.

- Beza.

A. G. G. - SIR ALFRED GEORGE GREENHILL, M.A., F.R.S.
Formerly Professor of Mathematics in the Ordnance College, Woolwich. Author
of _Differential and Integral Calculus with Applications_; _Hydrostatics_;
_Notes on Dynamics_; &c.

- Ballistics.

A. Hl. - ARTHUR HASSALL, M.A.
Student and Tutor of Christ Church, Oxford. Author of _A Handbook of
European History_; _The Balance of Power_; &c. Editor of the 3rd edition of
T. H. Dyer's _History of Modern Europe_.

- Austria-Hungary: _History_ (_in part_).

A. H. N. - ALBERT HENRY NEWMAN, LL.D., D.D.
Professor of Church History, Baylor University, Texas. Professor at
McMaster University, Toronto, 1881-1901. Author of _The Baptist Churches in
the United States_; _Manual of Church History_; _A Century of Baptist
Achievement_.

- Baptists: _American_.

A. H.-S. - SIR A. HOUTUM-SCHINDLER, C.I.E.
General in the Persian Army. Author of _Eastern Persian Irak_.

- Azerb[=a]ij[=a]n; Bakhtiari; Bander Abb[=a]si; Barfurush.

A. H. S. - REV. ARCHIBALD HENRY SAYCE, D.LITT., LL.D.
See the biographical article: SAYCE, A. H.

- Babylon; Babylonia and Assyria; Belshazzar; Berossus.

A. J. L. - ANDREW JACKSON LAMOUREUX.
Librarian, College of Agriculture, Cornell University. Editor of the _Rio
News_ (Rio de Janeiro), 1879-1901.

- Bahia: _State_; Bahia: _City_.

A. L. - ANDREW LANG.
See the biographical article: LANG, ANDREW.

- Ballads.

A. N. - ALFRED NEWTON, F.R.S.
See the biographical article: NEWTON, ALFRED.

- Birds of Paradise.

A. P. H. - ALFRED PETER HILLIER, M.D., M.P.
President, South African Medical Congress, 1893. Author of _South African
Studies_; &c. Served in Kaffir War, 1878-1879. Partner with Dr L. S.
Jameson in medical practice in South Africa till 1896. Member of Reform
Committee, Johannesburg, and Political Prisoner at Pretoria, 1895-1896.
M.P. for Hitchin division of Herts, 1910.

- Basutoland: _History_ (_in part_); Bechuanaland (_in part_).

A. Sp. - ARCHIBALD SHARP.
Consulting Engineer and Chartered Patent Agent.

- Bicycle.

A. St H. G. - Alfred St Hill Gibbons.
Major, East Yorkshire Regiment. Explorer in South Central Africa. Author of
_Africa from South to North through Marotseland_.

- Barotse, Barotseland.

A. W.* - ARTHUR WILLEY, F.R.S., D.SC.
Director of Colombo Museum, Ceylon.

- Balanoglossus.

A. W. H.* - ARTHUR WILLIAM HOLLAND.
Formerly Scholar of St John's College, Oxford. Bacon Scholar of Gray's Inn,
1900.