te; Azurite; Barytes; Bauxite; Biotite.

L. V.* - LUIGI VILLARI.
Italian Foreign Office (Emigration Dept.). Formerly Newspaper Correspondent
in East of Europe. Author of _Italian Life in Town and Country_; &c.

- Azeglio; Bandiera, A. and E.; Bassi, Ugo; Bentivoglio, Giovanni.

L. W. K. - LEONARD WILLIAM KING, M.A., F.S.A.
Assistant to the Keeper of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities, British
Museum. Lecturer in Assyrian at King's College, London. Conducted
Excavations at Kuyunjik (Nineveh) for British Museum. Author of _Assyrian
Chrestomathy_; _Annals of the Kings of Assyria_; _Studies in Eastern
History_; _Babylonian Magic and Sorcery_; &c.

- Babylonia and Assyria: _Chronology_.

M. A. C. - MAURICE A. CANNEY, M.A.
Assistant Lecturer in Semitic Languages in the University of Manchester.
Formerly Exhibitioner of St John's College, Oxford. Pusey and Ellerton
Hebrew Scholar (Oxford), 1892; Kennicott Hebrew Scholar, 1895; Houghton
Syriac Prize, 1896.

- Baur.

M. Br. - MARGARET BRYANT.

- Beaumont and Fletcher: _Appendix_.

M. D. Ch. - SIR MACKENZIE DALZELL CHALMERS, K.C.B., C.S.I., M.A.
Trinity College, Oxford. Barrister-at-Law. Formerly Permanent
Under-Secretary of State for Home Department. Author of _Digest of the Law
of Bills of Exchange_; &c.

- Bill of Exchange.

M. G. - MOSES GASTER, PH.D. (Leipzig).
Chief Rabbi of the Sephardic Communities of England. Vice-President,
Zionist Congress, 1898, 1899, 1900. Ilchester Lecturer at Oxford on
Slavonic and Byzantine Literature, 1886 and 1891. Author of _A New Hebrew
Fragment of Ben-Sira_; _The Hebrew Version of the Secretum Secretorum of
Aristotle_.

- Bassarab.

M. H. C. - MONTAGUE HUGHES CRACKANTHORPE, K.C., D.C.L.
Honorary Fellow, St John's College, Oxford. Bencher of Lincoln's Inn.
President of the Eugenics Education Society. Formerly Member of the General
Council of the Bar and of the Council of Legal Education, and Standing
Counsel to the University of Oxford.

- Bering Sea Arbitration.

M. Ja. - MORRIS JASTROW, PH.D.
Professor of Semitic Languages, University of Pennsylvania. Author of
_Religion of the Babylonians and Assyrians_; &c.

- Babylonia and Assyria: _Proper Names_; Babylonian and Assyrian Religion;
Bel; Belit.

M. P.* - LEON JACQUES MAXIME PRINET.
Auxiliary of the Institute of France (Academy of Moral and Political
Sciences), Author of _L'Industrie du sel en Franche-Comte._

- Avaray; Bar-le-Duc; Batarnay; Bauffremont; Beauharnais