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A. W. Po.

Alfred William Pollard, M.A. Assistant Keeper of Printed Books, British Museum. Fellow of King’s College, London. Hon. Secretary, Bibliographical Society. Editor of Books about Books and Bibliographica. Joint-editor of The Library. Chief Editor of the “Globe” Chaucer.

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Book;
Book Collecting.

A. W. R.

Alexander Wood Renton, M.A., LL.B. Puisne Judge of the Supreme Court of Ceylon. Editor of Encyclopaedia of the Laws of England.

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Boarding-House.

B. R.

Sir Boverton Redwood, D.Sc., F.R.S. (Edin.), F.I.C., Assoc.Inst.C.E., M.Inst.M.E. Adviser on Petroleum to the Admiralty, Home Office, India Office, Corporation of London, and Port of London Authority. President of the Society of Chemical Industry. Member of the Council of the Chemical Society. Member of Council of Institute of Chemistry. Author of Cantor Lectures on Petroleum; Petroleum and its Products; Chemical Technology; &c.

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Bitumen.

C. B.*

Charles Bémont, D.ès.L., Litt.D. (Oxon.). See the biographical article: Bémont, C.

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Bréquigny.

C. D.

Cyril J. H. Davenport, F.S.A. Assistant to the Keeper of Printed Books, British Museum. Cantor Lecturer on Decorative Bookbindings, Society of Arts. Author of Royal English Bookbindings; English Embroidered Bookbindings; History of the Book; &c.

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Bookbinding.

C. D. W.

Hon. Carroll Davidson Wright. See the biographical article: Wright, C. D.

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Building Societies: United      States.

C. E.*

Charles Everitt, M.A., F.C.S., F.G.S., F.R.A.S. Formerly Scholar of Magdalen College, Oxford.

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Bone: Industrial.

C. E. A.

C. E. Akers. Formerly The Times Correspondent in Buenos Aires. Author of A History of South America, 1854–1904.

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Brazil: History (in part).

C. El.

Sir Charles Norton Edgcumbe Eliot, K.C.M.G., C.B., M.A., LL.D., D.C.L. Vice-Chancellor of Sheffield University. Formerly Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford. H.M.’s Commissioner and Commander-in-Chief for the British East Africa Pro­tectorate, Agent and Consul-General at Zanzibar, and Consul-General for German East Africa, 1900–1904. Author of Turkey in Europe; Letters from the Far East; &c.

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Bokhara (in part).

C. E. S.

Hon. Charles Emory Smith. See the biographical article: Smith, Charles Emory.

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Blaine.

C. H.

Charles Hose, D.Sc. Formerly Divisional Resident and Member of the Supreme Council of Sarawak. Author of A Descriptive Account of the Mammals of Borneo, and numerous papers in scientific journals.

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Brunei.

C. K. S.

Clement King Shorter. Editor of the Sphere. Author of Charlotte Brontë and her Circle; The Brontës: Life and Letters; &c.

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Brontë, C., E. and A..

C. L. K.

Charles Lethbridge Kingsford, M.A., F.R.Hist.S., F.S.A. Assistant Secretary to the Board of Education. Author of Life of Henry V. Editor of Chronicles of London and Stow’s Survey of London.

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Buckingham, 2nd Duke of.

C. Pf.

Christian Pfister, D. ès. L. Professor at the Sorbonne, Paris. Chevalier of the Legion of Honour. Author of Étude sur le règne de Robert le Pieux; Le Duché merovingien d’Alsace et la legende de Saint-Odile.

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Brunhilda.

C. S. S.

Charles Scott Sherrington, D.Sc., M.D., M.A., LL.D., F.R.S. Professor of Physiology, University of Liverpool. Foreign Member of Academies of Rome, Vienna, Brussels, Göttingen, &c. Author of The Integrative Action of the Nervous System.

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Brain: Physiology.

C. W. W.

Major-General Sir Charles William Wilson, K.C.B., K.C.M.G., F.R.S., R.E. ⁠(1836–1897). Secretary to the North American Boundary Commission, 1858–1862. British Commissioner on the Servian Boundary Commission. Director-General of the Ordnance Survey, 1886–1894. Director-General of Military Education, 1895–1898. Author of From Korti to Khartum; Life of Lord Clive; &c.

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Caesarea Mazaca (in part).

D. B. Ma.

Duncan Black Macdonald, M.A., D.D. Professor of Semitic Languages, Hartford Theological Seminary, U.S.A. Author of Development of Muslim Theology, Jurisprudence and Constitutional Theory; Selections from Ibn Khaldun; Religious Attitude and Life in Islam; &c.

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Bukhārī;
Cadi.

D. C. B.

Demetrius Charles Boulger. Author of History of Belgium; England and Russia in Central Asia; History of China; Life of Gordon; India in the 19th Century; &c.

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Bruges;
Brussels.

D. C. T.

David Croal Thomson. Formerly Editor of the Art Journal. Author of The Brothers Maris; The Barbizon School of Painters; Life of “Phiz”; Life of Bewick; &c.

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Browne, Hablôt Knight.

D. F. T.

Donald Francis Tovey. Balliol College, Oxford. Author of Essays in Musical Analysis: comprising The Classical Concerts, The Goldberg Variations, and analyses of many other classical works.

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Boccherini;
Bruckner.

D. H.

David Hannay. Formerly British Vice-Consul at Barcelona. Author of Short History of Royal Navy, 1217–1688; Life of Emilio Castelar; &c.

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Bouvet; Brenton;
Brigandage; Buccaneers;
Byng; Calderon, Rodrigo.