| L. W. | Lucien Wolf.- Vice-President, formerly President, of the Jewish Historical Society of England. Joint-editor of the Bibliotheca Anglo-judaica.
| | Zionism. |
| M. A. B. | Lady Broome (Mary Anne Broome).- Author of Station Life in New Zealand; Stories About; Colonial Memories; &c.
| | Western Australia: History. |
| M. Be. | Malcolm Bell.- Author of Pewter Plate; Sir E. Burne-Jones: a Record and Review.
| | Watts, George Frederick. |
| M. Br. | Margaret Bryant.-
| | Virgil: The Virgil Legend. |
| M. C. | Rt. Rev. Mandell Creighton, D.C.L., LL.D.- See the biographical article: Creighton, Mandell.
| | Waldenses. |
| M. Ca. | Moritz Cantor, Ph.D.- Honorary Professor of Mathematics in the University of Heidelberg. Hofrat of the German Empire. Author of Vorlesungen über die Geschichte der Mathematik; &c.
| | Vieta, François. |
| 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.
| | Wauters, Emile; Wood-engraving (in part). |
| N. W. T. | Northcote Whitridge Thomas, M.A.- Government Anthropologist to Southern Nigeria. Corresponding Member of the Société d’Anthropologie de Paris. Author of Thought Transference; Kinship and Marriage in Australia; &c.
| | Week; Werwolf (in part); Witchcraft. |
| P. A. K. | Prince Peter Alexeivitch Kropotkin.- See the biographical article: Kropotkin, Prince P. A.
| | Vladimir: Government (in part); Volga (in part); Vologda: Government (in part); Vyatka: Government (in part); Warsaw: Poland (in part); Yakutsk (in part); Yeniseisk (in part). |
| P. C. M. | Peter Chalmers Mitchell, M.A., D.Sc., LL.D., F.Z.S., F.R.S.- 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.
| | Zoological Gardens; Zoological Nomenclature. |
| 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.
| | W. X. Y. Z. |
| P. G. H. | Philip Gilbert Hamerton.- See the biographical article: Hamerton, Philip Gilbert.
| | Wauters, Emile; Wood-engraving (in part). |
| 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.
| | Watteau, Antoine. |
| P. S. | Philip Schidrowitz, Ph.D., F.C.S.- Member of the Council, Institute of Brewing; Member of the Committee of the Society of Chemical Industry. Author of numerous articles on the Chemistry and Technology of Brewing, Distilling; &c.
| | Whisky; Wine. |
| P. Vi. | Paul Vinogradoff, D.C.L., LL.D.- See the biographical article: Vinogradoff, Paul.
| | Village Communities; Villenage. |
| R. A. W. | Colonel Robert Alexander Wahab, C.B., C.M.G.j 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.
| | Yemen. |
| R. C. D. | Romesh Chunder Dutt, C.I.E. (1848-1909).- Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature; Member of the Royal Asiatic Society. Barrister-at-Law, Middle Temple. Formerly Revenue Minister of Baroda State, and Prime Minister of Baroda State. Author of Economic History of India in the Victorian Age, 1837-1900; &c.
| | Vidyasagar, Iswar Chandra. |
| R. G. | Richard Garnett, LL.D.- See the biographical article: Garnett, Richard.
| | Wakefield, Edward Gibbon. |
| R. G. M. | Reginald Godfrey Marsden.- Barrister-at-Law, Inner Temple.
| | Wreck (in part). |
| R. He. | Sir Reginald Hennell, D.S.O., C.V.O.- Colonel in the Indian Army (retired). Lieutenant of the King’s Body-Guard of the Yeomen of the Guard. Served in the Abyssinian Expedition, 1867-68; Afghani War, 1879-80; Burmah Campaign, 1886-87. Author of History of the Yeomen of the Guard, 1485-1904; &c.
| | Yeomen of the Guard. |
| R. J. M. | Ronald John McNeill, M.A.- Christ Church, Oxford. Barrister-at-Law, Lincoln’s Inn. Formerly Editor of the St James’s Gazette (London).
| | Wentworth (Family). |