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adopted by the Royal Geographical Society. ForDutch personal names the spelling of the Bio-graphisch Woordenboek der Nederlanden{ Haarlem,1852, 21 vols.) has been taken as the standard.The spelling of Danish personal names has beenmade to accord with that of the Dansk BiograftskLexikon , by C. F. Bricka (Copenhagen, only 9 vols.published as yet). For Swedish personal namesthe guide has been Biograftskt Lexikon dfver Namn-kunnige Svenske Man (Stockholm, 1874, 23 vols.and 9 supplementary vols.). Where it has seemednecessary the spelling of the Dictionary of NationalBiography has been followed in the case of thenames of British subjects mentioned in the MS.

For the division of the MS. into sections, andfor the headings to these, the Editor is responsible.He has to thank his old messmate Professor J. K.Laughton for much freely rendered assistance.