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memoirs appear in the present volume of the Second Supplement,
which is designed to furnish biographies of noteworthy persons dying between 22 Jan. 1901 and 31 Dec. 1911. The contributors number 180. The callings of those whose careers are recorded here may be broadly catalogued under ten general headings thus : NAMES Administration of Government at home, in India, and the colonies 73 Army and navy ......... 37 Art (including architecture, music, and the stage) ... 80 Commerce and agriculture . . . . . . .16 Law 29 Literature (including journalism, philology, and philosophy) . 125 Rehgion 68 Science (including engineering, medicine, surgery, exploration, and economics) ......... 90 Social Reform (including philanthropy and education) . . 39 Sport 21 The names of eighteen women are included on account of services rendered to art, literature, science, and social or educational reform. Articles bear the initials of their writers save in a very few cases where material has been furnished to the Editor on an ampler scale than the purpose of the undertaking permitted him to use. In such instances the Editor and his staff are solely responsible for the shape which the article has taken, and no signature is appended.
- ^* In the lists of authors' publications only the date of issue is appended to the titles
of works which were pubhshed in London in 8vo. In other cases the place of issue and size are specified in addition. Cross references are given thus : to names in the substantive work [q. v.] ; to names in the First Supplement [q. v. Suppl. I] ; and to names in the Second and present Supplement [q. v. Suppl. II].
