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16 U.S. Commissioner to China, etc.; author of ‘ Land of the Llamas.’. (W. W. R.)

ROCKWELL, General Alfred P., author of ‘ Fire,’ ‘ Fire Extinction,’ in Ninth Edition of 1 Ency. Brit.’ (A. P. R.)

ROGERS, Henry Wade, LL.D. ; Lecturer at Yale University ; sometime President of North Western University, Evanston, Ills. ; Chairman of the World’s Congress on Jurisprudence and Law Reform, World’s Columbian Exposition; author of‘Expert Testimony, etc. (H. W. R.)

ROLLS, Hon. C. S. : pioneer in motor-car travelling. (C. S. R.)

ROSCOE, Sir Henry Enfield, Ph.D., LL.D., D.C.L., M.D., F.R.8. ; Vice-Chancellor, University of London; Emeritus Professor, Owens College, Victoria University ; Member of Royal Commissions on Noxious Vapours, Technical Instruction, Scottish Universities, Secondary Education, and Exhibition of 1851; President of the British Association (Manchester, 1887); President Society of Chemical Industry, 1881; President Chemical Society, 1882; author of ‘ Lessons in Elementary Chemistry,’ 1 Treatise on Chemistry,’ 1 Primer of Chemistry,’ ‘John Dalton,’ ‘New View of the Genesis of the Atomic Theory of Chemistry ’ (with Dr Harden). (H. E. R.)

ROSEWATER, Victor, AM., Ph.D.; managing editor of the Omaha Bee, Omaha, Nebraska ; Member Omaha Public Library Bd., Am. Economic Assn., Am. Library Assn., Neb. Historical Society ; author of ‘ Special Assessments: a Study in Municipal Finance.’ (V. R.)

ROSS, H. M., B.A. ; formerly exhibitioner of Lincoln Coll., Oxford; writer on engineering and scientific subjects ; associate editor of the new volumes of the ‘ Encyclopajdia Britannica.’ (H. M. R.)

ROSSETTI, William Michael; Professional Assistant to Board of Inland Rev. for Estate duty on Pictures and Drawings; author of ‘ Canova,’ ‘ Correggio,’ ‘ Fiesole,’ ‘ Ghirlandajo,’ ‘Lippi,’ ‘Murillo,' ‘ Perugino,’ ‘Reni,’ ‘Rosa,’ ‘Shelley,’ ‘Titian,’ ‘Veronese,’ etc., in Ninth Edition of ‘ Ency. Brit.’; ‘ Fine Art, chiefly contemporary,’ ‘Lives of Famous Poets,’ ‘Life of Keats,’ ‘Dante G. Rossetti as Designer and Writer,’ ‘Memoir of Dante G. Rossetti’; editor of ‘The Germ,’ 1850, of ‘Shelley’s Poems,’ of ‘ Wm. Blake’s Poems,’ of ‘ Poems by Dante and Christina Rossetti,’ of ‘Ruskin,’ ‘Rossetti,’ ‘ Prseraphaelitism,’ of ‘ Preeraphaslite Diari s and Letters,’ etc. (W. M. R.)

ROWLAND, Henry Augustus, Ph.D., LL.D., F.R.S., the late; Professor of Physics, Johns Hopkins University ; recipient of Rumford, Draper, and Matteucci medals for scientific discoveries; Hon. Member Inst, of France,etc.; author of ‘ Screw ’ in Ninth Edition of ‘ Ency. Brit.’ (H. A. R.)

RUFFINI, Arthur; Royal Naval Academy, Leghorn. (A. R*.)

RUGE, Dr Sophus ; Professor of Geography, University of Dresden; author of ‘ Map ’ in Ninth Edition of ‘Ency. Brit.,’ ‘Geschichte des Zeitalters der Entdeckungen,’ ‘ Abhandlungen und Vortriige zur Geschichte der Erdkunde,’ ‘Christopher Columbus,’ etc. (S. R.)

RUSSELL, Hon. Bertrand Arthur William, M.A. ; Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge ; author of ‘ German Social Democracy,’ ‘ Essay on the Foundations of Geometry,’ ‘Philosophy of Leibnitz.’ (B. A. W. R.)

RUSSELL, George William Erskine, LL.D. ; Parliamentary Secretary to the Local Government Board, 1883-85; Under-Secretary of State for India, 1892-94; for the Home Department, 1894-95 ; author of ‘ A Monograph on the Rt. Hon. W. E. Gladstone,’ ‘Letters of Matthew Arnold,’ ‘ Collections and Recollections, 1898.’ (G. W. E. R.)

SACHS, Edwin O., A.M.I.C.E. ; Chairman of British Fire Prevention Committee ; Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society; Associate of the Institution of Naval Architects, etc.; in 1898 he applied electrical power to the working of the stage at Drury Lane; in 1899 he was appointed technical adviser to the Royal Opera, Covent Garden ; founded in 1897 the British Fire Prevention Committee, and in 1899 the first independent fire-testing station established in Europe; author of ‘ Modern Opera Houses and Theatres,’ ‘ Stage Construction,’ ‘Fires and Public Entertainments. (E. O. S.)

ST. JOHN, Molyneux; Ottawa, Canada. (M. St. J.)

SAMPSON, SRear - Admiral William Thomas, LL.D.; in command of U.S. North Atlantic Squadron, battle of Santiago; late I SCOTT, Hon. Sir John, M.A., D.C.L., Commandant U.S. Navy Yard, Boston, Mass.; j ■ K.C.M.G. ; Deputy Judge-Advocate-General to His Majesty’s Forces; Judge, afterwards Member of International Prime Meridian and j Vice-President, International Court of Appeal Time Conference; U.S. Delegate to Inter- ! in Egypt, 1874-82; Judge of High Court, national Maritime Conference ; Chief of U.S. Bombay, 1882-90 ; Judicial Adviser to the Bureau of Ordnance, 1893-97. (W. T. S.)

Khedive of Egypt, 1890-98 ; Vice-President

SAUNDERS, George, B.A. ; Berlin Corre

International Law Association ; Grand Cordon

spondent of ‘ The Times ’; late Berlin Corre

of the Medjidieh; Grand Cordon of the Os

spondent of the ‘ Morning Post,’ etc. (G. Su.)

manieh. (Jno. S.)

SAYCE, Rev. Archibald Henry, M.A.,

SCOTT, Leslie Frederic; Barrister-at-Law, LL.D., D.D.; Fellow of Queen’s College, Oxford; Inner Temple. (L. F. S.)

Professor of Assyriology, Oxford; Member of O.T. Revision Company, 1874-84 ; Deputy Pro-

SCOTT, W. W. ; foreign sub-editor of ‘ The fessor of Comparative Philology, Oxford, 1876Times.’ (W. W. S*.) 90 ; Hibbert Lect., 1887 ; Gifford Lect., 1900-1; Sir Colin Campauthor of ‘ Babylonia,’ ‘ Cyrus,’ ‘ Darius,’ ‘ Gram-

SCOTT-MONCRIEFF, bell, K.C.M.G., C.S.I., LL.D. ; Under-Sec

mar,’ ‘ Humboldt,’ ‘ Inscriptions ’ (Cuneiform retary for Scotland ; Irrigation Depart. N.W. and Semitic), ‘ Lydia,’ in Ninth Edition of | Provinces ; Chief Engineer, Burmah; Under

‘Ency. Brit.,’ ‘Assyrian Grammar for Com-

secretary of State Public Works, Memshy, parative Purposes,’ ‘ Translations in Records Cairo, 1883-92 ; author of ‘ Irrigation in Southern of the Past,’ 1st series; ‘ Lectures on the | Europe.’ (C. S. M.)

Assyrian Language and Syllabary,’ ‘Babylonian Literature,’ ‘ Introduction to the Science 1

SCRUTTON, T. E., M.A., K.C. ; Barrister, of Language,’ ‘The Monuments of the Hittites,’ ! Inner Temple; author of ‘Law of Copyright,’ ‘ Fresh Light from the Monuments,’ ‘ The ^ etc. (T. E. S.)

Ancient Empires of the East,’ ‘ Hibbert

SCUDDER, Horace Elisha, Litt.D., the Lectures on Babylonian Religion,’ ‘ The late ; editor of ‘ The Atlantic Monthly,’ 1890-98; Hittites,’ ‘The Races of the Old Testament,’ author of ‘ History of the United States,’ ‘ Book ‘ The Higher Criticism and the Verdict of the of Fables,’ ‘The Life of James Russell Lowell,’ Monuments,’ ‘ The Egypt of the Hebrews etc. (H. E. S*.)

and Herodotus,’ ‘ Early History of the Hebrews.’ (A. H. S.)

SECCOMBE, Thomas, M.A.; assistant editor, ‘ Dictionary of National Biography ’; author of

SCHIDROWITZ, Philip, Ph.D. Berne; ‘ The Age of Johnson,’ etc. etc. (T. Se.)

F.C.S. (Great Britain and Germany); Member of Societies of Chemical Industry and of Public

SEDGWICK, Adam, M.A., F.R.S. ; Fellow Analysts; author (joint) of various papers on and Tutor of Trin. Coll. Cambridge ; Reader of Acids, Wine, Analyses, etc. (P. S.)

Animal Morphology in the University. (A. Se*.)

SCHILLER, F. C. S., M.A. ; Fellow and

SETON-KARR, Henry. M.A., M.P.; Tutor of C.C.C. Oxford. (F. C. S. S.) travelled and shot big game in Western America, British Columbia, and Norway; writer on sport

SCHINDLER, Gen. Sir A. Hontum-, and allied subjects. (H. S.-K.)

C.I.E.; general in the Persian army; has resided, as Persian official, and travelled for

SEWARD, Albert Charles, M.A., F.R.S., many years in Persia; author of ‘ Eastern F.L.S., F.R.G.S. University Lecturer in Persian Irak,’ etc. (A. H.-S.) Botany, Cambridge; Late Fellow of St John’s College; Fellow and Tutor in Natural Science

SCHLICH, William, Ph.D., C.I.E., F.R.S.; at Emmanuel College, Cambridge ; author 6f Professor of Forestry, Cooper’s Hill Coll.; ‘ Fossil Plants as Tests of Climate,’ ‘The Weal

appointed to the Indian Forest Department, den Flora,’ ‘ Fossil Plants for Students of Botany 1866 ; Conservator of Forests, 1871; Inspector

and Geology,’ ‘ The Jurassic Flora,’ also various General of Forests to the Government of India, Botanical papers contributed to scientific 1881; organized the first School of Forestry in journals. (A. 0. Se.)

England at Cooper’s Hill, 1885; author of ‘A Manual of Forestry.’ (W. Son.)

SHADWELL, A., M.D. ; author of ‘ Tallerman Treatment by Superheated Dry Air,’ ‘ The

SCHLOSS, David, M.A. ; author of works on London Water Supply,’ etc. (A. Sn.) labour questions. (D. Sch.) L. L.^ M.A. ; Barrister at-Law, SCHOULER, James, LL.D.; Professor School

SHADWELL, Lincoln’s Inn; revising barrister, Middlesex, of Law, Boston University, and Lecturer at 1885-1902. (L. L. S.) Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore; author of ‘History of the United States under the

SHARP, David, M.A., M.B., C.M., F.R.S.; Constitution ’ and numerous works on Juris

Past President of Entomological Society of prudence. (J. Sch.) London; author of ‘ Aquatic Carnivorous Coleoptera, ‘Insects.’ (D. S*.)

SCHRADER, Franz ; Prix Gay de TAcademie des Sciences; editor of ‘L’Annee Cartogra-

SHARP, Robert Farquharson, B.A.; phique,’ ‘ Le Tour du Monde ’; author of ‘ AperQu Assistant Librarian, British Museum; edited de la Structure Geologique des Pyrenees,’ ‘Lytton’s Plays,’ author of ‘Dictionary of etc. (F. Sch.) English Authors,’ Wagner’s drama, ‘Der Ring des Nibelungen,’ ‘ Translation of Victor Hugo’s

SCHURMAN, Jacob Gould, D.Sc., LL.D.; “Hernani,”’ ‘Makers of Music,’‘Architects of President and sometime Professor of PhiloEnglish Literature.’ (R. F. S.) sophy, Cornell University; Chairman of the U.S. Philippine Commission, 1899; author of

SHAW, Albert, Ph.D.; editor of the American ‘ Kantian Ethics,’ ‘ Ethics of Evolution,’ ‘ Ag‘ Monthly Review of Reviews’; author of ‘ Local nosticism and Religion,’ etc. (J. G. S*.) Government in Illinois,’ ‘ Municipal Government in Great Britain,’ ‘ Municipal Government

SCHURZ, Hon. Carl, LL.D.; Secretary of in Continental Europe,’ etc. (A. Sw.)

the Interior under President Hayes ; author of ‘ Life of Henry Clay,’ ‘ Abraham Lincoln,’

SHAW, Flora L. (Miss) ; special correspon

‘Speeches.’ (C. S.)

dent for ‘ The Times ’ to South Africa and Australia, Canada and Klondike; author of

SCOTT, Austin, Ph.D., LL.D.; President articles on British colonial questions. (F. L. S.) Rutgers College and Rutgers Scientific School, New Jersey. (A. Sc.)

SHAW, Herbert, B.A. ; Secretary of the Tyneside Geographical Society. (H. Sh.)

SCOTT, Dukinfield Henry, M.A., Ph.D., F.R.S.; Honorary Keeper Jodrell Laboratory,

SHAW, Hon. Leslie Mortier, LL.D.; Royal Gardens, Kew; Assistant Professor of Secretary of the U.S. Treasury; formerly Botany, Univ. Coll., London, 1882-85; Royal Governor of the State of Iowa. (L. M. S.) Coll, of Science, London, 1885-92 ; a General

SHAYLOR, J. ; manager to Siinpkin, Marshall, Secretary of the British Association; coand Co. (J. Sh*.) operated with the late Professor W. C. 'Williamson in his ‘Researches on Fossil Plants’; one of

SHEARMAN, Montague ; past President the editors of the ‘Annals of Botany’; author O.U.A.C.: joint-author of ‘Football: Its of ‘An Introduction to Structural Botany,’ History for Five Centuries,’ author of-1 Athletics ‘Studies in Fossil Botany’; author and jointand Football.’ (M. S.)

author of many botanical papers. (D. H. S.)

SHEARMAN, Thomas Gaskell, the late ;

SCOTT, Harold Spencer; Barrister-at-Law, joint-author of ‘Shearman and Redfield on Lincoln’s Inn. (H. S. S.)

Negligence’; author of ‘Natural Taxation,’ ‘Crooked Taxation,’ ‘Distribution of Wealth,’

SCOTT, Sir James George, G.C.I.E.; War ‘The Single Tax,’ etc. (T. G. S.)

Correspondent in Perak, 1875-76 ; Burma, 1879 ; Hong Kong, 1883-85 ; joined Burma Commission

SHERRINGTON, Charles S., M.A., in 1886; member of Anglo-Siamese Boundary M.D., F.R.S. ; Professor of Physiology, Univ. Commission, 1889-90 ; Superintendent Northern Coll. Liverpool; Member of Council of Royal Shan States, 1891; Charge d’Aftaires in Bang- | Society; Late Brown Professor of Pathology, kok, 1893-94; British Commissioner, Mekong ; University of London; Lecturer on Physi

Commission, 1894-96; British Commissioner ology, St Thomas’s Hospital, London ; Croonian Burma-China Boundary Commission, 1898-1900; | Lecturer, Royal Society ; Member of the Com

author of ‘ The Burman, His Life and Notions,’ | mission on Asiatic Cholera, 1886; Anglo

‘France and Tongking,’ ‘Burma,’ ‘The Upper American Secretary, International Congresses Burma Gazetteer.’ (J. G. Sc.) ;

of Physiology, Liege 1892, Berne 1895, Gam-