; The Philosophy of Humanism; etc. Joint author of Essays in Philosophical Criticism.
Education: General.
H. A. B.Brig.-Gen. Henry Arthur Bethell, C.M.G., R.A.
Author of Modern Guns and Gunnery; Modern Artillery in the Field.
Artillery.
H. A. H.Howard Archibald Hubbard, M.A.
Professor of History and Head of the Department of History and Political Science in the University of Arizona.
Arizona.
H. A. T.H. Avray Tipping, M.A., F.S.A.Chequers.
H. B. H.Brig.-Gen. Harold Brewer Hartley, M.C.
Fellow and Tutor of Balliol College, Oxford. Controller of the Chemical Warfare Department, Ministry of Munitions, London, 1918–9. Formerly Assistant Director of Gas Services, G.H.Q., France.
Chemical Warfare (in part).
H. Bi.*Henri Bidou.
Member of the staff of Le Journal des Débats (Paris). Chevalier of the Legion of Honour.
Alsace-Lorraine.
H. Br.*Henri Brenier.
Director-General of the Chamber of Commerce, Marseilles. General Secretary to the National Colonial Exhibition at Marseilles, 1922, and to the Colonial Organisation Congress, 1922.
Algeria.
H. C. Ha.Henry C. Harwood.
Literary Critic, The London Mercury; The Outlook (London). Author of Judgment Eve; etc.
Bennett, Arnold; Ellis, H. Havelock.
H. Co.Henry Cousens.
Late member of the Archaeological Survey of India. Author of Architectural Antiquities of Western Asia.
Archaeology: India.
H. C. W.Henry C. Watts, D.Sc., A.M. Inst.C.E.
Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society, England.
Airscrew.
H. C. Wo.Henry Charles Woods.
Special correspondent of The Times (London) in the Balkans, 1911, and of The Evening News (London) during the Balkan Wars, 1912–3. Military and Diplomatic Correspondent for The Evening News, 1914–5. Author of War and Diplomacy in the Balkans; etc.
Constantine, ex-King of the Hellenes.
H. D.*Harold Dore.
Political correspondent of The Manchester Guardian.
Daylight Saving.
H. E. A.Henry Edward Armstrong, Ph.D., LL.D., D.Sc., F.R.S.
Emeritus Professor of Chemistry at the City and Guilds College, South Kensington, London.
Chemistry.
H. E. B.Henry Eldridge Bourne, L.H.D.
Professor of History in Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio. Author of The Revolutionary Period in Europe; History of the United States; etc.
Cleveland.
H. E. Ba.Harry Everett Barnard, Ph.D.
Director of the American Institute of Baking. Formerly Food and Drug Inspection Chemist, U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Bread Making (in part).
H. Fi.Herman Finer, D.Sc.
Lecturer in Public Administration, London School of Economics. Author of Foreign Governments at Work; The Case Against Proportional Representation; etc.
Electoral Laws.
H. F. O.Henry Fairfield Osborn, D.Sc., LL.D., Ph.D.
Honorary Curator of the Department of Vertebrate Palaeontology of the American Museum of Natural History. Senior Geologist, United States Geological Survey. Research Professor of Zoology, Columbia University, New York. Author of Age of Mammals; Men of the Old Stone Age; Origin and Evolution of Life; etc.
Evolution (in part).
H. G. C.Harold G. Colman, D.Sc., Ph.D., F.I.C.
Analytical and Consulting Chemist.
Coal Tar Products.
H. G. J.Herman Gerlach James, M.A., Ph.D.
Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and Professor of Political Science in the University of Nebraska. Author of Principles of Prussian Administration; Applied City Government; A Handbook of Civic Improvements; Local Government in the United States; The Constitutional System of Brazil.
Chile (in part).
H. G. T.H. G. Thornton.
Head of the Bacteriology Department, Rothamsted Experimental Station, Harpenden, Hertfordshire.
Bacteriology (in part).
H. Gu.Hugh Gunn, M.A.
Director of Education and Member of the Legislative Council, Orange River Colony, 1902–10. Editor of The British Empire.
Beyers, C. F..
H. H. J.Sir Harry Hamilton Johnston, G.C.M.G., K.C.B., Sc.D., F.R.G.S.
Commissioner and Consul-General in British Central Africa, 1891. Consul-General in the Regency of Tunis 1897–9. Special Commissioner, Commander-in-Chief and Consul-General for the Uganda Protectorate, 1899–1901. Author of British Central Africa; The Uganda Protectorate; The Nile Quest; Liberia; etc.
Africa (in part).
H. Ho.Harry Houdini.
Professional Magician. Author of Handcuff Secrets; The Unmasking of Robert Houdin; A Magician Among the Spirits; etc.
Conjuring.
H. I. P.Herbert Ingram Priestley, M.A., Ph.D.
Professor of Mexican History and Librarian of the Bancroft Library, University of California. Author of The Mexican Nation; etc.
Costa Rica.
H. J. Br.H. J. Braunholtz, M.A.
Assistant Keeper of Ceramics and Ethnography, British Museum, London.
Archaeology: Oceania and Easter Island.
H. J. F.Herbert John Fleure, D.Sc.
Professor of Geography and Anthropology, University College of Wales, Aberystwyth. Hon. Secretary, Geographical Association; and Hon. Editor of The Geographical Teacher. Author of Human Geography in Western Europe; etc.
Exploration.
H. J. T.H. J. Temple.
Political Representative in England of the European Association of Ceylon.
Ceylon.
H. Le.*Harper Leech, M.A.
Financial writer with The Chicago Tribune. Formerly managing editor, Memphis Press, and editor, Denver Express.
Chicago.
H. L. M.Henry Louis Mencken.
Editor of The American Mercury. Contributing editor of The Nation (New York). Formerly editor (with George Jean Nathan) of The Smart Set. Author of In Defense of Women; The American Language; Prejudices; etc.
Americanism.
H. L. T.Henry Letheby Tidy, M.A., M.D., F.R.C.P.
Assistant Physician to St. Thomas’s Hospital, and Physician to the Great Northern Hospital, London. Hon. Secretary, Royal Society of Medicine. Formerly Demonstrator of Clinical Pathology to the London Hospital. Author of Synopsis of Medicine; etc.
Encephalitis Lethargica.
H. Lu.H. Lund.Denmark: Political History (in part).
H. M. H.*Henry Metcalf Hobart, B.S.
Consulting Engineer of the General Electric Company, Schenectady, N.Y. Author of Electric Motors; Continuous Current Dynamo Design; Design of Static Transformers; etc.
Dynamo-Electric Machines.
H. Mi.J. Hamish Miles.
Literary Critic of The New Statesman and The Outlook (London). Author (with R. Mortimer) of The Oxford Circus.
Beerbohm, Max; Doughty, C. M..
H. Ni.Hon. Harold Nicolson, C.M.G.
First Secretary, British Legation, Teheran. Served on British Delegation to the Peace Conference, 1919. Author of Paul Verlaine; etc.
Diplomacy.
H. P.Henri Pirenne.
Professor of Mediaeval History, University of Ghent. Member of the Royal Academy of Belgium and the Institute of France. Author of Histoire de Belgique; etc.
Albert I., King of the Belgians; Belgium (in part).
H. P. W.Henry Parker Willis, Ph.D.
Professor of Banking in Columbia University, New York. Formerly Director of Research, Federal Reserve Board. Editor-in-chief, The Journal of Commerce (New York). Author of American Banking; The Federal Reserve System; Federal Reserve Banking Practice; etc.
Banking: United States.
H. R. H.Harry Reginald Holland Hall, F.B.A., Litt. D., F.S.A.
Keeper of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities, British Museum, London. Author of Egypt and Western Asia in the Light of Recent Discoveries; Aegean Archaeology; etc.
Archaeology: Western Asia and Mesopotamia.
H. Ro.Sir Humphry Davy Rolleston, Bart., K.C.B., M.D., D.Sc., D.C.L.
Regius Professor of Physic, Cambridge University. Physician in Ordinary to His Majesty King George V. President of the Royal College of Physicians of London. Author of Diseases of the Liver; etc.
Diagnosis.
H. Sc.Harold Lorain Scott.
Associate Professor of History, Robert College, Constantinople.
Constantinople.
H. S. C.Henry Seidel Canby, Ph.D.
Professor of English, Yale University. Editor of The Saturday Review of Literature. Author of The Short Story; English Composition in Theory and Practice; Everyday Americans; etc.
American Literature (in part).
H. Si.Herbert Sidebotham.
Contributor to The Daily Chronicle; The Daily Graphic; The Sunday Times (London). For many years on the editorial staff of The Manchester Guardian and known as "Student of War" and "Student of Politics." Author of Pillars of the State; etc.
Churchill, Winston L..
H. Sp.*Herbert Joseph Spinden, A.M., Ph.D.
Curator of Mexican Archaeology and Ethnology, Peabody Museum, Harvard University. Author of Ancient Civilizations of Mexico and Central America; Civilization and the Wet Tropics; etc.
Archaeology: Mexico and Central America.
H. St. J. B. P.Harry St. John Bridger Philby, C.I.E.
Chief British Representative in Transjordan, 1921–4. Formerly Adviser to the Ministry of the Interior, Mesopotamia. Commanded the British Political Mission to Central Arabia, 1917–8. Author of The Heart of Arabia.
Arabia (in part).
H. T.*Brigadier-General Harry Taylor, D.S.M.
Chief of Engineers, United States War Department. Chief Engineer, American Expeditionary Force, in France 1917–8.
Colorado River.
H. Ti.*Herbert Tilley, B.S., F.R.C.S.
Surgeon, Ear, Nose and Throat Department, University College Hospital, London. Laryngologist to the Radium Institute. Ex-president of the Sections of Laryngology and Otology, Royal Society of Medicine. Author of Diseases of the Nose and Throat; etc.
Ear, Nose and Throat, Diseases of.
H. T. S.Hugh Tempest Sheringham.
Angling Editor of The Field (London). Author of An Angler’s Hours; Elements of Angling; Trout Fishing: Memories and Morals; etc.
Angling.
H. V. S. C.Lieutenant-Colonel Harold V.S. Charrington, M.C.
General Staff Officer, 2nd Grade, at the Staff College, Camberley, England.
Cavalry.
H. Wa.Herbert Ward, M.A., C.B.E.
Formerly Chief Inspector for the Training of Teachers, Board of Education, London.
Education, Experiments in: Great Britain.
H. W. Ba.H. W. Bartleet.
Writer on Motoring and Cycling topics.
Cycling.
H. W. C.Harvey Wiley Corbett, F.R.I.B.A.
Lecturer in Architecture, Columbia University. Post-President, Architectural League of New York; member Fine Arts Commission, State of New York. Member of the firm of Helmle & Corbett, New York. Architect of Bush Terminal Office Building (New York); Bush House (London); Springfield Municipal Group (Mass.); George Washington Masonic National Memorial (Alexandria, Va.); etc.
Architecture.
H. W. M.Henry William Mardon.
Formerly Lecturer in Geography and Education in the Tewfikieh and Dar el Ulum colleges, Cairo. Author of A Geography of Egypt and the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan; etc.
Aden (in part); Arabia.
H. W. V. T.Harold William Vazeille Temperley, M.A., Litt.D., O.B.E.
University Reader in Modern History and Fellow of Peterhouse, Cambridge. British Representative on the Albanian Frontiers Commission, 1921. Military Adviser at the Peace Conference, Paris, 1919. Editor of A History of the Peace Conference of Paris. Contributor to The Cambridge Modern History and The Cambridge History of Foreign Policy.
Ambassadors, Conference of; Eupen and Malmedy; etc.
I. A. E. E.Lieut.-Col. Ivo Arthur Exley Edwards, C.M.G.
Staff Officer, British Air Ministry, 1918–9. Sometime Deputy Director Air Transport Department of Civil Aviation, Air Ministry, London.
Aerodrome.
I. F.Irving Fisher, Ph.D.
Professor of Political Economy at Yale University. Author of The Nature of Capital and Income; The Purchasing Power of Money; The Rate of Interest; Stabilizing the Dollar; etc.
Dollar Stabilisation.
I. F. D. M.Ian F. D. Morrow.
Formerly Senior Moderator, Trinity College, Dublin.
Capitulations; Europe (in part).
I. W. SI. W. Shklovsky.
Formerly regular contributor to the Russian periodicals Russko Bogatsvo and Russkia Viedomosti. Author of Literary Characteristics; etc.
Andreyev, L. N..
J. A. A.J. A. Arkwright, M.D., F.R.C.P., F.R.S.
Bacteriologist at the Lister Institute, London.
Bacteriology (in part).
J. A. F.John Ambrose Fleming, M.A., D.Sc., F.R.S.
Formerly Professor of Electrical Engineering, University College, London. Fellow of University College. Inventor of the thermionic valve which made wireless telephony possible. Hughes Gold Medallist of the Royal Society. Author of The Wonders of Wireless Telegraphy; Fifty Years of Electricity; etc.
Electricity: Nature and Uses.
J. A. Fi.J. Alfred Fisher.
Member of the Grand Council of the Federation of British Industries.
Asbestos.
J. A. R. M.Sir John Arthur Ransome Marriott.
M.P. for Oxford City, 1917–22; M.P. for York since 1923. Chairman of the House of Commons Select Committee on Estimates, 1924 and 1925. Secretary to the Oxford University Extension Delegacy, 1895–1920. Author of English Political Institutions; The Eastern Question: a Study in European Diplomacy; England under the Tudors; etc.
Baldwin, Stanley; Conservative Party.
J. A. S.*John Alexander Smith, M.A.
Waynflete Professor of Moral and Metaphysical Philosophy, Oxford. Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford.
Croce, Benedetto.
J. A. T.John Arthur Thomson, M.A., LL.D.
Regius Professor of Natural History in the University of Aberdeen. Gifford Lecturer, St. Andrew’s, 1915. Terry Lecturer, Yale University, 1924. Author of The Study of Animal Life; Outlines of Zoology; Heredity; Darwinism and Human Life; What is Man?; Concerning Evolution. Joint Author (with Professor Patrick Geddes) of Evolution; Sex; Biology.
Biology.
J. B. C.John Brian Christopherson, M.D., F.R.C.P., F.R.C.S.
Physician for Tropical Diseases, Freemasons Hospital and Nursing Home, Chelsea, London. Consultant to the Tropical Diseases Clinic, Ministry of Pensions. Author of Antimonium Tartratum, a Specific Cure for Bilharziosis; etc.
Bilharziosis.
J. B. C. K.John Baker Cannington Kershaw, F.I.C., F.S.S.
Consulting Chemist and Chemical Engineer. Author of The Electric Furnace in Iron and Steel Production; Electrometallurgy; Electrothermal Methods of Iron and Steel Production.
Electrochemistry; Electrometallurgy.
J. B. F.John B. Firth.
Editorial Staff of The Daily Telegraph (London). Author of Augustus Caesar; Constantine The Great; etc.
Burnham, 1st Viscount; Burnham, 1st Baron; Chamberlain, Sir J. Austen.
J. Bro.John Brownlee, D.Sc., M.D., D.P.H.
Director of Statistics, National Institute for Medical Research, London.
Epidemiology (in part).
J. B. W.John B. Watson, Ph.D.
Editor of The Psychological Review. Late Professor of Psychology, Johns Hopkins University. Author of Behaviour—An Introduction to Comparative Psychology (1914); Psychology from the Standpoint of the Behaviourist (1919); Behaviourism (1925).
Behaviourism.
J. C. D.Jack Cecil Drummond, D.Sc., F.I.C.
Professor of Biochemistry, University College, University of London.
Biochemistry.
J. C. G. L.John Charles Grant Ledingham, C.M.G., M.B., F.R.C.P., D.Sc., F.R.S.
Professor of Bacteriology and Chief Bacteriologist, Lister Institute, University of London; formerly in charge of Bacteriological Department, King George Hospital, London. Consulting Bacteriologist in Mesopotamia, 1917. Joint-author of The Carrier Problem in Infectious Diseases.
Bacteriology (in part).
J. Ci.Jaroslav Cisar, Ph.D.
Secretary on Special Mission, Czechoslovakian Legation, London. Author of The Czecho-Slovak Republic.
Czechoslovakia (in part).
J. C. M.*Colonel J. C. Matheson.
Assistant Director of Fortification and Works at the War Office, London.
Coast Defence.
J. C. Sq.John Collings Squire, M.A.
Editor of The London Mercury. Chairman of the English Association. Chairman of the Architecture Club. Author of Tricks of the Trade; Essays on Poetry; Grub Street Nights; The Comic Muse; etc.
English Literature.
J. C. W. R.J. C. W. Reith.
Managing Director of The British Broadcasting Co. Ltd.
Broadcasting (in part).
J. Dv.Jan Dvorocek.
Foreign Minister of Czechoslovakia; Head of the Economic Section, Economic Committee of the League of Nations.
Czechoslovakia (in part).
J. E. C.Janet Elizabeth Courtney (Mrs. W. L. Courtney), O.B.E., J.P.
Author of Free Thinkers of the Nineteenth Century; Recollected in Tranquillity. Joint-author of Pillars of Empire. Joint-author of Index to the 11th edition of The Encyclopædia Britannica.
Alexandra, Queen; Chisholm, Hugh.
J. E. W.James Edward West, LL.M.
Executive Officer of the Boy Scouts of America, 1911; later, Chief Scout Executive.
Boy Scouts: United States.
J. F. C. F.Colonel John Frederic Charles Fuller, D.S.O.
Military Assistant to the Chief of the Imperial General Staff. Chief General Staff Officer, Tank Corps, 1917-8. Formerly Chief Instructor, Staff College, Camberley. Author of Tanks in the Great War; The Reformation of War; Sir John Moore’s System of Training; etc.
Arras, Battle of.
J. F. Da.John Ford Darling, C.B.E.
Director Midland Bank Ltd. Formerly General Manager, London Joint Stock Bank Ltd.
British Commonwealth: Finance.
J. G. H.Joseph G. Horner, A.M.I.Mech.E.
Author of Plating and Boiler Making; Practical Metal Turning, etc.
Automatic Machinery.
J. Gr.James Greig, R.B.A.
Art Critic of The Morning Post (London). Author of Sir H. Raeburn, His Life and Works; Life of Thomas Gainsborough; etc.
Art Sales.
J. Gr.*Josef Gruntzel, Ph.D.
Professor of Economics in the School of Economics, University of Vienna. Author of Handelspolitik; etc.
Commercial Treaties.
J. H. T.Right Hon. James Henry Thomas.
M.P. for Derby General Secretary of the National Union of Railwaymen, England. Formerly Secretary of State for the Colonies. Acting Chairman of Executive Council, British Empire Exhibition, 1924-5. Author of When Labour Rules.
Exhibition, British Empire.
J. H. van A.J. H. Van Alstyne.
President of the Otis Elevator Co., New York.
Elevators and Escalators.
J. J. C.Brig.-Gen. John J. Collyer, C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O. Late Chief of the General Staff, Union of South Africa.Cameroons, Operations in; East Africa, Operations in.
J. K. H.Joseph Kinmont Hart, Ph.D.
Lecturer in Education at the New School for Social Research, New York City. Formerly Associate Editor of The Survey. Formerly Professor of Education, Reed College, Portland, and Director of the Pennsylvania School for Social Service. Author of Community Organization; Discovery of Intelligence; etc.
Adult Education: United States.
J. Kn.Joseph Knox, D.Sc.
Lecturer in Chemistry in the University of Glasgow.
Cyanamides.
J. L. Co.John L. Cope.
Member of the staff of The Encyclopædia Britannica (13th edition).
British Legion.
J. L. G.James Louis Garvin, Litt.D.
Editor-in-chief of The Encyclopædia Britannica. Editor of The Observer (London). Formerly editor of The Pall Mall Gazette. Author of The Economic Foundations of Peace; etc.
Capitalism.
J. L. M.John Linton Myres, M.A., D.Sc., F.B.A., F.S.A., O.B.E.
Wykeham Professor of Ancient History and Fellow of New College, Oxford. Vice-President, Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, 1921. Author of The Dawn of History; etc.
Archaeology: General Survey.
J. Ma.*Sir James Marchant, K.B.E., F.R.S. (Edin.).
Director of the British National Council for the Promotion of Race Regeneration. Secretary of the National Birth Rate Commission and Editor of its Reports. Author of Birth Rate and Empire; etc.
Birth Control.
J. Mat.Julius Mattfeld.
Organist in Fordham Lutheran Church, New York; music librarian of the New York Public Library and Radio Broadcasting Station WEAF. Author of The Folk Music of the Western Hemisphere; etc. Associate American editor of Hull’s Dictionary of Modern Music and Musicians.
Choral Singing: United States (in part).
J. M. H. McL.John McLeod Hendrie McLeod, M.D., F.R.C.P.
Lecturer on Skin Diseases, London School of Tropical Medicine. Physician for Diseases of the Skin, Charing Cross Hospital. Late Editor of The British Journal of Dermatology. Author of Textbook on the Diseases of the Skin.
Burns and Scalds.
J. M. M.John Malcolm Mitchell, M.C., F.S.A. (Scot.).
Secretary, Carnegie United Kingdom Trust. Vice-President, Library Association. Author of The Public Library System of Great Britain and Ireland. Editor of The Rural Libraries Handbook (1922).
Carnegie Trusts.
J. M. M.*J. Merritt Matthews.
Head of the Department of Chemistry and Dyeing, Philadelphia Textile School, 1898-1907. Editor of The Colour Trade Journal, 1917-25.
Dyeing (in part).
J. M. R.*Colonel John Markham Rose, D.S.O.
Royal Marine Artillery. Commanded Heavy Artillery in South West Africa, 1914-5. Raised and commanded South African Heavy Artillery for service in France, 1915-6.
Bombs.
J. M. Ri.J. M. Ritchie, M.A.
Superintendent and Secretary, London Society for Teaching and Training the Blind.
Blind, Training of the (in part).
J. M. Sp.J. M. Spaight, O.B.E.
Member of British Delegation, Commission of Jurists on the Laws of War, The Hague, 1922-3. Author of Aircraft in War; Aircraft in Peace and the Law; Air Power and War Rights; etc.
Aerial Law (in part).
J. Mt.*Jean Martet.
Private Secretary to M. Clemenceau.
Clemenceau, Georges.
J. N. F.John Nicol Farquhar, Litt.D., D.D.
Professor of Comparative Religion, University of Manchester. Author of An Outline of the Religious Literature of India; etc.
Buddhism.
J. O. S.John Obed Smith.
Formerly Chief Officer, Canadian Government Emigration Department. Dominion Immigration Commissioner for Western Canada, 1901.
Canada: Immigration and Settlement.
J. P. A.James Pryer Allen.
Secretary, National Association of Amateur Billiard Players (U.S.A.).
Billiards (in part).
J. Re.Josef Redlich.
Lecturer in Public Law and Administration at the University of Vienna.
Austria: Political History.
J. R. Fi.Joseph R. Fisher.
Barrister-at-law. Member of Irish Boundary Commission, 1924-5. Formerly Editor and Managing Director of The Northern Whig (Belfast). Author of The Last Irish Parliament; Ulster in Irish History; etc.
Craig, Sir James.
J. R. R.Right Hon. Sir James Rennell Rodd, G.C.B., G.C.M.G., G.C.V.O.
Formerly British Ambassador to the Court of Italy. Member of Lord Milner’s Mission to Egypt, 1920. British Delegate to League of Nations, 1921 and 1923. Author of Social and Diplomatic Memoirs; etc.
Egypt: Political History.
J. Sh.John Shapley.
Morse Professor of the Literature of the Arts of Design, New York University. President of the College Art Association of America. Editor of The Art Bulletin. Associate Editor of The American Journal of Archaeology.
Art Treasures.
J. S. H.Julian Sorell Huxley, M.A.
Professor of Zoology at King’s College, London. Formerly Fellow of New College and Senior Demonstrator in Zoology, Oxford University. Author of The Individual in the Animal Kingdom; Essays of a Biologist; etc.
Evolution: Introduction.
J. S. M. W.John Sebastian Marlow Ward, M.A., F.S.S., F.R. Anthrop. S.
Head of the Intelligence Department of the Federation of British Industries. Author of Textile Fibres and Yarns of the British Empire; An Outline History of Freemasonry; etc.
Dyeing (in part).
J. Sn.Sir John F. C. Snell, G.B.E., M. Inst. C.F.
Chairman of H. M. Electricity Commission; Chairman, Water Power Resources Committee, Board of Trade, London. Formerly President of the Institution of Electrical Engineers. Chairman, Committee on Electroculture, Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, London. Author of Distribution of Electric Energy; Power House Design; etc.
Electric Power, Generation of.
J. St.Sir Josiah Charles Stamp, G.B.E., F.B.A., D.Sc.
President of the Executive, London, Midland and Scottish Railway. Vice-President, Joint Hon. Secretary and Editor, Royal Statistical Society, London. Member of the British Royal Commission on Income Tax, 1919; of the Committee on Taxation and National Debt, 1924. British Representative on the Reparation Commission’s Committee on German Currency and Finance, 1924. Author of Wealth and Income of the Chief Powers; Wealth and Taxable Capacity; etc.
Capital Levy.
J. St.*J. Stewart.
Author of Bread and Breadmaking.
Bread Making (in part).
J. St. L. S.John St. Loe Strachey.
Formerly Editor and Proprietor of The Spectator (London). Editor of The Cornhill Magazine (London), 1896–7. Author of Problems and Perils of Socialism; The Adventure of Living; Economics of the Hour; etc.
English Speaking Peoples, Relations of.
J. Th.Jocelyn Field Thorpe, D.Sc., F.I.C., F.C.S.
Professor of Organic Chemistry, Imperial College of Science and Technology. Member of Councils of the Royal Society and the Institute of Chemistry and of the Dyestuffs Development Committee of the Board of Trade. Author of The Synthetic Dyestuffs; Vat Colours; etc.
Colour.
J. T. H.John Theodore Hewitt, M.A., D.Sc., Ph.D., F.R.S.
Formerly Professor of Chemistry, East London College, University of London. Author of Synthetic Colouring Matters; etc.
Ammonia; Carbon, Syntheses of.
J. Wa.*J. Walch.
Lecturer on Drama, University of Leyden, Holland.
Dutch Literature; etc.
J. W. G.John Walter Gregory, D.Sc., F.R.S.
Professor of Geology in the University of Glasgow. Author of The Great Rift Valley; The Dead Heart of Australia; The Menace of Colour; etc.
Colour and Race, Problems of.
J. W. Go.James Winder Good.
Assistant Editor, The Irish Statesman. Irish Correspondent of The New Statesman and The Manchester Guardian. Author of Ulster and Ireland; Irish Unionism.
Dublin.
J. W. H.-M.James Wycliffe Headlam-Morley, C.B.E., M.A.
Historical Adviser to the Foreign Office, London. Late Fellow of King’s College, Cambridge; Assistant Director, Political Intelligence Department of the Foreign Office, 1918–20. Member of the Political Section of the British Delegation to the Peace Conference at Paris, 1919. Author of The History of Twelve Days; The Issue; The German Chancellor and the Outbreak of War; etc.
Europe (in part).
J. W. Hy.John William Hinchley, F.I.C., M.I. Chem.E.
Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College of Science and Technology, University of London. Author of Chemical Engineering; etc.
Chemical Engineering.
J. Wi.James Williamson, M.I.C.E.
Member of the firm of Sir Alexander Gibb and Partners.
Aqueducts; Dams.
J. W. O.Rev. John Wood Oman, D.D.
Principal and Professor of Systematic Theology, Westminster College, Cambridge. Formerly University Lecturer on the Philosophy of Religion. Author of The Church and the Divine Order; etc.
Christianity.
J. W. S. S.Colonel J. W. S. Sewell, C.M.G.
Assistant Director of Fortifications and Works, War Office, London.
Engineers, Military (in part).
K. K. D.Karl K. Darrow, Ph.D.
Member of Research Staff of the Bell Telephone Laboratories, New York City.
Conduction, Electric (in part).
K. M. A.Her Grace The Duchess of Atholl, D.B.E.
M.P. for Kinross and West Perthshire and Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Education. Formerly Vice-President of the Association of Education Authorities in Scotland.
Elementary Education: Great Britain.
K. S.*Karel Šedivý.
Czech Publicist. Pen name of Josef Chmelar. Editor of The Zahranicni Politika (Prague).
Czechoslovakia (in part).
K. S. L.Kenneth Scott Latourette, M.A., Ph.D., D.D.
Professor of Missions, Yale University. Formerly Professor of History, Denison University, Granville, Ohio. Author of Development of China; History of Early Relations Between the United States and China, 1784–1844; etc.
China; Chinese Eastern Railway.
L. C. A.Brig.-Gen. Lincoln Clark Andrews.
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, in charge of U.S. Customs Service, U.S. Coast Guard and the Prohibition Unit, charged with enforcing the Volstead Act. Deputy Provost Marshal General at G.H.Q., France, after the Armistice. Author of Fundamentals of Military Service; etc.
Bootlegging and Smuggling.
L. E. H.Leonard Erskine Hill, F.R.S.
Director of the Department of Applied Physiology, National Institute of Medical Research, Hampstead, London. Formerly Professor of Physiology, London Hospital. Author of Manual of Physiology; etc.
Aerotherapeutics.
L. F. B.Lewellys Franklin Barker, M.D., LL.D.
Emeritus Professor of Medicine in Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore. Author of Endocrinology and Metabolism; etc.
Endocrinology.
L. H. B.*L. H. Bakeland, Sc.D., Ch.D.
Hon. Professor of Chemical Engineering, Columbia University. Past President, American Chemical Society, American Institute of Chemical Engineers, American Electrochemical Society; Inventor of Bakelite and President of the General Bakelite Co.
Bakelite.
L. H. D. B.L. H. Dudley Buxton, M.A.
Lecturer on Physical Anthropology, University of Oxford. Author of Peoples of Asia.
Archaeology: China and Southeastern Asia.
L. Hs.Lewis Hodous, D.D.
Head of the Chinese Department of the Kennedy School of Missions, Hartford Seminary Foundation, Hartford, Conn. Formerly President of Foochow Theological Seminary.
Confucianism.
L. J. B.Lawrence Johnston Burpee, F.R.S.(Can.).
Secretary, Canadian Section, International Joint Commission. Formerly Librarian of the Ottawa Public Library. Author of Bibliography of Canadian Fiction; Canadian Humour; etc.
Canadian Literature: English.
L. J. S.Leonard James Spencer, Sc.D., F.R.S.
Assistant Keeper, Mineral Department, Natural History Museum, London. Editor of The Mineralogical Magazine. Author of The World’s Minerals.
Crystallography.
Ll. J.Lloyd Jackson.
Senior Fellow, Mellon Institute for Industrial Research, Pittsburgh.
Dry Cleaning.
L. Ma.Leonard Warburton Matters.
Editor of The Review of South America; formerly managing editor The Buenos Aires Herald.
Argentina (in part); Bolivia (in part); Colombia (in part).
L. M. E.Leon Moyer Estabrook.
Director of World Agricultural Census, International Institute of Agriculture, Rome. Formerly Chief of Bureau of Crop Estimates, Associate Chief of Bureau of Agricultural Economics, and Agricultural Commissioner, U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Agriculture, Census of.
L. M. S.Lucy Maynard Salmon, A.M., L.H.D.
Professor of History, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York. Author of The Newspaper and the Historian; The Newspaper and Authority; etc.
Censorship: United States.
L. Ro.Sir Leonard Rogers, C.I.E., M.D., F.R.S., F.R.C.P., F.R.C.S.
Member of Medical Board, India Office, London. Physician and Lecturer, London School of Tropical Medicine. Late Professor of Pathology, Medical College, Calcutta.
Cholera.
L. R. W.L. R. Wentholt.
Chief Engineer of the Water-staat of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
Coast Protection (in part).
L. S. C.Lee S. Crandall.
Curator, Department of Birds, New York Zoological Park. Member of collecting expeditions to British Guiana and Costa Rica. Author of Pets and How to Care for Them.
Birds, Migration of: United States.
L. U.Louis Untermeyer.
Author, and occasional lecturer at the universities of Yale, Princeton, etc. Author of Challenge; The New Adam; American Poetry since 1900; etc.
American Literature: Poetry.
L. V.*Luigi Villari.
Member of the Staff of the League of Nations, 1920–3. Subsequently attached to the Emigration Department of the Italian Foreign Office. Commendatore of the Crown of Italy. Author of Italian Life in Town and Country; The Awakening of Italy; etc.
D’Annunzio, Gabriele; etc.
L. van V.L. van Vleit.
Chess Correspondent of The Sunday Times (London).
Chess.
L. Wa.Lina Waterfield.
Italian Correspondent of The Observer (London). Author of The Story of Assisi; The Story of Rome; etc.
Duse, Eleanora.
M. A. C.Maurice Arthur Canney, M.A.
Professor of Semitic Languages and Literature, University of Manchester. Author of An Encyclopaedia of Religion; etc.
Arabic Literature.
M. B. B.Mabel B. Brooks.Alaska (in part).
M. Bo.*Moritz Julius Bonn.
Professor of Economics at the School of Commerce, Berlin. Author of Die englische Kolonisation in Irland; Amerika als Feind; etc.
Ebert, Friedrich; Erzberger, Matthias.
M. C. B.Miles C. Burkitt, M.A., F.S.A.
Lecturer for the Board of Archaeological and Anthropological Studies, Cambridge University. Author of Prehistory.
Archaeology: Continental Europe and Great Britain.
M. C. S.*Malcolm Charles Salaman.
Formerly dramatic and art critic of The Sunday Times (London). Author of Old English Colour-Prints; The Charm of the Etcher’s Art; Modern Masters of Etching; etc.
Etching.
M. C. W.*Milton C. Whitaker.
Vice-President of the Industrial Alcohol Co.; Professor of Chemical Engineering, Columbia University, 1911-7.
Alcohol (in part).
M. G.*Major Greenwood, F.R.C.P., M.R.C.S.
Medical Officer (Medical Statistics), Ministry of Health, London. Reader in Medical Statistics, University of London.
Epidemiology (in part).
M. H. Co.Montagu H. Cox.
Clerk of the London County Council.
City Government (in part).
M. H. S.*Marshall Howard Saville.
Professor of American Archaeology, Columbia University, and Member of the Staff of the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation. Formerly honorary curator of Mexican and Central American Archaeology, American Museum of Natural History, New York.
Archaeology: South America.
M. L.Matthew Luckiesh, M.S.
Director of Applied Science, Nela Research Laboratories, National Lamp Works of the General Electric Company. Author of The Language of Colour; Artificial Light; Ultra Violet Radiation.
Electric Lighting.
M. L. S.M. L. Shepherd.
Official Secretary in London of the Commonwealth of Australia.
Australia (in part).
M. M. W.Merton M. Wilner.
Editorial Writer on The Buffalo Express.
Buffalo.
M. R. T.Mrs. M. R. Tragett.
Winner, with Miss Hogarth, of the Badminton Ladies' Doubles Championship, 1925.
Badminton.
M. S. M.Colonel Mervyn Sorley Macdonell.
Formerly High Commissioner, League of Nations, at Danzig. Governor of the Western Desert Province, Egypt, 1920-3.
Danzig.
M. W.Maurice H. Woods.
Member of staff of The Daily Express (London).
Beaverbrook, Lord; Birkenhead, Earl of.
M. W. D.M. Willson Disher.
Dramatic critic. Author of Clowns and Pantomimes.
Circus.
N. A.Henrietta (Nettie) Adler, J.P.
Late member of the London County Council. Member of the London Advisory Council for Juvenile Employment.
Children’s Courts: European.
N. Bo.Niels Henrik Bohr.
Head of the Institute for Theoretical Physics at Copenhagen. Nobel Prizeman for Physics, 1922.
Atom.
N. G. G.Lieut.-Col. Nicholas George Gedye, O.B.E., B.Sc., M.Inst.C.E.
Consulting Engineer to the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries and the Development Commission. Formerly Chief Engineer, Tyne Improvement Commission; Acting Director, Civil Engineer-in-Chief’s department, Admiralty; responsible for reconstruction of Belgian ports after the War; Chief Civil Engineer for Docks, Harbours and Inland Waterways, Ministry of Transport.
Coast Protection (in part).
N. M. B.Nicholas Murray Butler, Ph.D., LL.D.
President of Columbia University. Author of True and False Democracy Education in the United States; Philosophy; The Faith of a Liberal; etc.
Columbia University; Education: United States (in part).
N. Mu.Neil Munro, LL.D.
Author and journalist. Author of The Lost Pibroch; Gilian, the Dreamer; The Shoes of Fortune; The Clyde; Ayrshire Idylls; etc.
Conrad, Joseph.
N. Mu.*Nadejda Stancioff, Lady Muir.
Daughter of the former Bulgarian Minister in London, M. Stancioff, and formerly member of Bulgarian Diplomatic Service.
Bulgarian Literature.
N. R. C.Norman Robert Campbell, Sc.D.
Physicist on the Research Staff of the General Electric Co., Watford, Hertfordshire. Author of Modern Electrical Theory; Principles of Electricity; etc.
Electric Radiation.
N. W.Norman Wilkinson, O.B.E., R.N.V.R.
Marine Painter and Etcher. Originator of Dazzle Painting (Naval Camouflage) as used by the Allied Powers in the World War. Author of The Dardanelles; Colour Sketches from Gallipoli.
Camouflage (in part).
O. C. C.Owen C. Coy, M.A., Ph.D.
Director of California State Historical Association. Associate Professor in University of Southern California. Author of Guide to the County Archives of California. Editor of Pictorial History of California.
California.
O. D.Ozora Stearns Davis, Ph.D., D.D., LL.D.
President of the Chicago Theological Seminary. Author of John Robinson, the Pilgrim Pastor; International Aspects of Christianity; etc.
Congregationalism (in part).
O. D. Y.Owen D. Young, LL.D., D.H.L.
Chairman of the Board, General Electric Co.; Chairman of the Board, Radio Corporation of America; Chairman, American Section, International Chamber of Commerce; Member of the Dawes Committee.
Dawes, Charles G..
O. G. S. C.O. G. S. Crawford, F.S.A.
Archaeology Officer of the British Ordnance Survey. Author of Man and His Past.
Archaeology: Air Survey.
O. H. L.O. H. Larsen.
Professor in General Agriculture and Agricultural Costings at the Royal Veterinary and Agricultural College, Copenhagen. Director of the Bureau of Agricultural Costings.
Denmark: Agriculture.
O. J.Owen Jones.
Continental Manager and formerly Textile Editor of The Manchester Guardian Commercial Supplement.
Cotton.
O. J. R. H.Osbert John Radcliffe Howarth, O.B.E., M.A.
Secretary of the British Association. Member of the Geographical Section, Naval Intelligence Department, London, 1915–9. Author of Commercial Geography of the World. Joint-editor of The Oxford Survey of the British Empire.
Birmingham; Bombay; Brussels; Delhi; etc.
O. L.Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge, D.Sc., F.R.S.
Principal, University of Birmingham, 1909–19. Professor of Physics, University College, Liverpool, 1881–1900. President of the Physical Society of London, 1899–1900. President of the British Association, 1913–4. Awarded the Albert Medal of the Royal Society of Arts, London, for pioneer work in Wireless Telegraphy, 1919. Author of The Ether of Space; Ether and Reality; Electrical Precipitation; etc.
Ether.
O. R.*Major Owen Rutter, F.R.G.S., F.R.A.I.
Formerly Magistrate and District Officer in the British North Borneo Civil Service. Author of British North Borneo; etc.
Borneo.
P. A.*Leslie Patrick Abercrombie, M.A., F.R.I.B.A.
Professor of Civic Design, University of Liverpool. Editor of The Town Planning Review.
City Planning.
P. B.Pierre Francis Bernus.
Foreign editor of the Journal des Débats. Paris correspondent of the Journal de Genève. Chevalier of the Legion of Honour.
Briand, Aristide.
P. B. I.Percy B. Ingham.
Director of the London School of Dalcroze Eurhythmics.
Eurhythmics.
P. C. Mo.P. C. Morgan.
Secretary, Brewers' Society, London.
Beer.
P. Di.Paul Dieudonné.
Editor on the staff of the International Institute of Agriculture, Rome.
Dairying.
P. E. L.P. Evans Lewin, M.B.E., F.R. Hist.S.
Librarian of the Royal Colonial Institute, London. Author of The Germans in Africa; A Geography of Africa.
Ashanti.
P. F. W.Pelham Francis Warner, M.B.E.
Barrister-at-law. Formerly Captain of the Middlesex Cricket Eleven. Captained M.C.C. Team in Australia and South Africa. Editor of The Cricketer; cricket correspondent of The Morning Post. Author of The Book of Cricket; Cricket Reminiscences; My Cricketing Life.
Cricket.
P. Hu.Percy A. Hurd.
M.P. for the Frome division, 1918–23. M.P. for the Devizes division since 1924. London editor of The Montreal Star. Author of Canada, Past, Present and Future; etc.
Canada: Industry and Trade.
P. J.*P. Jacobssen.
Member of Economic and Financial Section, League of Nations, Geneva.
Budget, National.
P. J. B.Philip J. Noel Baker, M.A.
Sir Ernest Cassel Professor of International Relations, London School of Economics; late Fellow of King’s College, Cambridge. Author of The Geneva Protocol.
Disarmament.
P. J. H.Sir Philip Joseph Hartog, C.I.E., M.A., B.SC., L-ès-L.
Late Vice-Chancellor of the University of Dacca, Bengal, and Academic Registrar of the University of London. Author of Examinations in their Bearing on National Efficiency.
Calcutta, University of; Examinations (in part)
P. L.Paul Lambotte.
Director of Fine Arts for Belgium. Government Commissioner for Fine Art Exhibitions. Author of two volumes in the Collection des artistes belges contemporains.
Claus, Emile.
P. Ln.Paul Léon.
Director of Fine Arts, Paris. Officer of the Legion of Honour.
Decorative Art (in part); Exhibition.
P. Q.Pierre Quesnay.
French representative on the Austrian Reconstruction Commission, 1919–20. Director of Economic Studies, Reparations Commission, Vienna, 1920–2. Assistant to the General Commissioner of the League of Nations in Austria, 1922–5.
Austria: Financial and; Economic History.
R. Bo.Ralph Bown.
Vice-president of the Institute of Radio Engineers. Member of the Department of Development and Research, American Telegraph and Telephone Company.
Broadcasting (in part).
R. B.-P.Lieut.-Gen. Sir Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell, Bart.
Chief Scout. Founder of the Boy Scout and Girl Guide Movements. Author of Scouting for Boys; Girl Guiding; Aids to Scouting; etc.
Boy Scouts.
R. C. B.Robert Clarkson Brooks, Ph.D.
Professor of Political Science, Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania. Author of Corruption in American Politics and Life; Political Parties and Electoral Problems; etc.
Baker, Newton Diehl; etc.
R. C. F.R. C. Farmer, O.B.E., D.Sc., Ph.D., F.I.C.
Late Chief Chemist, Explosives Department, Ministry of Munitions. Author of Manufacture and Uses of Explosives; Industrial and Power Alcohol; various scientific papers on explosives and general chemical subjects.
Explosives.
R. Cr.Dame Rachel Eleanor Crowdy, D.B.E.
Chief of Social Questions and Opium Traffic Section, Secretariat, League of Nations. Principal Commandant of V.A.D.'s in France and Belgium, 1914–9.
Child Labour and Child Welfare (in part).
R. de C. W.Robert de Courcy Ward, A.M.
Professor of Climatology, Harvard University. Author of Climate Considered Especially in Relation to Man.
Climate and Climatology.
R. D. O.Richard Dixon Oldham, F.R.S.
Formerly President of the Geological Society, London. Author of various papers on Geology and kindred subjects.
Earthquakes.
R. E.Ralph Enfield.
Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, London.
Agriculture: Economics; Co-operation, Agricultural.
R. F. A.Robert Franz Arnold, Ph.D.
Professor of German Literature in the University of Vienna.
Austrian Literature.
R. F. B.Richard F. Bach.
Associate in Industrial Arts, Metropolitan Museum of Art. Extension Secretary of The American Federation of Arts.
Decorative Art (in part).
R. G. H.R. G. Hawtrey.
Assistant Secretary to the Treasury, London. Author of Currency and Credit.
Currency.
R. G. P. H.Major R. G. P. Hunter, O.B.E.
Royal Engineers. Deputy Assistant Director of Fortification and Works, War Office, London.
Barracks.
R. Ha.Robert Haas.
Member of the Communications and Transport Section of the League of Nations, Geneva.
Aerial Law (in part).
R. H. Co.Robert Hamilton Coats.
Chief of the Bureau of Statistics, Canada. Author of The Labour Movement in Canada.
Canada: Area and Population.
R. H. Cr.Sir Reginald Henry Craddock, G.C.I.E., K.C.S.I.
Lieutenant-Governor of Burma, 1917–22. Member of the Royal Commission on the Civil Services of India, 1923–4.
Burma.
R. H. G.Ralph Henry Gabriel, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of History, Yale University. Author of The Evolution of Long Island.
Connecticut.
R. Hu.Robert Hutchison, M.D., F.R.C.P.
Physician to the London Hospital and to the Children’s Hospital, London. Author of Food and the Principles of Dietetics.
Alimentary System, Diseases of the.
Ri.The Right Hon. Lord Riddell.
Chairman, Periodical, Trade Press and Weekly Newspaper Proprietors' Association. Director, News of the World, Ltd.; George Newnes, Ltd.; C. Arthur Pearson, Ltd.; Newnes and Pearson Printing Co., Ltd.; Country Life Ltd.; Western Mail Ltd.; Represented British Press at Peace Conferences, 1919–22, and at Washington Conference on Disarmament, 1921. Author of Some Things that Matter; More Things that Matter; etc.
Censorship: Great Britain.
R. J. S.R. J. Stopford.
Intelligence Department of the British Overseas Bank, London.
Debts, Inter-Allied.
R. L. B.Right Hon. Sir Robert Laird Borden, G.C.M.G., K.C.
Prime Minister of Canada, 1911–20. Representative of Canada at the Imperial War Cabinet and at the Imperial War Conference, 1917 and 1918. Author of Canadian Constitutional Studies.
Canada: Constitution.
R. L. H.*Robert Lockhart Hobson.
Keeper of Department of Ceramics and Ethnography, British Museum. Author of Worcester Porcelain; Chinese Pottery and Porcelain; The Later Ceramic Wares of China.
Ceramics.
R. Ln.Robert Liefmann.
Professor of Economics and Finance, University of Freiburg, Germany. Author of Kartell und Trusts.
Cartel.
R. Lo.Robert Morss Lovett.
Member of the editorial board of The New Republic. Formerly Professor of English in the University of Chicago. Author of A History of English Literature (with W. V. Moody).
American Literature (in part).
R. Ly.Robert Lynd.
Literary Editor of The Daily News (London). Contributor to The New Statesman. Author of The Art of Letters; Books and Authors; etc.
Barrie, Sir J. M..
R. N. R. B.R. N. Rudmose Brown, D.Sc.
Lecturer in Geography, University of Sheffield. Member of the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition, 1902–4, and of the Scottish Arctic Expeditions, 1909, 1912 and 1914. Author of Spitzbergen.
Arctic Regions (in part).
R. Pe.Raymond Pearl, Ph.D., Sc.D., LL.D.
Director, Institute for Biological Research, and Professor of Biology, Medical School, Johns Hopkins University. Formerly Professor of Biometry and Vital Statistics, Johns Hopkins University. Author of Modes of Research in Genetics; The Biology of Death; Studies in Human Biology; The Biology of Population Growth; etc.
Death: Why and Wherefore.
R. Pi.Rudolf Pintner.
Professor of Education, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York. Author of Intelligence Testing.
Examinations (in part).
R. P. R.Robert Pugh Rowlands, O.B.E., M.S., F.R.C.S.
Joint-author of The Operations of Surgery, and contributor of articles on surgery to The British Medical Journal, etc.
Appendicitis.
R. R.*Sir Robert Robertson, K.B.E., D.Sc., LL.D., F.R.S.
Government Chemist, Government Laboratory, London. Director of Explosives Research, Research Department, Royal Arsenal, Woolwich.
Alcohol (in part).
R. Re.Sir Richard A. S. Redmayne, K.C.B., M.I.M.E., etc.
Consulting Mining Engineer. H.M. Chief Inspector of Mines, 1908–20. Late President of the Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, London, and member of the Fuel Research Board, Coal Conservation Commission and other bodies. Author of Coal, Its Occurrence, Value and Method.
Coal.
R. R. L.Russell R. Larmon.
Executive Assistant to the President, Dartmouth College, New Hampshire.
Dartmouth College.
R. Rn.R. Romein.
Member of Transit Section, League of Nations, Geneva.
Danube; Elbe.
R. T. G.Sir Richard Tetley Glazebrook, K.C.B., D.Sc., F.R.S.
Chairman of the Aeronautical Research Committee, London. Zaharoff Professor of Aviation and Director of the Department of Aeronautics at the Imperial College of Science and Technology, London, 1920–3. Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge.
Aeronautics.
R. Van O.Major R. Van Overstraeten, D.S.O.
Member of the Order of Leopold and the Legion of Honour. Aide-de-Camp to His Majesty the King of the Belgians. Graduate of the Belgian Staff College.
Antwerp, Siege of; Belgium, Invasion of.
R. V. L. H.R. V. L. Hartley.
Of the Bell Telephone Laboratories, New York.
Amplifier.
R. W. Re.Robert William Reid, M.D., F.R.C.S.
Emeritus Professor of Anatomy, University of Aberdeen. Member of the Council of Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland.
Anatomy.
R. W. S.-W.Robert William Seton-Watson, Litt. D.
Masaryk Professor of Central European History at King’s College, University of London. Founder and Joint-editor of The New Europe, 1916–20. Joint-editor of The Slavonic Review. Author of The Rise of Nationality in the Balkans; The New Slovakia; Sarajevo; etc.
Alexander I., King of Serbia; Dalmatia; etc.
S. A. M.S. A. Mussabini.
Author of A Billiard Player in the Making.
Billiards (in part).
S. B.Stephen Bonsal.
Newspaper correspondent. Author of The Real Condition of Cuba; The Fight for Santiago; The American Mediterranean; etc.
Caribbean, The.
S. G.Stephen Lucius Gwynn.
Irish Correspondent of The Observer (London). Member of the Irish Convention, 1917–8. Author of Irish Books and Irish People; The Irish Situation; The History of Ireland; etc.
Collins, Michael; Cosgrave, W. T..
S. H.*Sigfrid Hansson.
Member of the Swedish Parliament. Editor of Fackförenings rörelsen (Trades Union Movement). Has edited a series of works on the history of Trade-Unionism including Den Svenska fackförenings rörelsen (The Swedish Trades Union Movement).
Branting, Hjalmar.
S. L.*John Randolph Shane Leslie.
Editor of The Dublin Review. Author of Life of Cardinal Manning; Life of Sir Mark Sykes; The End of a Chapter; The Oppidan; etc.
Bourne, Francis (Cardinal); Cardinals, College of.
S. M.Shailer Mathews, A.M., D.D.
Dean of the Divinity School and Professor of History and Comparative Theology, University of Chicago. Author of The Spiritual Interpretation of History; etc.
Baptists (in part).
S. P. C.Samuel Paul Capen, A.M., Ph.D., LL.D.
Chancellor of the University of Buffalo. Vice-President in America of the British Society for Experiment and Research in Education. Formerly Editor of The Educational Record. Author of Resources and Standards of the Colleges of Arts and Science.
Education, Experiments in (in part).
St. J. E.St. John Greer Ervine.
Dramatist and Novelist. Dramatic Critic of The Observer (London). Author of The Magnanimous Lover; Mixed Marriage; Jane Clegg; and other plays.
Drama.
T. Ba.Sir Thomas Barclay.
Member of the Institute of International Law. Vice-President of the International Law Association. Author of International Law and Practice; Law and Usage of War; New Methods for Adjustment of International Disputes; etc.
Arbitration, International.
T. B. W.Thomas Barlow Wood, C.B.E., F.I.C., F.R.S.
Drapers' Professor of Agriculture, Cambridge University. Monro Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. Joint-editor of The Journal of Agricultural Science. Author of The Chemistry of Crop Production; Animal Nutrition; etc.
Agriculture: Scientific Developments (in part).
T. C. McC.Thomas Chalmers McCorvey, LL.D.
Professor of History and Political Science, University of Alabama. Author of The Government of the People of the State of Alabama.
Alabama.
T. E.Thomas Ewan, M.Sc., Ph.D., F.I.C.
Chief Chemist to the Cassel Cyanide Co. Ltd., Glasgow.
Cyanides.
T. E. G.T. E. Gregory, D.Sc.
Cassel Reader in Banking and Currency, London School of Economics. Author of Tariffs: a Study in Method, etc.
Banking: Banking; Canada.
T. E. L.Thomas East Lones, M.A., LL.D.
Formerly Senior Examiner in H.M. Patent Office, London. Author of Aristotle’s Researches in Natural Science; Zinc and Its Alloys.
Calculating Machines; Casein; Celluloid; etc.
T. E. P.Thomas Eric Peet, M.A.
Brunner Professor of Egyptology, University of Liverpool, Author of The Mayer Papyri; Egypt and the Old Testament; etc.
Akhenaten; Archaeology: Egypt.
T. Fr.Tenney Frank.
Professor of Latin, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, U.S.A. Author of Roman Imperialism; A History of Rome; etc.
Archaeology: Italy and the Western Mediterranean.
T. G. M.Thomas Garrigue Masaryk.
President of the Republic of Czechoslovakia. Principal organiser of the Czechoslovak movement for independence. Author of The Problem of Small Nations in the European Crisis; The New Europe; The World Revolution; etc.
Czechoslovakia: Political History (in part).
T. H. M.Thomas Hunt Morgan, M.S., Ph.D., LL.D.
Professor of Experimental Zoology, Columbia University, New York. Formerly Professor of Biology, Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania. Author of Evolution and Adaptation; Heredity and Sex; Mechanism of Mendelian Heredity; Critique of the Theory of Evolution; The Physical Bases of Heredity; etc.
Evolution (in part).
T. K.*Thédore Komisarjevsky.
Theatrical Producer. Formerly Producer and Art Director of the Moscow State and Imperial Theatre.
Acting.
T. S. A.Thomas Sewall Adams, Ph.D.
Professor of Political Economy in Yale University. Adviser on Taxation, U.S. Treasury Department. Author of Taxation in Maryland; etc.
Excess Profits Duty (in part).
T. W. A.*Sir Thomas Walker Arnold, C.I.E., Litt.D., F.B.A.
Professor of Arabic, University of London. Formerly Professor of Philosophy, Government College, Lahore. Educational Adviser to the Secretary of State for India, 1917-20. Author of The Preaching of Islam; The Caliphate; etc
Caliphate, The.
T. W. R.Theodore William Richards, Ph.D., LL.D., Chem.D., M.D.
Professor of Chemistry and Director of the Wolcott Gibbs Memorial Laboratory, Harvard University. Nobel Prize for Chemistry, 1914.
Atomic Weights.
V. B.*Václan Brdlik, Ph.D.
Professor at the Czech Polytechnic, Prague.
Czechoslovakia (in part).
V. B. C.Velico B. Christoff.
Member of the Bulgarian Society of Economics. Official of the National Bank of Bulgaria.
Bulgaria: Financial and Economic History.
V. C. R.Lieutenant-Colonel V. C. Richmond, O.B.E.
Head of the Design and Research Section, Royal Airship Works, Cardington, Bedford
Airship (in part).
V. P.*Vilém Pospíšil, Ph.D.
Governor of the Czechoslovakian National Bank.
Czechoslovakia (in part).
V. S.Vilhjalmur Stefansson, A.M., LL.D.
Commander of the Canadian Arctic Expedition, 1913-9; of the Arctic Expedition under the auspices of the American Museum of Natural History and the Geological Survey of Canada, 1908-12; and of several other expeditions to Arctic regions. Author of My Life with the Eskimo; The Friendly Arctic; The Northward Course of Empire; etc.
Arctic Regions: Climate and Resources
W. A. Ho.Hon. William Arthur Holman, K.C.
Premier of New South Wales, 1913–20. Treasurer of New South Wales, 1914–6.
Australia: Constitution
W. A. M.Rear-Admiral William Adger Moffett.
Chief of the U.S. Bureau of Aeronautics. Formerly Commandant, U.S. Naval Training Station, Great Lakes, Illinois, and Commandant, 9th, 10th and 11th Naval Districts.
Air Forces: United States; Air Ministry: United States
W. A. P.*W. A. Propert.
Author of The Russian Ballet in Western Europe.
Ballet.
W. A. R.William Alfred Reid, LL.M.
Foreign Trade Adviser of the Pan American Union. Lecturer on Latin American Commerce at the School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University; Lecturer on International Commerce at the School of Diplomacy, American University, Washington, D.C.
Amazon; Bahia; etc.
W. B.-A.W. Broughton-Alcock, M.D.
Director of the Central Laboratory, Ministry of Pensions, London.
Dysentery.
W. B. H.Walter B. Harris.
F.S.A., Moroccan Correspondent of The Times (London). Author of The Land of an African Sultan; Travels in Morocco, 1888-9; Morocco that Was; etc.
Abdel-Krim.
W. B. Se.Rev. William Boothby Selbie, M.A., D.D.
Principal of Mansfield College, Oxford. Editor of The British Congregationalist, 1899–1909. Chairman of the Congregational Union, 1914–5. President of the National Free Church Council, 1917. Author of The Life and Teaching of Jesus Christ; Nonconformity; etc.
Congregationalism (in part).
W. Cl.Sir William Henry Clark, K.C.S.I., C.M.G.
Comptroller-General of the Department of Overseas Trade, London. Member for Commerce and Industry of the Council of the Viceroy of India, 1910–6. Comptroller-General of the Commercial Intelligence Department of the Board of Trade, London, 1916–7.
Export Credits.
W. D. B.Willard Dell Bigelow.
Director of the Research Laboratory, National Canners’ Association. Formerly Chief of the Division of Foods, U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Canning: United States
W. E. B.*Captain William Edmund Barber.
Formerly Editor of The Political Review and The Economic Review (London) and Literary Editor of The Morning Post (London).
Censorship: General
W. E. B. DuB.William Edward Burchardt DuBois, Ph.D.
Director of Publications and Research of the National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People. Editor of The Crisis. Author of The Souls of Black Folk; The Negro; Dark Water; etc.
American Literature (in part).
W. E. C.William Ernest Castle, A.M., Ph.D., Sc.D., LL.D.
Professor of Zoology, Harvard University, and Research Associate of the Carnegie Institution of Washington. Author of Heredity in Relation to Evolution and Animal Breeding; Genetics and Eugenics.
Eugenics.
W. Go.*Sir William A. M. Goode, K.B.E.
Unofficial Adviser to the Hungarian Government. President of, and British Representative on, the Austrian Section of the Reparation Commission, Vienna, 1920–1. Author of Economic Conditions in Central Europe; etc.
Bethlen, Count.
W. Gr.*W. Graham.
Of the Board of Trade, London.
Dyeing (in part).
W. G. W.William Gillies Whittaker, D.Mus., F.R.C.O.
Reader in Music and Conductor of Choral and Orchestral Societies, Armstrong College, Newcastle-on-Tyne.
Choral Singing (in part).
W. Ha.*W. Hastings, M.B., B.Ch.
Former Deputy Director, Public Health Administration of Egypt.
Egypt: Public Health
W. H. C.W. II. Coates, LL.B.
Secretary of Nobel Industries, Ltd. (London).
Excess Profits Duty (in part).
W. H. D. R.William Henry Denham Rouse, Litt.D.
Headmaster, Perse Grammar School, Cambridge. Author of Latin on the Direct Method, and editor of numerous works on the Classics.
Classical Education (in part).
W. H. L.-W.W. H. Lowe-Watson, D.S.O., D.C.M.
Employment and Insurance Department, Ministry of Labour, London.
Apprenticeship.
W. H. Wi.W. H. Willson (London).
Member of staff of The Encyclopædia Britannica (13th edition).
Argentina (in part); Channel Islands.
W. K. McC.William Kidston McClure, C.B.E.
Formerly Correspondent of The Times (London) in Rome. War Correspondent of The Times on the Italian Front, 1915–7. Author of Italy’s Part in the War; Italy in North Africa; etc.
Asiago, Battle of; Cadorna, General; Caporetto, Battle of.
W. L. M.Lieut.-Col. W. Lockwood Marsh, A.F.R.Ae.S.
Head of Equipment Branch, Admiralty Airship Department, 1918. Formerly Editor of The Aeronautical Weekly; Secretary Royal Aeronautical Society, 1920; General Secretary and Sole Organiser of International Air Congress, 1922. Joint Author of The History of Aeronautics.
Air, War in the.
W. L. R.Rear-Admiral William Ledyard Rodgers.
Commander-in-Chief of the U.S. Asiatic Fleet, 1918–9.
Battleship.
Wm. A.Sir William James Ashley, Ph.D., M.A., M.Com.
Formerly Vice-Principal and Professor of Commerce in the University of Birmingham. Member of numerous British committees on economic questions. Author of Introduction to English Economic History and Theory; The Rise in Prices; The Economic Organisation of England; etc.
Economics.
W. M. H.Walter Morris Hart, Ph.D.
Dean of the University of California. Author of Ballad and Epic: A Study in the Development of the Narrative Art.
California, University of.
W. Mi.William Miller.
Correspondent of The Morning Post (London) in Athens and Rome. Author of The Latins in the Levant; The Ottoman Empire and Its Successors; A History of the Greek People (1821–1921); etc.
Adriatic Sea; Corfù; Dodecanese.
W. Pa.Woodford Patterson.
Secretary of Cornell University.
Cornell University.
W. P. Py.W. P. Pycraft.
Assistant Keeper of Zoology, Natural History Museum, London. Author of A History of Birds; Story of Bird Life; A Book of Birds; etc.
Birds, Migration of (in part).
W. R. I.Walter Renton Ingalls.
Consulting Mining and Metallurgical Engineer, New York City. Author of Metallurgy of Zinc and Cadmium.
Copper.
W. S. F.William Scott Farren, M.B.E., M.A.
Consultant in Aeroplane Design. Lecturer in the Engineering Department, Cambridge University, and at the Royal College of Science, London.
Aeroplane.
W. S. L.-B.Walter Sydney Lazarus-Barlow, M.D., F.R.C.P.
Member of Cancer Committee, Ministry of Health, London. Late Professor of Experimental Pathology and Director of Cancer Research Laboratories, Middlesex Hospital, London. Author of A Manual of General Pathology.
Cancer Research.
W. S. Ro.William Spence Robertson, Ph.D.
Professor of History in the University of Illinois. Author of Francisco de Miranda and the Revolutionising of Spanish America; Rise of the Spanish American Republics; etc.
Bolivia (in part); Colombia (in part); Ecuador.
W. S. S.W. Stanley Sykes, M.B., B.Ch., D.P.H.
Anaesthetist to the General Infirmary, Leeds, and to the Leeds Dental Hospital.
Acetylene; Ethyl Chloride.
W. St.William Stocking, M.A.
Historian and Statistician, Detroit Board of Commerce, 1903–21. Author of Under the Oaks; History of the Republican Party; etc.
Detroit.
W. T.Walter John Turrell, M.D., B.Ch.
Consulting Physician, Oxford County Asylum. Electro-Therapeutic Physician, Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford. Author of The Principles of Electro-Therapy.
Electrotherapy.
W. T. S.William T. Shanahan, M.D.
Medical Superintendent of Craig Colony, Sonyea, N. Y.
Epilepsy.
W. T. St.W. Tetley Stephenson.
Cassel Reader in Transport, London School of Economics, University of London.
British Empire: Communications.
W. T. W.Rev. William Thomas Whitley, LL.D.
Hon. Secretary and Editor, Baptist Historical Society. Recording Secretary, Baptist World Alliance. Author of History of British Baptists.
Baptists (in part).
W. v. B.Wilhelm von Blume, D. Juris.
Professor of Law, Tübingen University, Germany. Co-operated in the drafting of the constitution of Württemberg, 1919.
Baden; Bavaria.