A full Index to the Dictionary, including the Supplement, is in preparation. The names of articles appearing both in the substantive work and in the Supplement will be set forth there in a single alphabet with precise references to volume and page.
The following are some of the chief articles in this volume :
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Sir Henry Wentworth Acland, Physician,
by Mr. D'Arcy Power. John Couch Adams, Astronomer, by Miss A. M. Gierke.
Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh and Saxe Coburg, by
Professor J. K. Laughton. Grant Allen, by Mr. J. S. Cotton.
Lord Armstrong, by the Rev. H. P. Gurney, D.C.L.
Matthew Arnold, by Dr. Richard Garnett, C.B., LL.D.
John Ball, the Alpine Traveller,
by Mr. Douglas Freshfield. Aubrey Beardsley, by Sir Walter Armstrong.
Archbishop Benson, by the Rev. Canon Mason, D.D.
Sir Henry Bessemer, by Mr. James Dredge, C.M.G.
George Charles Bingham, third Earl of Lucan,
Field Marshal, by Colonel E. M. Lloyd. Samuel Birch, Egyptologist, by Dr. Wallis Budge.
Richard D. Blackmore, Novelist, by Mr. Stuart J. Reid.
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Mrs. Catherine Booth, ‘Mother’ of the Salvation Army, by the Rev. Ronald Bayne.
Lord Bowen, by Sir Herbert Stephen, Bart.
Charles Bradlaugh, by Mr. J. R. Mac-donald.
John Bright, by Mr. I. S. Leadam.
Ford Madox Brown, Painter, by Mr. F. G. Stephens.
Robert Browning, by Mr. Edmund Gosse.
Henry Austin Bruce, first Lord Aberdare, by Sir Mountstuart Grant-Duff, G.C.S.I.
Sir Edward Burne Jones, by Mr. T. Humphry Ward.
Sir Frederic Burton, Director of the National Gallery, by Sir Theodore Martin, K.C.B., K.C.V.O.
Sir Richard Burton, Author and Scholar, by Mr. J. S. Cotton.
George Douglas Campbell, eighth Duke of Argyll, by the Hon. George Peel (with an estimate of the Duke's scientific work by Sir Archibald Geikie, F.R.S.).
Arthur Cayley, Mathematician, by Professor A. R. Forsyth, F.R.S.
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