| M. Be. | Malcolm Bell.- Author of Pewter Plate; &c.
| | Sheffield Plate. |
| M. Bt. | Michael Brett.- Barrister-at-Law, Middle Temple.
| | Salvage: Military. |
| 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 the Home Department, London, and First Parliamentary Counsel to the Treasury. Author of Digest of the Law of Bills of Exchange; &c.
| | Sale of Goods. |
| M. Ha. | Marcus Hartog, M.A., D.Sc., F.L.S.- Professor of Zoology, University College, Cork. Author of “Protozoa,” in the Cambridge Natural History; and papers for various scientific journals.
| | Sarcodina. |
| M. H. S. | Marion H. Spielmann, F.S.A.- Formerly Editor of the Magazine of Art. Member of Fine Art Committee of International Exhibitions of Brussels, Paris, Buenos Aires, Rome and the Franco-British Exhibition, London. Author of History of “Punch”; British Portrait Painting to the Opening of the 19th Century; Works of G. F. Watts, R.A.; British Sculpture and Sculptors of To-Day; Henriette Ronner; &c.
| | Sculpture (in part); Shakespeare: Portraits. |
| M. Ja. | Morris Jastrow, Ph.D.- Professor of Semitic Languages, University of Pennsylvania. Author of Religion of the Babylonians and Assyrians; &c.
| | Shamash. |
| M. O. B. C. | Maximilian Otto Bismarck Caspari, M.A.- Reader in Ancient History in London University. Lecturer in Greek in Birmingham University, 1905-1908.
| | Salamis; Samos (in part). |
| 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-Comté.
| | St Nectaire; St Pol, Counts of. |
| M. T. H. | M. Th. Houtsma.- Professor of Semitic Languages in the University of Utrecht.
| | Seljūks. |
| O. A. | Osmund Airy, M.A., LL.D.- H.M Inspector of Schools and Inspector of Training Colleges, Board of Education, London. Author of Louis XIV. and the English Restoration; Charles II.; &c. Editor of the Lauderdale Papers; &c.
| | Shaftesbury, 1st Earl of. |
| P. A. K. | Prince Peter Alexeivitch Kropotkin.- See the biographical article: Kropotkin, Prince P. A.
| | St Petersburg (in part); Sakhalin (in part); Samara: Government (in part); Samarkand: City (in part); Saratov: Government (in part). |
| P. C. M. | Peter Chalmers Mitchell, M.A., F.R.S., F.Z.S., D.Sc., LL.D.- Secretary of the Zoological Society of London. University Demonstrator in Comparative Anatomy and Assistant to Linacre Professor at Oxford, 1888-1891. Author of Outlines of Biology; &c.
| | Sex. |
| P. G. | Percy Gardner, LL.D., F.S.A., D.Litt.- See the biographical article: Gardner, Percy.
| | Scopas. |
| 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; Velasguez, Life and Work; &c.
| | Sculpture (in part). |
| P. St. | Percy Somers Tyringham Stephens, J.P.- Contributor to the Badminton Magazine.
| | Shooting. |
| P. Vi. | Paul Vinogradoff, D.C.L., LL.D.- See the biographical article: Vinogradoff, Paul.
| | Serfdom. |
| P. Wa. | Sir Philip Watts, K.C.B., F.R.S., LL.D.- Director of Naval Construction for the British Navy. Chairman of the Federation of Shipbuilders. Naval Architect and Director of War Shipbuilding Department of Sir W. G. Armstrong, Whitworth & Co., Ltd., 1885-1901.
| | Ship: History since the Invention of Steamships; Shipbuilding. |
| R. Ad. | Robert Adamson, LL.D.- See the biographical article: Adamson, Robert.
| | Schelling (in part). |
| R. A. S. M. | Robert Alexander Stewart Macalister, M.A., F.S.A.- St John’s College, Cambridge. Director of Excavations for the Palestine Exploration Fund.
| | Samaria; Shechem. |
| R. A. W. | Colonel Robert Alexander Wahab, C.B., C.M.G., C.I.E.- Formerly H.M. Commissioner, Aden Boundary Delimitation. Served with Tirah Expeditionary Force, 1897-1898, and on the Anglo-Russian Boundary Commission, Pamirs, 1895.
| | Sana. |
| R. C. C. | Richard Copley Christie.- See the biographical article: Christie, Richard Copley.
| | Scaliger (in part). |
| R. D. H. | Robert Drew Hicks, M.A.- Fellow, formerly Lecturer in Classics, Trinity College, Cambridge.
| | Seneca (in part). |
| R. G. | Richard Garnett, LL.D.- See the biographical article: Garnett, Richard.
| | Sarpi, Paolo; Satire. |
| R. I. P. | Reginald Innes Pocock, F.Z.S.- Superintendent of the Zoological Gardens, London.
| | Scorpion. |