ion_; &c.

- Bible, English: _Revised Version_.

H. H. J. - SIR HARRY HAMILTON JOHNSTON, D.SC., G.C.M.G., K.C.B.
See the biographical article: JOHNSTON, SIR H. H.

- Bantu Languages.

H. M. R. - HUGH MUNRO ROSS.
Formerly Exhibitioner of Lincoln College, Oxford. Editor of _The Times
Engineering Supplement_. Author of _British Railways_.

- Bell: _House Bell._

H. M. W. - H. MARSHALL WARD, M.A., F.R.S., D.SC. (d. 1905).
Formerly Professor of Botany, Cambridge. President of the British
Mycological Society. Author of _Timber and some of its Diseases_; _The
Oak_; _Sach's Lectures the Physiology of Plants_; _Grasses_; _Disease in
Plants_; &c.

- Bacteriology (_in part_); Berkeley, Miles Joseph.

H. N. D. - HENRY NEWTON DICKSON, M.A., D.SC., F.R.G.S.
Professor of Geography, University College, Reading. Author of _Elementary
Meteorology_; _Papers on Oceanography_; &c.

- Baltic Sea.

H. W. C. D. - Henry William Carless Davis, M.A.
Fellow and Tutor of Balliol College, Oxford. Fellow of All Souls', Oxford,
1895-1902. Author of _Charlemagne_; _England under the Normans and
Angevins, 1066-1272._

- Becket; Benedictus Abbas.

H. W. S. - H. WICKHAM STEED.
Correspondent of _The Times_ at Rome (1897-1902) and Vienna.

- Austria-Hungary: _History_ (_in part_); Bertani.

I. A. - ISRAEL ABRAHAMS, M.A.
Reader in Talmudic and Rabbinic Literature, University of Cambridge.
President, Jewish Historical Society of England. Author of _A Short History
of Jewish Literature_; _Jewish Life in the Middle Ages_; &c.

- Bahya.

J. An. - JOSEPH ANDERSON, LL.D.
Keeper of the National Museum of Antiquities, Edinburgh, and Assistant
Secretary of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. Honorary Professor of
Antiquities to the Royal Scottish Academy. Author of _Scotland in Early
Christian and Pagan Times_.

- Barrow.

J. A. H. - JOHN ALLEN HOWE, B.SC.
Curator and Librarian at the Museum of Practical Geology, London.

- Avonian; Bajocian; Barton Beds; Bathonian Series; Bed: _Geology_.

J. B. B. - JOHN BAGNELL BURY, LL.D., LITT.D.
See the biographical article: BURY, J. B.

- Baldwin I. and II.: _of Romania_; Basil I. and II.: _Emperors_;
Belisarius.

J. D. B. - JAMES DAVID BOURCHIER, M.A., F.R.G.S.
King's College, Cambridge. Correspondent of _The Times_ in South-Eastern
Europe. Commander of the Orders of Prince Danilo of Montenegro and of the
Saviour of Greece, and Officer of the Order of St Alexander of Bulgaria.

- Balkan P