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SIR CHARLES WILLIAM WILSON, K.C.B., K.C.M.G., F.R.S. (1836-1907).

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.

Hierapolis (_in part_).

D. B. M.
DAVID BINNING MONRO, M.A., LITT.D.

See the biographical article, MONRO, DAVID BINNING.

Homer.

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.

Harmony.

D. Gi.
SIR DAVID GILL, K.C.B., LL.D., F.R.S., F.R.A.S., D.SC.

H.M. Astronomer at Cape of Good Hope, 1879-1907. Served in
Geodetic Survey of Egypt, and on the expedition to Ascension
Island to determine the Solar Parallax by observations of Mars.
Directed Geodetic Survey of Natal, Cape Colony and Rhodesia.
Author of _Geodetic Survey of South Africa_; _Catalogues of Stars
for the Equinoxes_ (1850, 1860, 1885, 1890, 1900); &c.

Heliometer.

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.

Heraclea (_in part_);
Hierapolis (_in part_);
Hittites.

D. H.
DAVID HANNAY.

Formerly British Vice-Consul at Barcelona. Author of _Short
History of the Royal Navy_; _Life of Emilio Castelar_; &c.

Heyn;
Hood, Viscount;
Howe, Earl;
Humour.

D. Mn.
REV. DUGALD MACFADYEN, M.A.

Minister of South Grove Congregational Church, Highgate. Author of
_Constructive Congregational Ideals_; &c.

Henderson, Alexander (_in part_).

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