BADEN-POWELL, LIEUTENANT-GENERAL SIR ROBERT,
Bart., K.C.B., K.C.V.O., LL.D. (R.B.-P.) Chief Scout.
Boy Scouts (United Kingdom).
BAGNALL-WILD, BRIGADIER-GENERAL RALPH KIRBY,
C.M.G., C.B.E., R.A.F., M.I.Mech.E. (R.K.B.-W.) Director
of Aircraft Inspection. Fellow and Past Chairman of the
Royal Aeronautical Society. Commission, Royal Engineers,
1893. Inspector of Aircraft, 1913.
Aeronautics (Materials and Methods of Manufacture).
BAILEY, MAJOR FREDERICK MARSHMAN, C.I.E. (F.M.B.)
Indian Political Department. Gold Medallist of the Royal
Geographical Society, 1916.
Turkestan, West.
BAIRSTOW, LEONARD, C.B.E., F.R.S., F.R.Ae.S., F.Inst.P.
(L.Bw.) Professor of Aerodynamics at the Imperial College
of Science and Technology, South Kensington. Author of
Applied Aerodynamics.
Aeronautics (Aerodynamics).
BAKER, HENRY FREDERICK, Sc.D., F.R.S. (H.F.Ba.) Lowndean Professor of Astronomy and Geometry, Cambridge. Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge. Mathematics (Geometry). BAKER, S. JOSEPHINE, M.D., D.P.H. (S.J.B.*) Director Bureau of Child Hygiene, Department of Health, New York City. Consultant in Child Hygiene, U.S. Public Health Service. Former President American Child Hygiene Association. Infantile Mortality (United States).
BALFOUR, SIR ISAAC BAYLEY, K.B.E., M.D., LL.D., M.A., F.R.S. (I.B.B.) Regius Keeper of the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh. Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford. Botany (Horticultural Exploration).
BALLANCE, SIR CHARLES, K.C.M.G., C.B., M.V.O., M.S. (C.A.B.) Consulting Surgeon to St. Thomas's Hospital and to the British Army in the World War. Vice-President of the Royal College of Science. Heart and Lung Surgery.
BARCLAY, SIR THOMAS. (T.BA.) Barrister-at-Law. Vice-Presi- dent and Acting President of the Institute of International Law. Author of Problems of International Practice and Diplomacy; New Methods of Adjusting International Disputes; Collapse and Reconstruction; etc. International Law.
BARKER, ALDRED FARRER, M.Sc. (A.F.B.) Professor of Textile Industries in the University of Leeds. Author or Joint-author of Wool Carding and Combing; Textile Design; Cloth Analysis; etc. Wool.
BARKER, EUGENE CAMPBELL, Ph.D. (E.C.BA.) Professor of American History, and Chairman of the Department of History, University of. Texas. Joint-author of A School History of Texas. Managing Editor, Southwestern Historical Quarterly. Texas.
BARNES, FRANK GEORGE. (F.G.B.) Superintendent, Homerton Residential School for the Deaf. Formerly Editor of The Teacher of the Deaf. Officer of the French Academy. Deaf and Dumb.
BARNES, JAMES STRACHEY, F.R.G.S. (J.S.Ba.) Author of “The Future of the Aldanian State” (R.G.S. Journal, July 1918). Albania.
BARROWS, DAVID PRESCOTT, M.A., Ph.D., LL.D. (D.P.B.) President of the University of California. Professor of Education, University of California, 1910. President, Board of Trustees, Mills College, California, 1910–7. Author of the Ethno-Botany of the Coahuilla Indians; A History of the Philippines; etc. California, University of.
BARTLETT, EDWIN JULIUS, A.M., M.D., D.Sc. (Hon., Dart- mouth). (E.J.B.) Emeritus Professor of Chemistry, Dart- mouth College, Hanover, N.H. New Hampshire.
BATESON, WILLIAM, M.A., F.R.S. (W.B N .) Author of Materials
for the Study of Variation; Mendel's Principles of Heredity;
Problems of Genetics; etc. See the biographical article:
Bateson, William.
Genetics; Mendelism; Sex.
BAYLISS, WILLIAM MADDOCK, M.A., D.Sc., LL.D., F.R.S. (W.M.B.) Professor of General Physiology in University College, London. Author of Principles of General Physiology- Nature of Enzyme Action; etc. Physiology; Shock.
BEDDOES, MAJOR CLAUDE EAGLES WILLOUGHBY, O.B.E. (C.E.W.B.) Gloucestershire Regiment. Inspector of Grenade Training, G.H.Q., Great Britain, 1915–8. Experimental Officer for Grenades and Trench Stores, Ministry of Munitions, 1915–9. Control Officer, Inter-Allied Commission of Control, 1919. Dogs, War (in part); Grenades (in part).
BEILBY, SIR GEORGE THOMAS, F.R.S., LL.D., D.Sc. (G.T.B.) Director of Fuel Research, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research. See the biographical article: Beilby, Sir George Thomas. Fuel.
BELL, AUBREY FITZGERALD. (A.F.G.B.) Author of Portugal of the Portuguese; Studies in Portuguese Literature; etc. Portugal.
BENTON, ELBERT JAY, Ph.D. (E.J.B.*) Professor of History in Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio. Author of The Wabash Trade Route; International Law and Diplomacy of the Spanish-American War. Joint-author of Introductory American History; History of the United States. Ohio.
BERTHAUT, GENERAL HENRI. (H.Be.) Sub-Chief of the General Staff of the French Army, 1903–12. Author of La Carte de France; Topologie; De la Marne a la Mer du Nord; L' Erreur de 1914; etc. Western European Front Campaigns (in part). BEST, OTMAR (O.B.) Member of the Staff of the Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung. Germany (Political History, in part).
BETHELL, BRIGADIER-GENERAL HENRY ARTHUR, C.M.G. (H.A.B.) Late Royal Field Artillery. Author of Modern Guns and Gunnery; Modern Artillery in the Field. Artillery (in part).
BETTELHEIM, ANTON, Dr. Juris. (A.B.) Austrian Empire (Literature and Drama).
BEVERIDGE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY, K.C.B., M.A., B.C.L. (W.H.B.) Director of London School of Economics and Political Science. Formerly Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Food. Author of Unemployment: A Problem of Industry; etc. Food Supply (in part); Rationing (in part).
BEZA, MARCU, L.ÈSL. (M.B.*) Lecturer at King's College, London. Author of O Viata; Din Anglia; Papers on the Rumanian People and Literature; etc. Rumania (Literature).
BISHOP, JOSEPH BUCKLIN. (J.B.Bi.) Secretary to the Panama Canal Commission, 1905–14. Author of The Panama Gateway. Panama Canal.
BLACKMAN, VERNON HERBERT, Sc.D., F.R.S. (V.H.B.) Professor of Plant Physiology and Pathology in the Imperial College of Science and Technology. Botany (General Physiology).
BLAGDEN, CHARLES OTTO, M.A. (C.O.B.) Reader in Malay in the University of London and in the School of Oriental Studies, London Institution. Austric Family of Languages.
BLANCHARD, RALPH HARRUB. (R.H.B.) Assistant Professor of Insurance at Columbia University. Author of Liability and Compensation Insurance. Insurance (United States).
BLAND, JOHN OTWAY PERCY. (J.O.P.B.) Author of China; Japan and Korea; Houseboat Days in China. Joint-author of China under the Empress Dowager. Served in Chinese Maritime Customs, 1883–96. Shanghai Correspondent for The Times, 1897–1910. China; Hankow; Hart, Sir Robert; Manchuria; Mongolia; Shanghai; Tibet; Tientsin.
BLENNERHASSETT, CAPTAIN WILLIAM LEWIS, D.S.O., O.B.E. (W.L.B.) French Croix de Guerre. Acting British Vice-Consul at Kovno, Lithuania. Finland; Isvolsky, A . P.; Lithuania.
BLUME, WILHELM VON, Drjuris. (W.v.B.) Professor of Law in the University of Tubingen. Author of Familienrecht des Biirgerlichen Gesetzbuchs; Erbrecht des Burgerlichen Ge- setzbuchs. Cooperated in the drafting of the Constitution of Wiirttemberg, 1919. Baden; Bavaria (in part); Thuringia; Württemberg.
BOEHM, FRITZ. (F.B.*) On the staff of the Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung.
Germany (Reform of the School System).
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