Encyclopædia Britannica.
Vol. III.—(ATH-BOI).
PRINCIPAL CONTENTS.
- ATHENS.Rev. Edward L. Hicks, M.A., Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford.
- ATHLETIC SPORTS.H. F. Wilkinson, one of the Editors of "The Field."
- ATLANTIC.William B. Carpenter, M.D., C.B., LL.D., F.R.S.
- ATMOSPHERE.Alex. Buchan, Secretary of the Meteorological Society of Scotland.
- ATOM.J. Clerk Maxwell, D.C.L., F.R.S., late Professor of Experimental Physics, University of Cambridge.
- ATTICA.Rev. Henry F. Tozer, M.A., F.R.G.S., Author of "Geography of Greece."
- ATTRACTION.Prof. G. Clerk Maxwell.
- AUGUSTAN HISTORY.Richard Garnett, British Museum.
- AUGUSTINE.Very Rev. Principal Tulloch.
- AUGUSTUS.Very Rev. Charles Merivale, D.C.L., D.D., Dean of Ely.
- AUSTRALIA.R. Acton.
- AUSTRIA.David Kay, F.R.G.S.
- AXIOM.G. Croom Robertson, Professor of Logic, University College, London.
- BABYLONIA.Rev. A. H. Sayce, M.A., Fellow and Tutor of Queens College, Oxford.
- BACON.Robert Adamson, M.A., Professor of Political Economy, Owens College, Manchester.
- BAGHDAD.Sir Henry C. Rawlinson, K.C.B., D.C.L., late President of Royal Geographical Society.
- BAKING.James Paton, Kelvingrove Industrial Museum, Glasgow.
- BALANCE.William Dittmar, M.D., Professor of Chemistry, Andersonian University, Glasgow.
- BALANCE OF POWER.Henry Reeve, C.B., Registrar of H.M. Privy Council.
- BALLADS.Andrew Lang.
- BALLOT.W. C. Smith, LL.B., Advocate.
- BALTIC.Dr Carpenter, C.B.
- BANKING.Leonard H. Courtney, M.P.
- BANKRUPTCY.Edmund Robertson, Professor of Roman Law, University College, London; (American Law) J. Lowell.
- BAPTISM.Prof. T. M. Lindsay, D.D.
- BAPTISTS.Rev. F. W. Gotch, LL.D.
- BARBADOS.J. L. Ohlson, Secretary to West India Committee, London.
- BAROMETER.Alex. Buchan, F.R.S.E.
- BARRACKS.Col. Chas. B. Ewart, C.B., Deputy Director of Works for Barracks.
- BASILICA.Rev. Canon Venables.
- BATHS.Dr John Macpherson, Author of "Baths and Wells of Europe."
- BATTLE.Col. Charles Chesney, R.E.
- BEARD.John Doran, Ph.D., late Editor of "Notes and Queries."
- BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER.Algernon Charles Swinburne.
- BECHWANA.Rev. Dr Moffat.
- BEE.John Hunter, late Hon. Secretary British Bee-Keeper's Association.
- BEETHOVEN.F. Hueffer, Author of "Wagner and the Music of the Future."
- BELGIUM.David Kay, F.R.G.S.
- BELL.Rev. H. R. Haweis, M.A., Author of "Music and Morals."
- BELLINI.Prof. Sidney Colvin, University of Cambridge.
- BELLOWS.A. B. MacDowall, London.
- BENGAL.W. W. Hunter, LL.D.,
- BENTHAM.T. E. Holland, M.A., B.C.L., Chichele Professor of International Law, Oxford.
- BENTLEY.Rev. Mark Pattison, Rector of Lincoln College, Oxford, Author of "Isaac Casaubon, 1559-1614.
- BERKELEY.Prof. Robert Adamson, Owens College, Manchester.
- BERLIN.Rev. G. P. Davies.
- BEZIQUE.Henry Jones ("Cavendish").
- BIBLE.W. Robertson Smith, Professor of Hebrew, Free Church College, Aberdeen.
- BIBLIOGRAPHY.E. Fairfax Taylor.
- BILLIARDS.G. F. Pardon ("Capt. Crawley").
- BIOLOGY.Prof. Huxley and W. T. Thistleton Dyer, F.R.S.
- BIRDS.Prof. W. K. Parker, Royal College of Surgeons, London; and Prof. Alfred Newton, Cambridge.
- BIRMINGHAM.J. T. Bunce, Editor "Birmingham Daily Post."
- BISHOP.Sir Travers Twiss, Q.C.
- BISMUTH.H. Bauerman, Fellow of the Geological Society.
- BLACK SEA.Dr Carpenter, C.B.
- BLEACHING.James Paton, Kelvingrove Industrial Museum, Glasgow.
- BLIND.F. J. Campbell.
- BLOCK MACHINERY.Thomas Morley, F.I.N.A.
- BLOWPIPE.A. B. MacDowall.
- BOCCACCIO.F. Hueffer, Author of "Wagner and the Music of the Future."
- BOETIUS.James Donaldson, LL.D., Author of "Early Christians Literature."
