| A. R. L.* | Arthur Robert Ling, F.I.C.- Editor of the Journal of the Institute of Brewing. Lecturer on Brewing and Malting at the Sir John Cass Institute, London. Vice-President of the Society of Chemical Industry.
|  | Malt. |
| A. Sl. | Arthur Shadwell, M.A., M.D., LL.D.- Member of Council of Epidemiological Society. Author of The London Water-Supply; Industrial Efficiency; Drink, Temperance and Legislation.
|  | Malaria (in part); Massage. |
| A. Sy. | Arthur Symons.- See the biographical article: Symons, Arthur.
|  | Mallarmé, Stéphane. |
| A. Wa. | Arthur Waugh, M.A.- Managing Director of Chapman & Hall, Ltd., Publishers. Formerly Literary Adviser to Kegan Paul & Co. Author of Alfred Lord Tennyson; Legends of the Wheel; Robert Browning in “Westminster Biographies.” Editor of Johnson’s Lives of the Poets.
|  | Lytton, 1st Baron. |
| A. W. H.* | Arthur William Holland.- Formerly Scholar of St John’s College, Oxford. Bacon Scholar of Gray’s Inn, 1900.
|  | Louis I., II., III. and IV.: Roman Emperors; Louis the German; Louis II. and III. of France; Louis the Child; Magna Carta; Maximilian I.: Roman Emperor. |
| A. W. Hu. | Rev. Arthur Wollaston Hutton, M.A.- Rector of Bow Church, London. Formerly Librarian of the National Liberal Club. Author of Life of Cardinal Manning; &c.
|  | Manning, Cardinal. |
| A. W. M. | Arthur William Moore, C.V.O., M.A. (1853–1909).- Trinity College, Cambridge. Formerly Speaker of the House of Keys, and J.P. for the Isle of Man. Author of A History of the Isle of Man; &c.
|  | Man, Isle of. |
| A. W. R. | Alexander Wood Renton, M.A., LL.B.- Puisne Judge of the Supreme Court of Ceylon. Editor of Encyclopaedia of the Laws of England.
|  | Maxims, Legal. |
| B. W. | Benjamin Williamson, M.A., D.Sc., F.R.S.- Professor of Natural Philosophy, and Vice-Provost of Trinity College, Dublin. Author of Differential Calculus; &c.
|  | Maclaurin, Colin. |
| C. A. M. F. | Charles Augustus Maude Fennell, M.A., Litt.D.- Formerly Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge. Editor of Pindar’s Odes and Fragments, and of the Stanford Dictionary of Anglicized Words and Phrases.
|  | Magic Square (in part). |
| C. B. P. | Catherine Beatrice Phillips, B.A. (Mrs W. Alison Phillips).- Associate of Bedford College, London.
|  | Louis XVIII. of France; Marie Antoinette. |
| C. Ch. | Charles Chree, M.A., LL.D., D.Sc., F.R.S.- Superintendent, Kew Observatory. Formerly Fellow of King’s College, Cambridge. President of Physical Society of London. Watt Medallist, Institute of Civil Engineers, 1905.
|  | Magnetism, Terrestrial. |
| C. F. A. | Charles Francis Atkinson.- Formerly Scholar of Queen’s College, Oxford. Captain, 1st City of London (Royal Fusiliers). Author of The Wilderness and Cold Harbour.
|  | Machine-Gun. |
| C. F. Cl. | Charles Frederick Close, C.M.G.- Lieutenant-Colonel, R.E. Head of the Geographical Section, British General Staff. Formerly British Representative on the Nyasa-Tanganyika Boundary Commission. Author of Text-Book of Topographical Surveying; &c.,
|  | Map: Projections (in part). |
| C. G. Cr. | Charles George Crump, M.A.- Balliol College, Oxford. Clerk in H.M. Public Record Office, London. Editor of Landor’s Works; &c.
|  | Manor: in England. |
| C. H. Ha. | Carlton Huntley Hayes, A.M., Ph.D.- Assistant Professor of History in Columbia University, New York City. Member of the American Historical Association.
|  | Matilda, Countess of Tuscany; Lucius. |
| C. L. K. | Charles Lethbridge Kingsford, M.A., F.R.Hist.S., F.S.A.- Assistant Secretary to the Board of Education. Author of Life of Henry V. Editor of Chronicles of London and Stow’s Survey of London.
|  | Lovell, Viscount; Margaret of Anjou. |
| C. M. | Carl Theodor Mirbt, D.Th.- Professor of Church History in the University of Marburg. Author of Publizistik im Zeitalter Gregor VII.; Quellen zur Geschichte des Papstthums; &c.
|  | Lyons, Councils of; Marburg, Colloquy of. |
| C. Pf. | Christian Pfister, D. ès L.- Professor at the Sorbonne, Paris. Chevalier of the Legion of Honour. Author of Études sur le règne de Robert le Pieux.
|  | Mayor of the Palace. |
| C. R. B. | Charles Raymond Beazley, M.A., D.Litt.- Professor of Modern History in the University of Birmingham. Formerly Fellow of Merton College, Oxford. University Lecturer in the History of Geography. Author of Henry the Navigator; The Dawn of Modern Geography; &c.
|  | Magellan; Marignolli (in part). |
| D. B. Ma. | Duncan Black Macdonald, M.A., D.D.- Professor of Semitic Languages, Hartford Theological Seminary, U.S.A. Author of Development of Muslim Theology, Jurisprudence and Constitutional Theory; Religious Attitude and Life in Islam; &c.
|  | Mahommedan Institutions; Mahommedan Law; Malik Ibn Anas. |