guarantee that the work will represent the results of the latest discoveries in every department 

 of research. It will be observed that among them are representatives of science ; for the 

 whole trend of modern thought, as influenced by the theory of evolution, favours the intelli- 

 gent study of the past and of the social, institutional and political developments of national 

 life. As these histories are the first in which this object has been kept in view, and modern 

 principles applied, it is hoped that they will form a work of reference no less indispensable 

 to the student than welcome to the man of culture. 



Family History will, both in the Histories and in the supplemental volumes of chart 

 pedigrees, be dealt with by genealogical experts and in the modern spirit. Every effort will be 

 made to secure accuracy of statement, and to avoid the insertion of those legendary pedigrees 

 which have in the past brought discredit on the whole subject. It has been pointed out by the 

 late Bishop of Oxford, a great master of historical research, that ' the expansion and extension 

 of genealogical study is a very remarkable feature of our own times,' that ' it is an increasing 

 pursuit both in America and England,' and that it can render the historian useful service. 



Heraldry will also in this Series occupy a prominent position, and the splendours of the 

 coat-armour borne in the Middle Ages will be illustrated in colours on a scale that has never 

 been attempted before. 



The general plan of Contents, and the names of the Sectional Editors (who will 

 co-operate with local workers in every case) are as follows : — 



Natural History. Edited by Aobyn B. R. Trevob-Battye, M.A., F.L.S., etc. 



Geology. By Clement Reid, F.R.S., Horace B. Woodward, F.R.S., and others 

 Palaeontology. Edited by R. L. Lydekker, F.R.S., etc. 



(Contributions by G. A. Boulenger, F.R.S., F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, M.A., H. N. Dixon, F.L.S., 

 G. C. Dbuce, M.A., F.L.S., Walter Garstang, M.A., F.L.S., Herbert Goss, F.L.S., F.E.S., 

 R. I. Pocock.Rev. T.R. R. Stebbing, M.A., F.R.S., etc., B.B.Woodward, F.G.S., F.R.M.S., 

 etc., and other Specialists 

 Prehistoric Remains. Edited by W. Boyd Dawkins, M.A., F.R.S., F.S.A. 

 Roman Remains. Edited by F. Haverfield, M.A., F.S.A. 



Anglo-Saxon Remains. Edited by C. Hercules Read, F.S.A., and Reginald A. Smith, B.A. 

 Ethnography. Edited by G. Laurence Gomme, F.S.A. 



Dialect. Edited by Joseph Wright, M.A., Ph.D. 



Place Names \ 



Folklore y Contributed by Various Authorities 



Physical Types ) 

 Domesday Book and other kindred Records. Edited by J. Horace Round, M.A. 

 Architecture. By Various Authorities. The Sections on the Cathedrals and Monastic Remains Edited by 



W. H. St. John Hope, M.A. 

 Ecclesiastical History. Edited by R. L. Poole, M.A. 

 Political History. Edited by W. H. Stevenson, M.A., J. Horace Round, M.A., Prof. T. F. Tout, M.A., 



James Tait, M.A., and C. H. Firth, M.A. 

 History of Schools. Edited by A. F. Leach, M.A., F.S.A. 

 Maritime History of Coast Counties. Edited by J. K. Laughton, M.A. 

 Topographical Accounts of Parishes and Manors. By Various Authorities 



History of the Feudal Baronage. Edited by J. Horace Round, M.A., and Oswald Barron, F.S.A. 

 Family History and Heraldry. Edited by Oswald Barron, F.S.A. 



Agriculture. Edited by Sir Ernest Clarke, M.A., Sec. to the Royal Agricultural Society 

 Forestry. Edited by John Nisbet, D.Oec. 

 Industries, Arts and Manufactures ^ 



Social and Economic History > By Various Authorities 



Persons Eminent in Art, Literature, Science J 

 Ancient and Modern Sport. Edited by the Duke of Beaufort 



Hunting "j 



Shooting >- By Various Authorities 



Fishing, etc. J 



Cricket. Edited by Home Gordon 



Football. Edited by C. W. Alcock 

 Bibliographies 

 Indexes 

 Names of the Subscribers 



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