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SOME CONTRIBUTORS TO NEW VOLUMES -OF / ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA

Problem: A Study in Statistics,’ ‘ Social Sta- , 1901 ; author of ‘ Notes to Ordnance Survey of Jerusalem,’ ‘ Notes to Ordnance Survey of tistics of the United States,’ etc. (W. F. W.) j Sinai ’ (part), ‘ Picturesque Palestine ’ (JeruWILLEY, A., D.Sc. (A. W*.) j salem vol.), ‘ From Korti to Khartum,’ ‘ Life of Lord Clive,’ Murray’s Handbooks to ‘ ConstantiWILLIAMS, Aneuriri; author of ‘ Relation nople ’ and ‘ Asia Minor.’ (C. W. W.) of Co-operative Movements to National and International Commerce,’etc. (A. Wi*.) WILSON, W. J.: of the Canadian Geological Survey. (W. J. W.) WILLIAMS, E. H., M.D.; formerly Associate Professor of Pathology, State University of WINTER, Miss E. G.; contributor to ‘The Iowa ; and Assistant Physician at the Hospital Times’ Gazetteer. (E. G. W.) for the Insane, Matteawan, N.Y., and at the Manhattan State Hospital, N.Y. (E. H. W.) WOLCOTT, Hon. Roger, the late ; Governor of Massachusetts, 1897-99. (R. Wo.) WILLIAMS, Sir E. Leader; consulting engineer Manchester Ship Canal; engaged as WOLF, Lucien: sub-editor and leader-writer, ‘Jewish World,’ 1874-93; staff of ‘Daily engineer since 1846 on the works of the Great Graphic ’; London correspondent, ‘ Le Journal,’ Northern Railway, Shoreham and Dover Har- ! Paris ; Fellow of Inst, of Journalists; first Prebours, River Weaver and Bridgwater Canal Navigations ; chief engineer of the Manchester j sident and now Vice-President of Jewish Historical Society of England; author of ‘ Sir Moses' Ship Canal during its construction; Member of I Montefiore’; joint-editor with Joseph Jacobs Council of Institution of Civil Engineers; author of ‘Bibliotheca Anglo-Judaica’; ‘MenassehB.of papers printed in ‘ Proceedings of Institution Israel’s Mission to Oliver Cromwell’; many of Civil Engineers.’ (E. L. W.) ' essays on foreign and colonial politics in ‘ FortWILLIAMS, Henry Smith, M.D., B.Sc. ; nightly Review,’ ‘Nineteenth Century,’ and former lecturer in the Hartford School of Socioother magazines. (L. W.) logy, U.S.A.; editor of forthcoming ‘ History of the World ’ in 25 volumes ; author of ‘ Thfe WOLFF, Rt. Hon. Sir Henry DrumStory of Nineteenth Century Science,’ ‘The mond, G.C.B., G.C.M.G.; AmbassadorHistory of the Art of Writing,’ ‘ The Lesson of I Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary at Madrid, Heredity,’ etc. (H. S. W*.) 1892-1900; author of a ‘Life of Napoleon at Elba ’; ‘ Memnon Letters on the Suez Canal,’ WILLIAMS, R. Vaughan, B.A.; Mus. ‘ Some Notes of the Past.’ (H. D. W.) Doc., Trinity College, Cambridge. (R. V. W.) WILLIAMS, Talcottj editor of the ‘Phila- WOOD, General Sir Evelyn, G.C.B., G.C.M.G., V.C.; commanding 2nd Army Corps; delphia Press.’ (T. W*.) entered Navy, 1852; served in Crimea with WILLSON, Heckles j staft'of ‘ Boston Globe,’ Naval Brigade, 1 Oct. 1854 to 18 June 1855; U.S.A., 1887; correspondent in Cuba, 1888; Knight of Legion of Honour, Medjidieh, editor, ‘Press of Atlanta,’ Georgia, 1889 ; staff of Turkish medal; Ashantee, Kaffir, Zulu, and ‘ New York Herald,’ 1890; staff of ‘ London Daily Transvaal Wars, 1879-81; commanded Chatham Mail,’ 1896-98; author of ‘ Harold: an ExperiDistrict, 1882-83; 2nd Brigade (2nd Division) ment,’1891, ‘Drift,’ 1893, ‘The Tenth Island,’ Expedition to Egypt, 1882; raised the Egyptian 1897, ‘The Great Company,’-1899. (B. W*.) Army, 1883 ; served in Nile Expedition, 1894-95; commanded Eastern District, 1886-88; Aldershot WILSON, Maj.- Gen. Sir Charles Division, 1889-93; Quartermaster-Gen. to the William, R.E., K.C.B., K.C.M.G., D.C.L., Forces, 1893-97; Adjutant-General to Forces, LL.D., F.R.S.; secretary to North American 1897-1901 ; author of ‘ The Crimea in 1854-94,’ Boundary Commission, 1858-62 ; surveys of ‘ Cavalry at Waterloo,’ ‘ Achievements of Jerusalem and Palestine, 1864-66; Ordnance Cavalry.’ (E. Wo.) Survey of Scotland, 1866-68; survey of Sinai, 186869WOODBERRY,

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GeorgeDepartment Edward, A.B.; W.O., and A.Q.M.G. Intelligence Department, Professor Survey of EnglishIreland, Literature, Columbia Uni186976; Ordnance

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versity, New Yorkof; author of1876-78 ‘ The North Royal Commission on Registration of Deeds and Watch,’ ‘Life of E. A. Poe,’ ‘Heart of Man,’ Insurances in Ireland, 1878; British Commis‘ Studies in Letters and Life,’ ‘ Makers of sioner Servian Boundary Commission, 1878-79 ; ; Literature,’ etc. (G. E. W.) Consul-Gen. Anatolia, 1879-82; special mission WOODHEAD, German Sims, M.A. M.D. to Eastern Rumelia, 1880; and to Consulates Edin., F.R.C.P.Ed., F.R.S.Ed. ; Fellow of in Asiatic Turkey, 1881; special service in Egypt Trinity Hall, Cambridge; Prof, of Pathology, and attached to Lord Dufferin’s mission, 1882Cambridge Univ., since 1899 ; formerly Director 1883 ; D.A.G. (Intelligence Department) Nile of the Laboratories of the Conjoint Board of Expedition, 1884-85; Ordnance Survey of Irethe Royal Colleges of Physicians (London) and land, 1885-86 ; Director-Gen. Ordnance Survey, Surgeons (England); President Royal Medical 1886-94 ; Director-Gen. of Military Education, Society; acted as Assistant Commissioner to 1895-98 ; president Geographical Section British the Royal Commission on Tuberculosis, 1892-95 ; Association, Belfast, 1874 ; Bath, 1888 ; ViceSurgeon - Cap t. Volunteer Medical Staff Corps; President Royal Geographical Society, 1897-

author of ‘ Practical Pathology,’ ‘ Pathological Mycology’ (with Arthur W. Hare, M.B.), ‘Bacteria and their Products,’ ‘ Report to the Royal Commission on Tuberculosis,’ ‘ Report on Diphtheria ’ to the Metropolitan Asylums Board ; editor of the ‘Journal of Pathology and Bacteriology.’ (G. S. W.) WOODWARD, Arthur Smith, F.R.S., Hon. LL.D. (Glasgow); Asst. Keeper of Geology, British Museum; author of ‘ Cat. of Fossil Fishes in the British Museum,’ ‘ Outlines of Vertebrate Palaeontology,’ etc. (A S. Wo.) WOOLSEY, Th«?o. S., LL.D.; Professor of International Law, Yale University; editor of ‘ Woolsey’s International Law’ (6th ed.), and of ‘Pomeroy’s International Law’; author of ‘America’s Foreign Policy.’ (T. S. W.) WORCESTER, Dean Conant; Assistant Professor of Zoology, University of Michigan ; Member of the First and Second U.S. Philippines Commission ; author of ‘ The Philippine Islands and their People.’ (D. 0. W.) WRIGHT, Hon. Carroll Davidson; U.S. Commissioner of Labour; author of ‘ Factory System of the United States,’ ‘ Strikes and Lockouts,’ ‘Cost of Production of Iron, Steel, etc.,’ ‘ Industrial Evolution of the United States,’ ‘ Outline of Practical Sociology,’ etc. (0. D. W.) WRIGHT, Charles Theodore Hagberg, B.A., LL.D.; Secretary and Librarian, London Library ; Assistant Librarian, National Library of Ireland, 1890-93. (C. T. H. W.) WRIGHT, Lewis; author of ‘The Book of Poultry,’ ‘The Practical Poultry Keeper,’ ‘The Poultry Club Standards ’; editor of ‘ Fulton’s Book of Pigeons,’ etc. (L. We.) WYATT, J. W., A.M.I.C.E.; Fellow Roy. Indian Engineering Coll., Cooper’s Hill; author of ‘The Art of Making Paper,’ etc. (J. W. W.) Y YOUNG, Alexander Bell Filson; assistant editor of the ‘Pilot’ since 1901; special war correspondent of the ‘ Manchester Guardian,’ S.A.; author of various songs and instrumental works ‘The Relief of Mafeking,’ ‘Five Lyrics,’ ‘ A Volunteer Brigade,’ ‘ Mastersingers,’ etc. (A. B. F. Y.) YOUNG, Rev. William; for many years Minister at the English Presbyterian Church, Kersal, Manchester; Joint Secretary of the Religious Tract Society. (W. Y.) z ZIMMERN; Miss Alice; author of ‘The Renaissance of Girls,’ ‘Education in England ’ ‘ Methods of Education,’ etc. (A. Z.)