| C. S. S. | Charles Scott Sherrington, M.A., D.Sc., M.D., F.R.S., LL.D.- Professor of Physiology in the University of Liverpool. Author of The Integrative Action of the Nervous System.
| | Spinal Cord: Physiology. |
| C. W. W. | Sir Charles William Wilson, K.C.B., K.C.M.G., F.R.S. (1856-1907).- Major-General, Royal Engineers. Secretary to the North American Boundary Commission, 1858-1862. British Commissioner on the Servian Boundary Commission. Director-General of the Ordnance Survey, 1886-1894. Director-General of Military Education, 1895-1898. Author of From Korti to Khartoum; Life of Lord Clive; &c.
| | Sivas (in part). |
| D. F. T. | Donald Francis Tovey.- Author of Essays in Musical Analysis; comprising The Classical Concerto, The Goldberg Variations, and analyses of many other Classical works.
| | Sonata Forms; Spohr, Ludwig. |
| D. G. H. | David George Hogarth, M.A.- Keeper of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford. Fellow of the British Academy. Excavated at Paphos, 1888; Naucratis, 1899 and 1903; Ephesus, 1904-1905; Assiut, 1906~1907. Director, British School at Athens, 1897-1900. Director, Cretan Exploration Fund, 1899.
| | Side; Sis; Sivas (in part); Smyrna (in part); Soli (Asia Minor). |
| D. H. | David Hannay.- Formerly British Vice-Consul at Barcelona. Author of Short History of the Royal Navy; Life of Emilio Castelar; &c.
| | Sluys, Battle of; Spain: History (in part); Spanish Succession, War of: Naval and Military Operations; Spinola, Ambrose. |
| D. M. W. | Sir Donald Mackenzie Wallace, K.C.I.E., K.C.V.O.- Extra Groom of the Bedchamber to H.M. King George V. Director of the Foreign Department of The Times, 1891-1899. Member of Institut de Droit International and Officier de l’Instruction Publique of France. Joint-editor of the New Volumes (10th ed.) of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. Author of Russia; Egypt and the Egyptian Question; The Web of Empire; &c.
| | Shuvalov, Count. |
| E. A. | Edward Arber, D.Litt., F.S.A.- See the biographical article: Arber, Edward.
| | Smith, John (1579-1631). |
| E. A. F. | Edward Augustus Freeman, LL.D., D.C.L.- See the biographical article: Freeman, E. A.
| | Sicily: History (in part). |
| E. C. B. | Rt. Rev. Edward Cuthbert Butler, O.S.B., M.A., D.Litt.- Abbot of Downside Abbey, Bath. Author of “The Lausiac History of Palladius” in Cambridge Texts and Studies.
| | Silvestrines; Simeon Stylites, St. |
| E. G. | Edmund Gosse, LL.D.- See the biographical article: Gosse, Edmund.
| | Song (Literary); Stanley, Thomas; Stevenson, Robert Louis; Style. |
| E. H. M. | Ellis Hovell Minns, M.A.- University Lecturer in Palaeography, Cambridge. Lecturer and Assistant Librarian at Pembroke College, Cambridge. Formerly Fellow of Pembroke College.
| | Slavs; Slovaks; Slovenes; Sorbs. |
| Ed. M. | Eduard Meyer, Ph.D., D.Litt., LL.D.- Professor of Ancient History in the University of Berlin. Author of Geschichte des Alterthums; Geschichte des alten Aegyptens; Die Israeliten und ihre Nachbarstämme.
| | Smerdis. |
| E. Ma. | Edward Manson.- Barrister-at-Law. Joint-editor of the Journal of Comparative Legislation. Author of Law of Trading Companies; Practical Guide to Company Law; &c.
| | Stocks and Shares. |
| E. M. S. | Eleanor Mildred Sidgwick (Mrs Henry Sidgwick), D.Litt., LL.D.- Principal of Newnham College, Cambridge, 1892-1910. Hon. Secretary to the Society for Psychical Research. Author of Papers in the Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research.
| | Spiritualism. |
| E. M. T. | Sir Edward Maunde Thompson, G.C.B., I.S.O., D.C.L., Litt.D., LL.D.- Director and Principal Librarian. British Museum, 1898-1909. Sandars Reader in Bibliography, Cambridge University, 1895-1896. Hon. Fellow of University College, Oxford. Author of Handbook of Greek and Latin Palaeography. Editor of the Chronicon Angliae. Joint-editor of publications of the Palaeographical Society the New Palaeographical Society, and of the Facsimile of the Laurentian Sophocles.
| | Stichometry. |
| E. O. | Edmund Owen, F.R.C.S., LL.D., D.Sc.- Consulting Surgeon to St Mary’s Hospital, London, and to the Children’s Hospital, Great Ormond Street, London. Chevalier of the Legion of Honour. Author of A Manual of Anatomy for Senior Students.
| | Skull: Cranial Surgery; Spinal Cord (Surgery); Stomach. |
| E. Pr. | Edgar Prestage.- Special Lecturer in Portuguese Literature in the University of Manchester. Commendador, Portuguese Order of S. Thiago. Corresponding Member of Lisbon Royal Academy of Sciences and Lisbon Geographical Society; &c.
| | Silva, Antonio J. da; Sousa, Luiz de. |
| E. W. H. | Ernest William Hobson, M.A., D.Sc., F.R.S., F.R.A.S.- Fellow and Tutor in Mathematics, Christ’s College, Cambridge. Stokes Lecturer in Mathematics in the University.
| | Spherical Harmonics. |
| F. A. B. | Francis Arthur Bather, M.A., D.Sc., F.R.S., F.R.G.S.- Assistant Keeper of Geology British Museum. Rolleston Prizeman Oxford, 1892. Author of “Echinoderma” in A Treatise on Zoology; Triassic Echinoderms of Bakony; &c.
| | Starfish. |