BEST, Richard Irvine, Assistant Librarian, National Library of Ireland (1904); Hon. Secretary, School of Irish Learning (1903); Member of the Royal Irish Academy (1906); Leibniz Medal, Royal Prussian Academy (1914); Hon. D.Litt., National University of Ireland (1920). Pubns.: The Irish Mythological Cycle and Celtic Mythology (translated from the French of H. D'Arbois de Jubainville, with additional notes, 1903); Bibliography of Irish Philology and Printed Irish Literature, Dublin, H.M.S.O., 1913; various editions and translations of Middle-Irish texts, palæographical and bibliographical papers; contributed to Eriu, Zeitschrift für Celtische Philologie, Anecdota from Irish MSS.; Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, etc. Res.: 57 Upper Leeson Street, Dublin.