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M A Y M E D

MAYOR, head of a municipality, xvn. 27. MAYOTTA, island, Comores, Africa, vi.

220.

MAYOW, John, his investigations on air,

v. 461.

MAY- POLE, xv. 648. MAYPURES, cataracts, Orinoco river,

South America, xvn. 844. MAYSVILLE, town, Kentucky, U.S.A.,

xv. 651. MAYUD-UD-DlN, Tomb of, at Ajmir,

India, I. 434. MAZACA, town, Cappadocia, Asia Minor,

v. 75.

MAZAGAN, town, Morocco, xvi. 831. MAZAMET, town, France, xv. 651 ;

xxin. 65. MAZANDARAN, province, Persia, xv.

651; xvm. 627. MAZARIN, Jules, cardinal and French

statesman, xv. 651; IX. 569, 573; his

relations with Colbert, vi. 121; his

contentions with Conde, vi. 246; his

Spanish policy, xxn. 332.

BIBLE, in. 653.

MAZATLAN, town, Mexico, xv. 653. MAZDAISM, or Zoroastrianism (q.v.),

religion of ancient Persia, xx. 360. MAZE, in gardening, xiv. 180. MAZEPPA, Ivan Stephanovitch, Cossack

chief, xv. 653; vi. 448; xxi. 97. MAZER-WOOD, XL 338. MAZORAH, town, Morocco, xvi. 834. MAZOVIA, territory, Poland, xxiv. 375. MAZURANIC, Ivan, Servian poet, xxi.

691.

MAZURS, race, Eussian Poland, xix. 309. MAZZARA DEL VALLO, town, Sicily,

xv. 654. MAZZINI, Giuseppe, Italian patriot,

xv. 654; xin. 486; xx. 806. MAZZOLA, or Mazzuoli, Francesco

Maria (II Parmigiano), Italian painter,

xvm. 317; xxi. 437, 443. MAZZUCHELLI, Count, Italian writer,

xin. 512. MEACHAM, Joseph, Shaker leader, xxi.

737-

MEAD, beverage, xn. 137. , Edward, English physician, XV.

811. , Richard, English physician, xv.

656. , William, English preacher, XVIII.

493- MEADE, George G., American general,

xxiii. 790, 778.

MEADOW-GRASS, Culture of, i. 374. MEADOWS, Irrigation of, i. 345, 349;

xin. 364, 367.

MEADOW SAFFRON, vi. 124. MEADOW VALLEY MINES, Nevada,

U.S.A., xxin. 815. MEADVILLE, town, Pennsylvania,

U.S.A., xv. 656. MEAGRE, fish, xxiv. 738. MEALS, in dietetics, vn. 209.

MEAL WORM, vi. 133.

MEALY MOUNTAINS, Canada, xx. 165.

MEANEE, India, Battle of (1843), xvn.

176.

MEAN TIME, xxin. 392. MEAOU-TSZE (Miautse), Chinese tribe,

xvi. 223; v. 642.

MEARNS, or Kincardine, county, Scot land, xiv. 78. MEASLES, disease, xv. 657; xvm. 404;

in Polynesia, xix. 422. , Beef and Pork, xxin. 52; xxiv.

206. MEASURE, in arithmetic, n. 528.

, Musical, xvn. 81.

FOR MEASURE, Shakespeare s

play, XXI. 764; source of, X. 620. MEASUREMENT, Geometrical, xv. 659,

630; x. 388.

MEASUREMENTS, Magnetic, xv. 237. MEASURES AND WEIGHTS, xxiv. 478;

abbreviations of, I. 29. MEASURING, Art of, or Mensuration,

xvi. 13. MEAT, Poisonous, tainted, or diseased,

xv. 782.

, Preserved, xix. 707.

MEATH, county, Ireland, xv. 668; re presentation, xxin. 727.

, kingdom of, Ireland, xxiv. 513.

MEAUX, town, France, xv. 669. MECANIQUE ANALYTIQUE, Lagrange s

work, xiv. 208. MECANIQUE CELESTE, Laplace s work,

xiv. 301. MECARINO (Domenico Beccafumi),

Italian painter, in. 476. MECCA, town, Arabia, xv. 669; xvi.

545> 559, 569, 57i ; pilgrimage to,

xix. 93.

PILGRIMS, Quarantine of, xx. 155.

MECHABBEROTH, poems by Emanuel

b. Salomon, vin. 157. MECHANICAL ARTS, 11. 639; their rela tion to the fine arts, IX. 198. MECHANICAL LABOUR, xiv. 166. MECHANICAL SCHOOL, of medicine,

xv. 8 10. MECHANICS, xv. 676 (contents, 749);

applied, xv. 750. MECHANICS INSTITUTES, Founders of,

in. 779.

MECHANICS LIEN, in law, xiv. 570. MECHANISM, Lotze s use of the word,

xv. 13. MECHITHAR DA PIETRO, founder of

Mechitharists, XV. 774. MECHITHARISTS, Armenian monks,

xv. 774. MECHLIN, town, Belgium, xv. 774; lace

of, xiv. 1 88; Van Dyck s Crucifixion

in cathedral, xxiv. 62. MECHTHILD, of Magdeburg, mediaeval

mystic, xvn. 132. MECKEL, Johann Friedrich, German

anatomist, I. 814, 816; xxiv. 808; on

evolution, VIII. 750.

MECKLENBURG, territory, Germany,

xv. 774.

MECKLENBURG - SCHWERIN, grand- duchy, Germany, xv. 774. MECKLENBURG - STRELITZ, grand- duchy, Germany, XV. 774. MECONIUM, or Opium, xvn. 787. MEDALLIONS, in Japanese art, xin.

591. MEDALS, in numismatics, xvn. 630;

Italian, xvn. 657.

MEDANOS, sandhills, Peru, xvin. 670. MEDEA, in Greek legend, xv. 776; n.

497; xxiii. 294; myth of, xv. 202.

, play by Euripides, vin. 675.

, opera by Cherubini, v. 587.

MEDECIN MALGR Lui, MolR-re s play,

xvi. 629.

MEDEE, Corneille s play, vi. 420. MEDEENET-HABOO,Egypt, Temples at,

vii. 780. MEDELLIN, town, Colombia, South

America, xv. 777. MEDES, ancient Asiatic nation, xvin.

561. MEDFORD, town, Massachusetts, U.S.A.,

xv. 777. MEDHURST, Walter Henry, English

missionary, XV. 777. MEDIA, ancient country, Western Asia,

in. 185; xvin. 561, 586, 592; under

Cyrus, vi. 752.

MEDIAN APPLE, fruit, xvn. 810. MEDICAL ACTS, xv. 798. MEDICAL JURISPRUDENCE, xv. 778; in

relation to poisons, xix. 275. MEDICAL RELIEF, Poor Law, xix.

477- MEDICEO - LAURENZIANA LIBRARY,

Florence, Italy, xiv. 530, 548. MEDICI, House of, Italian noble family,

xv - 783, 7945 xin. 479; genealogical

table of, XV. 794 ; Michelangelo s

statues of the, xvi. 233. , Alessandro dei (Pope Leo XL),

xiv. 452. , Alessandro dei, ruler of Florence,

xv. 788. -, Bicci dei, Florentine noble, xv.

784.

, Catherine dei, wife of Henry II.

of France, XI. 670; her influence on France, IX. 556.

, Cosimo dei, the Elder, ruler of

Florence, XV. 784.

, Cosimo dei, grand-duke of Tus cany, xv. 789.

, Francesco dei, grand-duke of Tus cany, xv. 791.

, Giovanni Angelo (Pope Pius IV.),

xix. 153. -, Giovanni dei (Pope Leo X.), xiv.

450; xv. 787. -, Giovanni dei, Florentine banker,

xv. 784.

, Giovanni dei (Delle Bande Nere),