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SOME CONTRIBUTORS TO NEW VOLUMES OE ‘ENCYCLOPÆDIA BPITANNICA'


author of ‘Anthropology,’ ‘Cannibalism,’ ‘De

Trinity College ; Roy. Socs. Upsala and Turin ; Library Association, and of Reports of 1st and

monology,’ ‘Giant,’ ‘Magic,’ etc., in Ninth President of Cambridge Philosophical Society, 2nd International Library Conference; author Edition of ‘Ency. Brit.’; ‘Anahuac, Mexico 1894; President of Section A, British Associa

of ‘ Libraries,’ etc., in Ninth Edition of ‘ Ency. and the Mexicans,’ ‘ Researches into the Early tion, 1896; author of ‘A Treatise on the Brit.,’ and of many papers in publications of History of Mankind,’ ‘ Primitive Culture,’ Motion of Vortex Rings,’ ‘Application of Library Association, some printed separately, ‘ Anthropology,’ ‘ The Natural History of Dynamics to Physics and Chemistry,’ ‘Recent articles in reviews, etc. (H. R- T.) Religion.’ ’ (E. B. T.)

Researches in Electricity and Magnetism,’

TELBIN, William; English scenic artist; ‘ Elements of the Mathematical Theory of • author of ‘Scenery,’ ‘Act Drops,’ etc., in Electricity and Magnetism,’ etp. (J. J- T.) ‘ Magazine of Art,’ etc. (W. Te.)

THORODDSEN, Dr Theodor H. ; Iceu

TEMPLE, Lieut.-Col. Sir Richard

landic expert and explorer ; author of ‘ History

UKITA, Goji: Chancellor of the Japanese Carnac, Bt., C.I.E.; Knight of Grace ; Chief of Icelandic Geography,’ etc. (Th. T.)

Legation, London. (G. U.) Commissioner, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, James Richard, M.A.;

UNWIN, William Cawthorne, F.R.S., and Superintendent, Penal Settlement at Port

THURSFIELD, formerly Fellow of Jesus Coll., Oxford ; author Blair; served Afghan Campaign, 1878-79; Burmah | M.I.C.E.; Hon. Life M.I.M.E.; Hon. Mem. Am. of ‘ Peel,’ ‘ The Navy and the Nation,’ conjointly War, 1887-89; Cantonment Magistrate, Panjab; Soc. M.E.; Hon. Assoc. R. I. Brit. Architects ; with Sir George 8. Clarke. (J. R- T-)

Assistant Commissioner, Burmah, and Canton

Professor of Civil and Mechanical Engineering, ment Magistrate, Mandalay, 1887; Deputy-

THURSTON, Prof. Robert Henry, A.M., Central Technical College, City and Guilds of Commissioner, 1888; to special duty with London Institute; instructor at Royal School C.E., LL.D.; Director of Sibley College, and Government of India, 1890; Official President, of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Cornell Rangoon Municipality, and Port-Commissioner, Kensington, 1868-72; Professor of Hydraulic University; sometime President Am. Society Rangoon, 1891; has been member of the Council Engineering, Royal Indian Engineering College, Mechanical Engineers; inventor of Testing R. Asiatic Soc.; Asiatic Soc., Beng. ; Cor. Cooper’s Hill, 1872-85; Professor of Engineer

Machines, etc.; author of ‘ Manual of the Steam Member American Philosophical Socy.; Smithing, Central Technical College of the Guilds of Boiler,’ ‘History of the Steam Engine,’ sonian Institute ; Numismatic Socy. of Phila

London, Kensington, since 1885; President, ‘ Materials of Engineering,’ etc. (R. H. T.) delphia ; edited ‘ Fallon’s Diet, of Hindustani

THWING, Charles Franklin, D.D., LL.D.; Section G, British Association, 1892; on the Proverbs,’ ‘Burnell’s Devil-Worship of the Council of Royal Society, 1894 ; on the Council President Western Reserve University and Tuluvas ’; has been editor and proprietor of Inst. Civil Engineers, 1900; on the Senate Adalbert College; author of ‘ American Colleges,’ the ‘ Indian Antiquary,’ since 1884; founded London University, 1900; author of ‘ Hy

‘The Reading of Books,’ ‘Within College and edited the ‘Panjab (Indian) Notes and draulics,’ etc., in Ninth Edition of‘Ency. Brit.,’ Walls,’ ‘American College in American Life,’ Queries,’ 1883-87. (R- C. T.)

‘Wrought Iron Bridges and Roofs,’ ‘Machine etc. (C. F. T.) Design,’ ‘The Testing of Materials of Con

THAYER, William Roscoe, A.M.; editor

TIEDEMANN, H. ; Anglo-Dutch journalist; struction,’ ‘The Development and Transmission of ‘ The Harvard Graduates’ Magazine ’; author ex-President of the Foreign Press Associa

of Power from Central Stations,’ etc. (W. C. U.) of ‘The Dawn of Italian Independence,’ ‘ Poems

tion. (H. Ti.) New and Old,’ ‘ Throne Makers,’ etc. (W. R. T.) (J.), Spencer Brydges, C.M.G. ;

THEOBALD, F. V., M.A. ; Foreign Member

TODD Secretary Dept, of Agent-General for Cape ot Y of Association of Economic Entomologists, Good Hope in London; Executive ComU.S. ; Zoologist to the South-Eastern Agri

missioner, Paris, for Universal Exhibition, 1878; VAN DYKE, Prof. Henry, D.D., LL.D. ; cultural College; Lecturer in Economic Ento

appointed by H.R.H. Prince of Wales a Professor of English Literature, Princeton mology to the Horticultural College, Swanley ; member of the International Jury; author of University; author of ‘ The Poetry of Tenny

author of ‘ A Text - book of Agricultural Zoo‘ The Resident Magistrate at the Cape of Good son,’ ‘Little Rivers,’ ‘The Gospel for an Age logy,’ ‘The Parasitic Diseases of Poultry,’ Hope,’ ‘ Handy Guide to Laws and Regulations of Doubt,’ ‘The Toiling of Felix, and other ‘ British Flies,’ ‘ Insect Life,’ etc. (F. V. T.) at the Cape of Good Hope.’ (S. B. T.) Poems,’ etc. (H. van D.)

THOMPSON. Sir Edward Maunde,K.C.B.,

TREBLE, Rev. Edmund John, A.K.C.L. ;

VAN DYKE, John Charles, L.H.D.; D.C.L., LL.D., V.P.S.A. ; corresponding mem

Eng. Chap., Wiesbaden; author of ‘Plain author of ‘History of Painting,’ ‘Old Dutch ber of the Institute of France and of the Royal Teaching about the Church of England,’ and Flemish Masters,’ etc. (J. O. Van D.)

Prussian Academy of Sciences; Director and etc. (E. J. T.) Principal Librarian, Brit. Museum; Assis.

VASCONCELLOS, Captain Ernesto de; Brit. Mus., 1861; Keeper of the MSS. and

TRENT, William Peterfield, A.M., LL.D.; Secretary of the Committee of Colonial Carto

Egerton Librarian, 1878; Sandars Reader in Prof, of English, Columbia University, New graphy, Department of Marine and Fisheries, Bibliography, Cambridge, 1895-96; editor of York; formerly editor of the ‘Sewanee RePortugal; Secretary of the Lisbon Geographical ‘ Chronicon Angliae’; author of ‘Miniature,’ view’; author of ‘English Culture in Virginia,’ Society; author of ‘As Colonias Portuguesas,’ ‘Paleography,’ etc., in Ninth Edition of ‘Southern Statesmen of the Old1 Regime,’ etc. (E. de V.)

‘ Ency. Brit.,’ ‘ Letters of Humphrey Prideaux,’ ‘ Life of William Gilmore Simms,’ Robert E.

VAUGHAN, H.E. Herbert, Cardinal, ‘Correspondence of the Family of Hatton,’ Lee,’ etc. (W. P. T.)

D.D., Priest of the Title of SS. Andrew and ‘Chronicon Adae de Usk, 1377- 1404,’ Hon. Bartlett; late U.S. Minister to Gregory on the Coelian Hill; Archbishop of ‘ Diary of Richard Cocks in Japan, 1615-22,’

TRIPP, Austria ; Chief-Justice of the Supreme Court of Westminster; Bishop of Salford, 1872-92; author ‘Chronicon Galfridi le Baker de Swynebroke, Dakota Territory, 1885-89. (B. T.)

of a large number of pamphlets and letters con1303-1356,’ ‘Adae MurimuthContinuatio Chronicerning educational, social, and religious quescorum, 1303-1347,’ ‘ Robertas de Avesbury de

TROTTER, Lieut.-Colonel Henry, C.B. ; tions, etc. (H. E. V.) gestis mirabilibus Regis Edwardi Tertii ’: jointBritish Delegate on the European Commission editor of publications of the Palseographical of the Danube, and H.B.M. Consul-General

VERDINOIS, Frederigo; Italian man of Society, and of the Facsimile of the Laurentian for Roumania

served 1863-75 on great Trigonoletters

translated ‘Cantico di Natale’ and ‘La Sophocles, ‘ Handbook of Greek and Latin metrical Survey of India ; accompanied mission Piccola Dorrit’ from Dickens, Shakespeare’s Palaeography.’ (E. M. T.)

to Yarkand and Kashgar, 1873-74; special service ‘Midsummer Night’s Dream,’ etc. (F. V.) in China, 1876; additional military attach^ at

VERNON-HARCOURT, Leveson

THOMPSON, Sir Henry, Bt., F.R.C.S., Constantinople during Turko-Russian War, M.B., London; Surgeon Extraordinary to King Francis, M.A., M.I.C.E. ; Professor of Civil 1877-78; Consul for Kurdistan, 1878-82; military of the Belgians; Com. Order of Leopold; Engineering at Univ. Coll. London ; proceeded attache, Constantinople, 1882-89; Consul

Consulting Surgeon to University Coll. Hospital, to India, 1896, to inspect the river Hugli, report

General in Syria, 1890-94; has acted as H.M. London, and emeritus Professor of Clinical ing to Calcutta Port Commissioners; British Charge d’Affaires at Bucharest; author of Surgery; surgeon to University Coll. Hospital, Member of Jury for Civil Engineering, Paris various papers contributed to the Royal Geog. 1863; Professor of Pathology and Surgery, Exhibition, 1900; author of ‘ River Engineering,’ Soc. (H. Tr.)

Royal College of Surgeons, 1884; President of ‘Water Supply,’ in Ninth Edition ‘Ency. the Cremation Society of England; author of

TROUP, Charles Edward, M.A., C.B. ; Brit.,’ ‘Rivers and Canals,’ ‘Harbours and ‘ Practical Lithotrity and Lithotomy,’ ‘ Crema

Principal Clerk in the Home Office since 1896 ; Docks,’ ‘Achievements in Engineering,’ ‘Civil tion, or Treatment of the Body after Death,’ Engineering as applied in Construction,’ etc. chairman of Committee on Identification of ‘ Modern Cremation,’ ‘ Charley Kingston’s Aunt,’ (L. F. V.-H.) Habitual Criminals; editorof'Judicial Statistics ‘All But,’‘On Food and Feeding,’ ‘Diet in of England and Wales ’; author of ‘ The Future Max, M.D., Ph.D.; Professor of Relation to Age and Activity,’ etc. etc. (H. Th.) of Free Trade.’ (C. E. T.)

VERWORN, Physiology, Jena, author of ‘Allgemeine Phy

THOMSON, Basil P.} Governor of Cardiff

TUKE, Sir John Batty, M.D., D.Sc., siologie,’ ‘ Psycho - physiologische Protisten

Prison; late of the Colonial Service; acted as Studien,’ etc. (M. V.) F.R.C.P.Ed., F.R.S.Ed., M.P.; Medical SuperPrime Minister of Tonga, etc. ; author of intendent, Saughton Hall Asylum, Edinburgh ;

VETCH, Col. Robert Hamilton, R.E., ‘Diversions of a Prime Minister,’ ‘South Sea Member of General Medical Council of RegistraYarns,’ etc. (B. P. T.) C. B.; employed on defences of Bermuda, Bristol tion and Education ; Medical Superintendent Channel, Plymouth Harbour, and Malta, 1861

THOMSON, David Croal; editor of ‘The of Fife and Kinross Asylum, 1865-73 ; author of 1876; Secretary of R.E. Institute, Chatham, Art Journal ’; author of ‘ The Life and Work ‘ Aphasia,’ ‘ Hippocrates,’ ‘ Hysteria,’ ‘ Insanity,’ 1877-1883 ; commanded R.E. Submarine Mining of Thomas Bewick,’ ‘ The Life and Work of in Ninth Edition of ‘Ency. Brit.,’ ‘Morrison Batt., 1884; Assistant Inspector-General of H. K. Browne (“ Phiz”),’ ‘The Barbizon School Lectures,’ ‘ Insanity of Over-exertion of the Fortifications at War Office, 1884-89; Deputy of Painters,’ ‘Corot,’ ‘Luke Fildes, R.A.,’ ‘The Brain.’ (J. B. T.) Inspector - General of Fortifications and Sec

Tate Gallery,’ ‘Fifty Years of Art,’ ‘The Paris

TURNER, Cuthbert Hamilton, M.A.; retary of the Defence Committee, and of the Exhibition, 1900.’ (D. O. T.) Joint Naval and Military Committee on Defence, Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford; co-editor of

THOMSON, Prof. Elihu; Electrician for War Office, 1889-94; Chief Engineer in Ireland the ‘Journal of Theological Studies.’ (C. H. T. j the General Electric Company; inventor of and Colonel on Staff, 1894-98 ; author of ‘ Gor

electric welding and other important electrical

TURNER, Frederick J., Ph.D.; Professor of

don’s Campaign in China,’ ‘ Life of Lieut.-Gen. American History, University of Wisconsin; appliances. (E. T.) Sir Gerald Graham ’; edited ‘ The Professional author of ‘Wisconsin,’ in Ninth Edition of Papers of the Corps of R.E.’; also the ‘R.E.

THOMSON, John Arthur, M.A.; formerly ‘Ency. Brit.’ (F. J. T.) Journal,’ 1877-84. (R. H. V.) Lecturer on Zoology and Biology, School of Medicine, Edinburgh; . Regius Professor of

TURNER, Herbert Hall, D.Sc., F.R.S. ;

VILLARS, Paul; Knight of the Legion of Savilian Professor of Astronomy, Oxford; Natural History, Aberdeen University; part

Honour; and London Correspondent of ‘ Le Fellow of New College, Oxford; member of author of ‘Evolution of Sex’; author of ‘The Journal des Debats,’ ‘ Le Figaro,’ etc. ; author Senate of Cambridge University; formerly Study of Animal Life,’ ‘ Outlines of Zoology,’ of ‘ Sketches of England,’ ‘ Scotland and Fellow of Trin. Coll. Camb., and chief assistant ‘ The Natural History of the Year,’ ‘ The Science Ireland,’ etc. (P- VL) Royal Observatory, Greenwich; author of of Life,’ etc. (J. A. T.) VINELLI, Dr Marcello; editor of ‘La ‘ Modern Astronomy.’ (H. H. T.) THOMSON, Joseph John, D.Sc., LL.D. Unione Sarda,’ Cagliari, Sardinia. (M. Vi.) Glasgow and Princeton, Ph.D. Cracow, F.R.S. ;

TYLOR, Edward Burnett, LL.D., D.C.L., Cavendish Professor of Experimental Physics, F.R.S.; Professor of Anthropology, Oxford;

VINES, Sydney Howard, D.Sc. London, M.A., D.Sc. Camb., F.R.S.; President of the Keeper of the University Museum since 1883; Cambridge ; Fellow of Trinity College; Lecturer