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Julian Robert John Jocelyn.
- Colonel, R.A. Formerly Member of the Ordnance Committee. Commandant, Ordnance College; Member of Ordnance Committee; Commandant, School of Gunnery. Author of Notes on Tactics and Reconnaissances; &c.
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Ordnance: Heavy Field and Siege Equipments, Garrison Mountings.
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| J. R. T.
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James Richard Thursfield, M.A.
- Honorary Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford. Formerly Dean, Fellow, Lecturer and Tutor of Jesus College. Author of Peel, &c.
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Parnell, Charles Stewart.
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| J. S. Co.
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James Sutherland Cotton, M.A.
- Editor of the Imperial Gazetteer of India. Hon. Secretary of the Egyptian Exploration Fund. Formerly Fellow and Lecturer of Queen’s College, Oxford. Author of India; &c.
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Omichund; Orme.
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| J. T. Be.
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John T. Bealby.
- Joint-author of Stanford’s Europe. Formerly Editor of the Scottish Geographical Magazine. Translator of Sven Hedin’s Through Asia, Central Asia and Tibet; &c.
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Odessa; Onega; Orel (government); Orenburg (government).
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| J. T. C.
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Joseph Thomas Cunningham, M.A., F.Z.S.
- Lecturer on Zoology at the South-Western Polytechnic, London. Formerly Fellow of University College, Oxford. Assistant Professor of Natural History in the University of Edinburgh. Naturalist to the Marine Biological Association.
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Oyster (in part).
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| J. V. B.
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James Vernon Bartlet, M.A., D.D. (St Andrews).
- Professor of Church History, Mansfield College, Oxford. Author of The Apostolic Age; &c.
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Papias; Paul, the Apostle.
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| J. W. W.
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J. W. Wyatt, A.M.Inst.C.E.
- Author of The Art of Making Paper, &c.
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Paper: Manufacture.
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| K. S.
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Kathleen Schlesinger.
- Editor of Portfolio of Musical Archaeology. Author of The Instruments of the Orchestra.
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Ophicleide (in part); Orchestra; Orchestrion; Organ: Ancient History; Organistrum; Pandura; Parsifal Bell-instrument.
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| L. Be.
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Léonce Bénédite.
- Keeper of the Musée National du Luxembourg. Professor at the École du Louvre. President of the Société des Peintres Orientalistes français. Author of Histoire des Beaux Arts, &c.
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Painting: Modern French.
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Papacy: to 1087; Paschal I.
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| L. v. P.
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Ludwig von Pastor, Ph.D.
- Director of the Austrian Institute of Historical Studies at Rome. Professor of History and Director of the Historical Seminary in the University of Innsbruck. Hofrat of the Austrian Empire. Commander of the Order of Francis Joseph, &c. Author of Geschichte der Papste, &c. Editor of the Acta pontificum Romanorum.
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Papacy: 1305-1590.
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| L. F. D.
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Lewis Foreman Day, F.S.A. (1845-1909).
- Formerly Vice-President of the Society of Arts. Past Master of the Art Workers’ Gild. Author of Windows, a book about Stained Glass; &c.
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Ornament.
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| L. J. B.
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Lawrence J. Burpee.
- Public Librarian of the City of Ottawa. Author of The Search for the Western Sea. Joint author (with Henry J. Morgan) of Canadian Life in Town and Country, &c.
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Ottawa (Canada).
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| L. J. S.
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Leonard James Spencer, M.A.
- Assistant in the Department of Mineralogy, British Museum. Formerly Scholar of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, and Harkness Scholar. Editor of the Mineralogical Magazine.
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Oligoclase; Olivenite; Olivine; Orthoclase; Parisite.
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| L. R. F.
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Lewis Richard Farnell, M.A., Litt.D.
- Fellow and Senior Tutor of Exeter College, Oxford. University Lecturer in Classical Archaeology; Wilde Lecturer in Comparative Religion. Corresponding Member of Imperial German Archaeological Institute. Author of Cults of Greek States; Evolution of Religion; &c.
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Oracle.
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| M. G. D.
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Rt. Hon Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant Duff, G.C.S.I., F.R.S. (1829-1906).
- M.P. for the Elgin Burghs, 1857-1881. Under-Secretary of State for India, 1868-1874. Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies, 1880-1881. Governor of Madres, 1881-1886. President of the Royal Geographical Society, 1889-1893. President of the Royal Historical Society, 1892-1899. Author of Studies in European Politics; Notes from a Diary; &c.
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Oliphant, Laurence.
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| M. H. S.
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Marion H. Spielmann, F.S.A.
- Formerly Editor of the Magazine of Art. Member of Fine Art Committee of International Exhibitions of Brussels, Paris, Buenos Aires, Rome, and the Franco-British Exhibition, London. Author of History of “Punch”; British Portrait Painting to the Opening of the Nineteenth Century; Works of G. F. Watts, R.A.; British Sculpture and Sculptors of To-day; Henriette Ronner; &c.
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Painting: Recent British; Pastel.
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| M. Ja.
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Morris Jastrow, Ph.D.
- Professor of Semitic Languages, University of Pennsylvania. Author of Religion of the Babylonians and Assyrians; &c.
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Omen.
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| M. M. Bh.
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Sir Mancherjee Merwanjee Bhownagree.
- Fellow of Bombay University. M.P. for N.E. Bethnal Green, 1895-1906. Author of History of the Constitution of the East India Company; &c.
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Patel.
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| M. N. T.
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Marcus Niebuhr Tod, M.A.
- Fellow and Tutor of Oriel College. Oxford. University Lecturer in Epigraphy. Joint-author of Catalogue of the Sparta Museum.
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Pausanias: Commander.
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