Cambridge University financed a multidisciplinary expedition to the Torres Strait Islands in 1898, organized by Alfred Court Haddon and including a physician-anthropologist, William Rivers, as well as a linguist, a botanist, and other specialists.

* Sir William Vernon Harcourt 1894 – 1898

The one who did the most to help Peirce in these desperate times was his old friend William James, dedicating his Will to Believe ( 1897 ) to Peirce, and arranging for Peirce to be paid to give two series of lectures at or near Harvard ( 1898 and 1903 ).

* Jerome Cardan, a Biographical Study, 1898, by William George Waters, from Project Gutenberg

However, Michael Montgomery, in From Ulster to America: The Scotch-Irish Heritage of American English, states " In Ulster in recent years it has sometimes been supposed that it was coined to refer to followers of King William III and brought to America by early Ulster emigrants …, but this derivation is almost certainly incorrect … In America hillbilly was first attested only in 1898, which suggests a later, independent development.

* 1898 – U. S. President William McKinley signs the Newlands Resolution annexing Hawaii as a territory of the United States.

Neon ( Greek ( neon ) meaning " new one ") was discovered in 1898 by the British chemists Sir William Ramsay ( 1852 – 1916 ) and Morris W. Travers ( 1872 – 1961 ) in London.

According to Stephen Kinzer's 2006 book Overthrow, in 1898 the chief of the French Canal Syndicate ( a group that owned large swathes of land across Panama ), Philippe Bunau Varilla, hired William Nelson Cromwell to lobby the U. S. Congress for the Panama Canal.

* 1898 – William O. Douglas, American jurist ( d. 1980 )

Paul Robeson was born in Princeton in 1898, to Reverend William Drew Robeson and Maria Louisa Bustill.

* An Almanac of Twelve Sports ( 1898, with illustrations by William Nicholson )

The Yellow Kid was the name of a lead comic strip character that ran from 1895 to 1898 in Joseph Pulitzer's New York World, and later William Randolph Hearst's New York Journal.

William Ewart Gladstone ( 1809 – 1898 ) was the Liberal counterpart to Disraeli, serving as prime minister four times ( 1868 – 74, 1880 – 85, 1886, and 1892 – 94 ).

In 1900, President William McKinley appointed Taft chairman of a commission to organize a civilian government in the Philippines which had been ceded to the United States by Spain following the Spanish – American War and the 1898 Treaty of Paris.

William Seward Burroughs I ( January 28, 1857 – September 14, 1898 ) was an American inventor born in Rochester, New York.

William Ewart Gladstone, FRS, FSS ( 29 December 1809 – 19 May 1898 ) was a British Liberal statesman.

The death of William Ewart Gladstone was registered by Helen Gladstone, his daughter, " present at the death ", on 23 May 1898.

* Matthew, H. C. G. " Gladstone, William Ewart ( 1809 – 1898 )", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, ( 2004 ; online edition May 2006

* December 29 – William Ewart Gladstone, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom ( d. 1898 )

* January 28 – William Seward Burroughs, American bank clerk and inventor ( d. 1898 )

* William Ewart Gladstone ( 1809 – 1898 ) 1859 – 1859

In this image taken by William O. Owen in 1898, his climbing partners John Shive, Franklin Spalding, and Frank Petersen are depicted on top of Grand Teton.

The first ascent of Grand Teton that is substantiated was made by William O. Owen, Frank Petersen, John Shive and Franklin Spencer Spalding on August 11, 1898.

* 1898 William Ramsay and Morris Travers discover neon, and negatively charged beta particles

Also, William Pember Reeves used ' Aotearoa ' to mean New Zealand in his history of New Zealand published in 1898, titled The Long White Cloud Ao-tea-roa.

" In a speech given to the Norwegian Women's Rights League in 1898, Ibsen insisted that he " must disclaim the honor of having consciously worked for the women's rights movement ," since he wrote " without any conscious thought of making propaganda ," his task having been " the description of humanity.

He also wrote St Thomas of Canterbury, his Death and Miracles ( 1898 ), Johannine Vocabulary ( 1905 ), Johannine Grammar ( 1906 ).

Abbott also wrote educational text books, one being " Via Latina: First Latin Book " which was published in 1898 and distributed around the world within the education system.

As historian John Gable wrote, " In later years Roosevelt would describe the Battle of San Juan Hill on July 1, 1898, as ' the great day of my life ' and ' my crowded hour .'....

Zachris Topelius (; 14 January 1818 – 12 March 1898 ) was a Swedish-speaking Finnish author, journalist, historian, and rector of the University of Helsinki who wrote novels related to Finnish history in Swedish.

Late in the century, Gustav Mahler wrote his early Das klagende Lied on his own words, between 1878 and 1880, and Samuel Coleridge-Taylor created a successful trilogy of cantatas The Song of Hiawatha between 1898 and 1900.

The London-based newspaper Daily Graphic wrote in an article on 22 August 1898, " The avalanche of brutality which, under the name of ' Hooliganism ' ... has cast such a dire slur on the social records of South London ".

The influential writer Émile Zola wrote a famous open letter titled " J ' accuse " ( " I accuse " ) published in the newspaper L ' Aurore on 13 January 1898.

John Griswold White wrote in 1898, " He did not even make good use of the material known to him.

In 1898, Münsterberg wrote a controversial article entitled " The Danger from Experimental Psychology " in which he claims the impossible transfer of experimental results into successful teaching practices.

Root was concerned about the Army's role in governing the new territories acquired in 1898 and worked out the procedures for turning Cuba over to the Cubans, and wrote the charter of government for the Philippines.

While Hardy wrote poetry throughout his life, and regarded himself primarily as a poet, his first collection was not published until 1898, so that initially he gained fame as the author of such novels as, Far from the Madding Crowd ( 1874 ), The Mayor of Casterbridge ( 1886 ), Tess of the d ' Urbervilles ( 1891 ), and Jude the Obscure ( 1895 ).

He wrote his first play " Les Aubes " in 1898.

He also wrote a biography of the Scottish poet, Robert Fergusson ( Edinburgh: Oliphant, Anderson and Ferrier, 1898 )

Buckingham wrote occasional verses, pamphlets, lampoons, satires and plays showing undoubted ( but undeveloped ) poetic gifts, a collection of which, containing however many pieces not from his pen, was first published by Tom Brown in 1704 ; while a few extracts from a commonplace book of Buckingham of some interest are given in an article in the Quarterly Review of January 1898.

The psychoanalyst Richard Sterba ( 1898 – 1989 ) wrote that Reich was a brilliant clinician during the 1920s.

In 1868, he wrote Le Grand Arcane, ou l ' Occultisme Dévoilé (" The Great Secret, or Occultism Unveiled "); this, however, was only published posthumously in 1898.

He wrote an important book on the Formation de la Prusse contemporaine ( 2 vols., 1891 – 1898 ), dealing with the events of 1806 – 1813.

In 1868, he wrote Le Grand Arcane, ou l ' Occultisme Dévoilé ( The Great Secret, or Occultism Unveiled ); this, however, was only published posthumously in 1898.

During the years 1898 – 1904 Korczak studied medicine at the University of Warsaw and also wrote for several Polish language newspapers.

The buddhist leader Anagarika Dharmapala in his work Daily Code for the Laity in 1898 wrote that a sari blouse must be long covering fully the women's breasts, midriff, navel and back.

Laureano Fuentes ( 1825 – 1898 ) came from a family of musicians and wrote the first opera to be composed on the island, La hija de Jefté ( Jefte's daughter ).

The following year, he wrote the screenplay for the film The Devil is a Woman, starring Marlene Dietrich and directed by Josef von Sternberg, adapted from the 1898 novel La Femme et le pantin by Pierre Louÿs.

At this period of his life he wrote Grégoire de Tours et Marius d ' Avenche ( 1872 ); Frédégaire, whose history, taken from original manuscripts, he published in 1885 ; a translation of a book of W. Junghans, Histoire critique des règnes de Childerich et de Chlodovech, with introduction and notes ( 1879 ); Études critiques sur les sources de l ' histoire carolingienne ( 1898, 1st part only published ); and Bibliographie de l ' histoire de France ( 1888 ).

She also wrote The Last Touches and Other Stories ( 1892 ) and Mere Stories ( 1896 ); and a play, A Woman Alone ( 1898 ).