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MAUCHBERG, mountain, South Africa,

xxni. 517.

MAUDUYT, R. J. E., on birds, xvm. 7. MAUGIS D AlGREMONT, romance, XX.

653-

MAUI, island, Hawaiian group, XL 532. MAULAWI, dancing dervishes, xxi. 59. MAULE, province, Chili, v. 617. MAULEON, town, France, xx. 127. MAULMAIN, town, British Burmah, XV.

635. MAUMEE BAY, Lake Erie, North

America, xxni.~436. MAUNA (Tutuila), island, South Pacific,

xvn. 279.

KILAUEA, volcano, Hawaii, XL 531.

MAUNCH, in heraldry, XL 703. MAUNDY THURSDAY, xv. 635; peni tential office of, xvin. 487. MAUPERTUIS, Peter Louis Moreau de,

.French mathematician, xv. 636; ix.

671; measures arc of meridian, VII.

598; Voltaire s dispute with, xxiv.

289.

MAU RANIPUR, town, India, xv. 636. MAUREPAS, Comte de, French statesman,

ix. 594.

, Lake, Louisiana, U.S.A., xv. 20.

MAURER, Georg Ludwig von, German

jurist, XV. 636.

MAURES, mountains, France, xxiv. 68. MAURETANIA, ancient country, North

Africa, XV. 636. TlNGITAN A, ancient country, Africa,

xvi. 834. MAURI, people of Mauretania, Africa,

xv. 637. MAURICE (Mauricius), St, martyr, xv.

637.

(Mauricius Flavius Tiberius), emperor of the East, xv. 637.

(of Nassau), prince of Orange,

stadtholder of Holland, xv. 638; xn. 77; his antagonism to Barneveldt, ill.

379-

, elector of Saxony, xv. 638; xxi. 354; his influence on France, IX. 559; his policy towards Charles V., v. 416.

, John Frederic Denison, English

divine, xv. 638; as Christian socialist,

XXII. 210.

MAURIENNE, district, France, xxi. 332. MAURITANIA (Mauretania), ancient

country, North Africa, XV. 636. MAURITIA, genus of palms, xvin. 190. MAURITIUS, island, Indian Ocean, xv.

639; I. 272; remains of dodo found

in, vn. 321; forests, IX. 408; railways,

XX. 253; thunderstorms, XVI. 129;

weights and measures, xxiv. 490. MAURO, Fra, Italian geographer, x. 180. MAURUS, St, Benedictine monk, xv.

642. , Hrabanus (q.v.), mediaeval scholar,

xii. 326. MAURUSIA (Mauretania), country,

North Africa, xv. 636.

MAURY, Alfred, on magic and astrology,

" 739- , Jean Siffrein, cardinal, archbishop

of Paris, xv. 642. , Matthew Fontaine, American

hydrographer, xv. 642; his Physical

Geography of the Sea, x. 197. MAUSOLEUM, origin of the name, II.

413, 644; XL 383; xv. 643; of Hali-

carnassus, Asia Minor, XL 384 ; of

Bijapur, India, in. 669; Roman, n.

419; xx. 831. MAUSOLUS, king of Caria, xv. 643; XL

383; XVIIL 579; tomb of, n. 413, 644. MAUVAISES TERRES, Colorado plateau,

U.S.A., xxni. 799. MAUVE, colour, n. 48. MAUVISSIERE, Michel de Castelnau,

Sieur de la, French soldier and

diplomatist, v. 194. MAVIS, bird, xxm. 321. MAVOR, William, stenographer, XXI.834- MAVROCORDATO, Constantine and

Nicholas, hospodars of Walachia, xxi.

1 8. MAVROCORDATOS, Alexander, Greek

leader, XL 125.

MAVROMMATI, village, Greece, xvi. 52. MAW, river, Wales, xvi. 38. MAWACA, river, South America, XVII.

843- MAXENTIUS, Marcus Aurelius Valerius,

Roman emperor, xv. 643; basilica of,

in. 414. MAXIMA AND MINIMA, in mathematics,

xv. 643; XIIL 22; xxiv. 85. MAXIMIANUS, Bishop, his sculptured

ivory throne, xxi. 556. , Galerius Valerius, Roman emperor,

xv. 644; xx. 777; martyrdom of

Theban legion by, xv. 637. -, Marcus Aurelius Valerius, Roman

emperor, xv. 644. MAXIMILIAN I., emperor, xv. 644; x.

496.

II., emperor, XV. 645; X. 499.

, emperor of Mexico, XV. 645; XIIL

758; his death, IX. 625. MAXIMILIANEUM, at Munich, xvn. 26. MAXIMILLA, Montanist prophetess, xvi.

775- MAXIMINUS, Caius Julius Verus,

Roman emperor, xv. 645. , Galerius Valerius, Roman emperor,

xv. 645. MAXIMS, La Rochefoucauld s, ix. 663;

xiv. 318. MAXIMUS, St, abbot of Chrysopolis, XV.

646. , Magnus Clemens, Roman emperor,

xv. 645; xxm. 258. -, Marcus Clodius Pupienus, Roman

emperor, xv. 645. -, Petronius, Roman emperor, xv.

646.

, Terentius, pretender in Parthia, xvin. 603,

MAXIMUS TYRANNUS, Roman emperor, xv. 645.

MAXITE, mineral, xvi. 399.

MAXWELL, James Clerk, English physi cist, xv. 646 ; his experiments on compound colours, xvn. 802 ; his theory of magnetic molecules, XV. 276; on viscosity, xix. 248; his work on electricity and magnetism, vni.

15-

, Robert, on the husbandry of Scot land, I. 302. , Sir William Stirling-, Scottish man

of letters, xv. 647. MAXWELLTOWN, town, Scotland, xiv.

98.

MAY, month, xv. 647. , Cornells Jacobsen, director, New

Netherland, America, xvn. 454. MAYAGUANA, island, West Indies, in.

236. MAYANS Y SISCAR, Gregorio, Spanish

writer, XXII. 360. MAYAPAN, ancient town, Central

America, xxiv. 758. MAYAS, people, Central America, xn.

828; xxiv. 758; ancient traditions of,

xvi. 208.

MAYAVARAM, town, India, xxni. 47. MAYBOLE, town, Scotland, xv. 648. MAYBOROUGH, or Maybrough, England,

Cromlech at, xxi. 52; xxiv. 516. MAY-DAY, xv. 648; in England, in time

of Shakespeare, XXI. 750. MAYDOOM, Egypt, Picture of birds from,

XVIIL 2.

MAYENCE (Mainz, q.v. town, Hesse- Darmstadt, Germany, xv. 305.

M A YENNE, department and town, France, xv. 648. -, Duke of, French prince, IX. 563.

MAYER, Johann Tobias, German astro nomer, xv. 649 ; his tables, n. 760; on lunar observations, xvn. 260; on magnetism, XV. 236; his formula for meridian transits, xxm. 516. -, Julius Robert, German physicist,

xv. 649; on the mechanical equivalent of heat, vni. 208.

, Mademoiselle, French painter, XX.

i.

MAYFLOWER, Landing of the, at Ply mouth, U.S.A., xv. 615; xxni. 729.

MAY-FLY, insect, vni. 458.

MAYHEM, in law, xv. 649.

MAYKOP, town, Russia, xv. 650.

MAYNOOTH, village and college, Ireland, xv. 650.

MAYO, county, Ireland, XV. 650; repre sentation, xxni. 727.

, river, Africa, xvn. 496.

-, Earl of, governor-general of India,

xii. 811.

MAYO-KEBBI, valley, Soudan, Africa,

xxn. 277. MAYON, mountain, Philippine Islands,