| L. J. S. | Leonard James Spencer, M.A. .- Assistant in Department of Mineralogy, British Museum. Formerly Scholar of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, and Harkness Scholar. Editor of the Mineralogical Magazine.
| | Muscovite; Nepheline; Niccolite. |
| L. R. F. | Lewis Richard Farnell, M.A., Litt.D.- Fellow and Senior Tutor of Exeter College, Oxford. University Lecturer in Classical Archaeology; Wilde Lecturer in Comparative Religion. Corresponding Member of Imperial German Archaeological Institute. Author of Evolution of Religion; &c.
| | Mystery. |
| L. V.* | Luigi Villari.- Italian Foreign Office (Emigration Dept.). Formerly Newspaper Correspondent in East of Europe. Italian Vice-Consul in New Orleans, 1906, Philadelphia, 1907, Boston, U.S.A., 1907-1910. Author of Italian Life in Town and Country; &c.
| | Naples, Kingdom of. |
| L. W. K. | Leonard William King, M.A., F.S.A.- King’s College, Cambridge. Assistant in Department of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities, British Museum; Lecturer in Assyrian at King’s College and London University. Author of The Seven Tablets of Creation; &c.
| | Nippur: The Deluge Fragment. |
| M. Ja. | Morris Jastrow, Ph.D.- Professor of Semitic Languages, University of Pennsylvania. Author of Religion of the Babylonians and Assyrians; &c.
| | Nebo; Nergal; Ninib; Nusku; Oannes. |
| M. N. T. | Marcus Niebuhr Tod, M.A.- Fellow and Tutor of Oriel College. Oxford. University Lecturer in Epigraphy. Joint-author of Catalogue of the Sparta Museum.
| | Nauarchia. |
| N. | The Rt. Hon. Lord Northcliffe.- Founder of the Daily Mail; Chief Proprietor of The Times, and other papers and periodicals. Chairman of the Associated Newspapers, Ltd., and the Amalgamated Press, Ltd.
| | Newspapers: Price of Newspapers. |
| N. D. M. | Newton Dennison Mereness, A.M., Ph.D.- Author of Maryland as a Proprietary Province.
| | New York (in part). |
| O. J. R. H. | Osbert John Radcliffe Howarth, M.A.- Christ Church, Oxford. Geographical Scholar, 1901. Assistant Secretary of the British Association.
| | Norway: Geography and Statistics. |
| O. K. | Otto Krümmel, Ph.D.- Professor of Geography in the University of Kiel, and Lecturer in the Imperial Navai Academy. Author of Handbuch der Ozeanographie, &c.
| | Ocean and Oceanography (in part). |
| P. A. K. | Prince Peter Alexeivitch Kropotkin.- See the biographical article: Kropotkin, Prince P. A.
| | New Siberia Archipelago; Nikolayev (in part); Nizhniy-Novgorod (in part); Novgorod (in part). |
| P. G. | Percy Gardner, LL.D., Litt.D., F.S.A.- See the biographical article; GARDNER, PERCY.
| | Myron. |
| P. Gi. | Peter Giles, M.A., LL.D., Litt.D.- Fellow and Classical Lecturer of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and University -Reader in Comparative Philology. Formerly Secretary of the Cambridge Philological Society. Author of Manual of Comparative Philology.
| | N; O. |
| P. G. K. | Paul George Konody.- Art Critic of the Observer and the Daily Mail. Formerly Editor of The Artist. Author of The Art of Walter Crane; Velasquez, Life and Work; &c.
| | Neer, Van der (in part). |
| P. La. | Philip Lake, M.A., F.G.S.- Lecturer on Physical and Regional Geography in Cambridge University. Formerly of the Geological Survey of India. Author of Monograph of British Cambrian Trilobites. Translator and Editor of Keyser’s Comparative Geology.
| | Norway: Physical Geography. |
| R. A. W. | Robert Alexander Wahab, C.B., C.M.G., C.I.E.- Colonel, Royal Engineers. Formerly H.M. Commissioner, Aden Boundary Delimitation, and Superintendent, Survey of India. Served with Tirah Expeditionary Force, 1897-1898; Anglo-Russian Boundary Commission, Pamirs, 1895; &c.
| | Nejd. |
| R. C. T. | Sir Richard Carnac Temple, Bart., C.I.E.- Lieut.-Colonel. Formerly Chief Commissioner, Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Hon. Fellow of Trinity Hall, Cambridge. Joint-author of Andamanese Language; &c.
| | Nicobar Islands. |
| R. G. | Richard Garnett, LL.D., D.C.L.- See the biographical article: Garnett, Richard.
| | Newman, Francis William; Newton, Sir C. T. |
| R. J. M. | Ronald John Macneill, M.A.- Christ Church, Oxford. Barrister-at-Law. Formerly Editor of the St James’s Gazette, London.
| | Murray, Lord George. |
| R. L.* | Richard Lydekker, M.A., F.R.S., F.G.S., F.Z.S.- Member of the Staff of the Geological Survey of India, 1874-1882. Author of Catalogue of Fossil Mammals, Reptiles and Birds in British Museum; The Deer of All Lands; The Game Animals of Africa; &c.
| | Muntjac; Musk Ox; Mylodon. |
| R. La. | Robert Latouche.- Archivist of the department of Tarn et Garonne. Author of Histoire du comté du Maine au X. et au XI. siècle.
| | Normandy. |