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 and it is cause for deep regret that they did not live to witness its completion.

The occasional contributors, who are larger numerically than the regular contributors, although their contributions cover a smaller area, include distinguished experts in every branch of knowledge, and they have usefully supplemented the labours of the regular contributors by undertaking memoirs to the preparation of which they brought peculiarly apposite experience. The following is a list of some of the more interesting and valuable articles due to occasional contributors: Six of these writers, whose names are here marked with an asterisk, have died since the cited articles were prepared. Of these contributors a memoir of Professor Tyndall is given in Vol. LVII. of the Dictionary. Notices of the other five deceased contributors who are mentioned in the above list will appear in the Supplement to the Dictionary. The following occasional contributors who died while the work was in progress are already noticed in volumes issued subsequently to the dates of their deaths:— Octavian Blewitt (d. 1884), Dutton Cook (d. 1883), Mrs. Anne Gilchrist (d. 1885), Robert Hunt, F.R.S. (d. 1887), Westland Marston (d. 1890), F. R. Oliphant (d. 1894), Wyatt Papworth (d. 1894), George Groom Robertson (d. 1892), Dr. Hack Tuke (d. 1896), Henri van Laun (d. 1896), Cornelius Walford (d. 1885), Edward Walford (d. 1897), and John Ward, C.B. (d. 1890). The Supplement will include the following names of occasional contributors, in addition to those already indicated, who have died during the progress of the work: Grant Allen (d. 1899), Sheldon Amos (d. 1886), John Eglinton Bailey (d. 1888), Professor W. G. Blaikie (d. 1899), Wilkie Collins (d. 1889), the Rev. Canon Dixon (d. 1900), J. P. Earwaker (d. 1895), Arthur Locker (d. 1893), Professor John Nichol (d. 1894), John Ormsby (d. 1895), the Rev. Canon Perry (d. 1897), and the Rev. Nicholas Pocock (d. 1897).

The Rev. Canon Ainger on and. Mr. Robert Boyle on. Sir Frederick Bramwell, Bart., F.R.S., on the engineer. Professor A. H. Church, F.R.S., on. The Rev. Andrew Clark on. Mr. Sidney Colvin on, , and. Mr. Francis Darwin, F.R.S., on. *Sir William Flower, F.R.S. (d. 1899), on Sir. Sir Michael Foster, K.C.B., on. *Professor E. A. Freeman (d. 1892) on. The Very Rev. the Hon. W. H. Fremantle, Dean of Ripon, on Archbishop. The Right Hon. Sir Edward Fry on. Mr. R. T. Glazebrook, F.R.S., on Sir. Mr. Edmund Gosse, LL.D., on. Professor J. W. Hales on. Professor C. H. Herford on and. Mr. Henry Higgs on. *The Rev. Professor Hort (d. 1892) on Bishop.