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Rh MARZIALS, Frank Thomas; AccountantGeneral of the Army since 1898; entered War Office during Crimean war ; author of 1 Lives of Dickens and Victor Hugo,’ collaborating also in the ‘ Life of Thackeray,’ ‘ Life of Gambetta,’ etc. (F. T. M.)

MASKELYNE, J. Nevil; of the Egyptian Hall, London ; author of ‘ Sharps and Flats.’ (J. N. M.)

MASON, Otis Tufton, A.M., Ph.D. ; Curator Ethnology, U.S. Nat. Museum, Washington; author of ‘ The Hupa Indians,’ ‘ Woman’s Share in Primitive Culture,’ ‘ Cradles of the North American Indians,’ ‘ The Antiquities of Guadeloupe,’ etc. (O. T. M.)

MATHEWS, George Ballard, M.A., F.R.S. ; late Professor of Mathematics, University Coll, of Wales ; formerly Fellow of St John’s Coll., Cambridge ; author of ‘A Treatise on Bessel Functions ’ (part), ‘ Theory of Numbers,’ etc. (G. B. M.)

MATTHEWS, Brander, LL.B., D.C.L., A.M. ; Professor of English, Columbia University ; author of ‘ French Dramatists of the Nineteenth Century,’1 Introduction to the Study of American Literature,’ ‘Aspects of Fiction and Other Ventures in Criticism,’ etc. (B. M.)

MATTHEWS, George Edward, A.B.; editor of ‘The Buffalo Express,’ Buffalo, N.Y. (G. E. M.)

MAURICE, Maj.-Gen. Sir John Frederick, K.C.B.; commanded Woolwich District, 1895-1901; Ashanti Campaign, 1873-74; South Africa, 1879; Zulu Campaign, H80 ; Egyptian Expedition, 1882; Intelligence Dept. War Office; Sudan, 1884; A.Q.M.G.; Nile, 1885 ; Professor of Military History, Staff College, Aldershot, 1892-93; commanding R.A., Colchester, 189395; Maj.-Gen., Dec. 189">; author of ‘War,’ in Ninth Edition of ‘ Ency. Brit.,’ ‘Life of Frederick Denison Maurice,’ ‘ Hostilities without Declaration of War,’ ‘ Balance of Military Power in Europe,’ ‘War,’ ‘National Defences.’ (J. F. M*.)

MAUS, Octave; editor of ‘ L’Art Moderne,’ Brussels. (O. M)

MAXWELL, William H., A.M.I.C.E. ; Borough and Waterworks Engineer, Tunbridge Wells Corporation ; author of ‘ The Removal and Disposal of Town Refuse,’ ‘ Destructors and Steam Production,’ etc, (W. H. Ma.)

MAYO-SMITH, Richmond, PhD., the late ; Professor of Political Economy, Columbia University, New York; author of ‘Emigration and Immigration,’ ‘ Sociology and Statistics,’ etc. (R. M.-S.)

MEAD, Hon. Elwood ; in charge of Irrigation Investigations, U.S. Department of Agriculture. (E. M*.)

MEAKIN, Budgett, author of ‘The MoorislI Empire,’ etc. (B. M*.)

MEISSAS, Gaston; memb. Socidte de G6ographie; author of ‘Marseilles,’ and (part) of ‘Paris,’ in the Ninth Edition of the ‘Ency Brit.,’ ‘Grands Voyageurs de notre Siecle,’ etc. (G. Me.)

MERCATELLI, Lnigi, late war correspondent in Abyssinia of ‘ La Tribuna.’ (L. Me.)

MERRIFIELD, Webster, LL.D.; President and Professor of Political Economy, State University of North Dakota. (W. Ms.)

MERRILL, Hon. Frederick James Hamilton, Ph.D.; Director of N.Y. State Museum, Albany, N.Y., N.Y. State Geologist; Fellow Am. Ass. Adv. Science and Geol. Soc. of America; Member Am. Inst. Mining Engineers, Am. Soc. of Naturalists, Nat. Geol. Soc., etc. (F. J. H. M.)

MIDDLETON, R. E., M.I.C.E., M.I.M.E. ; Fellow of the Sanitary Inst., Fellow of Surveyors’ Inst., etc. ; late Engineer-in-Charge of Surveying of Forth Bridge ; Instructor in Surveying, Central Tech. Coll., S. Kensington; Lecturer on Waterworks, Engineering and Sewage, Univ. Coll., London; part author of ‘A Treatise on Surveying,’ etc. (R. E. M.)

MIJATOVICH, Chedomille; Senator of the kingdom of Servia since 1875 ; Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the King of Servia to the Court of St James, 1895-1900 ; transferred to Constantinople, 1900 ; Minister of Finance and Commerce of Servia, 1873 ; Minister of Foreign Affairs and Finance, 1880; Servian Minister to the Court of St James, 1884; Servian Plenipotentiary for the conclusion of peace with Bulgaria, 1886 ; Member of Royal Servian Academy of Science; corresponding member of South Slavonic Academy; hon. member of Royal Hist. Soc. London; author of several publications in Servian on Political Economy, Finances, History of Commerce, and History of Servia in Fifteenth Century; novels — ‘Rayko of Rassina,’ ‘Ikoniya, the Mother of the Vezier,’ MOSCA, Gaetano; Professor of Constitutional etc., ‘Constantine the last Emperor of the | Law, Turin, Italy. (G-. Mo.) Greeks,’ ‘ Ancestors of the House of Orange.’ (C. Mi.)

MOSCHINI, V. ; Mayor of Padua. (V. Mo.) Frederick Walker, M.D., B.S. MILL, Hugh Robert, D.Sc.(Edin.), LL.D. (St MOTT, Loud., F.R.C.P., F.R.S.; Physician to Out

Andrews), F.R.S.G.S., F.R.G.S., F.R.Met.Soc.; Patients, Charing Cross Hospital; Patho

Director of British Rainfall Organization, and

logist to the London County Asylums ; editor of ‘ Symons’ Meteorological Magazine ’ Croonian Lecturer, Royal College of Physicians, since 1901; Hon. Corresponding Member of the 1900. (F. W. Mo.)

Geographical Societies of Paris, Berlin, Amsterdam, Budapest, Brisbane, and Philadelphia ;

MUIR. John, A.M., LL.D.; U.S. Explorer and Naturalist; discoverer of the Muir glacier, Recorder of Section E, British Association, Alaska; author of ‘ The Mountains of Cali

1893-99 ; President, Section E, 1901; British ;1

fornia ’ and of numerous articles on the natural Delegate to International Conference on the history of the Pacific Coast, Alaska, etc.; Exploration of the Sea, at Christiania, 1901 ; Editor ‘Picturesque California.’ (J. Mu*.)

author of ‘ Rainband,’ ‘ Rain-gauge,’ ‘ Thermometer,’ ‘ Whirlpool,’ in Ninth Edition of ‘ Ency.

MUIR, Robert, M.A., M.D., C.M.; Professor Brit.,’ ‘Realm of Nature,’ ‘The Clyde Sea of Pathology, University of Glasgow ; Examiner Area,’ ‘ The English Lakes,’ ‘ Hints on the in Pathology, Oxford; senior assistant to the Choice of Geographical Books,’ ‘New Lands,’ Prof, of Pathology, Edinburgh, and Pathologist ‘The International Geography,’ etc. (H. R. M.) to Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, 1892 ; Lecturer on Pathological Bacteriology, Edinburgh, 1894;

MILLINGEN, Alexander Van, M.A. ; Professor of Pathology, St Andrews, 1898-99; Robert College, Constantinople;' author of author of ‘ Manual of Bacteriology ’ (with Dr ‘ Byzantine Constantinople,’ etc. (A. van M.) J. Ritchie), ‘ Scientific Papers,’ etc. (R. Mu*.)

MILMAN, Sir Archibald John Scott, Wilfred H.: A.M., Professor K.C.B., the late; Clerk of the House of Com-

MUNRO, of European History, Brown University, mons 1900, retired 1902 ; entered service of R.I. (W. H. Mu.)

House of Commons in 1857 ; promoted Second Clerk Assistant, 1870; Clerk Assist-

MURPHY, Shirley Forster, M.D., ant, 1886-1900. (A. J. S. M.)

M.R.C.S. ; Medical Officer of Health, Administrative County of London ; Corresp. Mem. Soc. MILNE, John, F.R.S., F.G.S.; twenty years Sweden, and of Roy. Soc. Hygiene, Italy; employed by Japanese Govt, as geologist and author of ‘ Infectious Disease and its Prevenmining engineer; established the Seismic Surtion,’ editor of ‘ Our Homes and How to make vey of Japan; designer of seismographs and them Healthy,’ etc. (S. F. M.)

instruments to record vibrations on railways, etc.; author of ‘Earthquakes,’ ‘Seismology,’

MURRAY, Sir George Herbert, K.C.B. ; ‘Crystallography,’etc. (J. Mi.)

Secretary to the Post Office since 1899 ; entered Foreign Office, 1873 ; transferred to Treasury,

MILTON, James Tayler, M.I.G.E.; Chief 1880; private secretary to Mr Gladstone Engineer Surveyor, Lloyd’s Register of Ship

and Earl of Rosebery when Prime Minister; ping ; Member of Inst, of Naval Architects Chairman Board of Inland Revenue, 1897

and of the Iron and Steel Inst., etc. (J. T. Mi.) 99. (G. H. M.)

MINCHIN, E. A., M.A., F.Z.S. ; Jodrell

MUTHER, Dr Richard. Professor of Art Professor of Zoology and Comparative Ana

History, University of Breslau; author of ‘ The

tomy, Univ. Coll., London; late Fellow of History of Modern Painting,’ ‘The Oldest Merton Coll., Oxford; late Lecturer Comp. German Picture Bibles,’ ‘ Gothic and Early Anatomy, Oxford ; late Lecturer in Biology, Renaissance Illustrations of German Books,’ Guy’s Hospital ; author of ‘ Sponges,’ ‘A Century of French Painting,’ etc. (R. Mr.) etc. (E. A. M.)

MITCHELL, Hugh; of Gibraltar; Barrister-

MYRES, J. L. ; Student and tutor of Christ at-Law, Inner Temple. (H. M*.)

Church, Oxford; author of ‘ A Catalogue of the Cyprus Museum.’ (J. L. M.)

MITCHELL, Peter Chalmers, D.Sc., M.A., F.Z.S. ; Lecturer on Biology at the London Hospital Medical College ; University Demonstrator in Comparative Anatomy, and assistant to Linacre Professor at Oxford, 1888N 91; Lecturer on Biology at Charing Cross Hospital, 1892-94 ; at London Hospital, 1894;

NAIRNE, Rev. Alexander, M.A. ; Proexaminer in-

Biology to the R.C.P. 1892-96; fessor of Hebrew and Old Testament Exegesis author of ‘ Outlines of Biology,’ ‘ The Biologi

in King’s Coll., Loud. ; Fellow of Jesus Coll.,

cal Problem of To-day ’ (translated), ‘ Thomas Cambridge, 1887-93 ; Vice-Principal of Clergy Henry Huxley,’ etc. (P. C. M.)

Training School, 1887-89. (A. N*.)

MONCKTON, Lionel; composer, and musical

NANSEN, Fridtjof, D.Sc., LL.D., D.C.L., critic to the ‘ Daily Telegraph.’ (L. M.) Ph.D. ; went to Greenland Sea, 1882 ; curator in Natural History Museum, Bergen; went

MONKHOUSE, William Cosmo, the across Greenland, 1888-89 ; curator Museum of late Assistant Secretary (Finance) Board of Comparative Anatomy, Christiania University ; Trade; served on several Departmental Com

made his North Pole Expedition, in which he

mittees and Committee on the Mercantile Marine reached the highest latitude until then attained Fund, 1894-96; author of ‘ The Christ upon (86 deg. 175 m.), 1893-96; Prof, of Zoology, the Hill,’ ‘A Question of Honour,’ ‘The Christiania University; author of ‘Across Earlier English Water-Colour Painters,’ ‘ The Greenland,’ ‘Eskimo Life,’ ‘Farthest North,’ Italian Pre - Raphaelites,’ ‘ British Contem‘The Norwegian North Polar Expedition,’ porary Artists,’ etc. (O. Mo.)

‘ Scientific Results,’ etc. (F. N.)

MONTAGU, Sir Samuel; head of the

NASH, James Okey, M.A., of the Community banking firm of Samuel Montagu and Co., of the Resurrection. (J. O. N.)

London; member of Gold and Silver Commission, 1887-90 ; author of magazine articles

NATHAN, Major F. L., R.A. ; Superintend

on Finance, Decimal Currency, Weights and

ent of the Royal Gunpowder Factory, Waltham Measures, etc. (S. M.) Abbey. (F. L. N.)

MOORE, Hon. John Bassett, LL.D.;

NATHAN, Major Matthew, C.M.G., R.E. ; Professor International Law and Diplomacy, Governor of Gold Coast; served in Nile Ex

Columbia University, New York ; author ‘ Expedition, 1885 ; Lushai Expedition, 1889 ; Sec. tradition and Inter-State Rendition,’ ‘ Inter

Col. Defence Com. 1895-1900; administered

national Arbitrations,’ etc. (J. B. M*.)

Government Sierra Leone, 1899. (M. N.)

MORENO, Dr Francesco P. ; donor and

NELSON. William Rockhill, Editor-in

director of the La Plata Museum, Buenos Aires ;

Chief of the ‘ Kansas City Star,’ Kansas City, repr. in Great Britain of the Argentine in con

Mo. (W. R. N.)

nexion with Chilian Argentine Boundary Dispute ; author of ‘La Plata,’ etc. (F. P. M.)

NEWCOMB, Prof. Simon, Ph.D., LL.D., D.Sc., D. Nat. Phil.; Superintendent U. S.

MORFILL, William Richard, M.A.; ProNautical Almanac; Foreign Mem. Royal Society, fessor of Russian and the other Slavonic lanLondon; Assoc. Institute of France, etc.; guages, Oxford ; Curator of the Taylor Instituauthor of ‘Moon’ in Ninth Edition of ‘Ency. tion, Oxford ; author of ‘ Russia ’ (History Brit.,’ ‘Popular Astronomy,’ etc.; editor of and Literature) in Ninth Edition of ‘ Ency. ‘ American Journal of Mathematics.’ (S. N.) Brit.’ (W. R. M.)

Frederick Haynes; Hydro

MORSE, John Torrey, Jr. ; sometime Lec-

NEWELL. grapher of the U.S. Geol. Survey; author of turer on History, Harvard University ; author ‘ Agriculture by Irrigation,’ ‘ Hydrography of of biographies of Alexander Hamilton, Abraham the United States,’ etc.
 * (F. H. N.)

Lincoln, John Quincy Adams, Thomas Jefferson, etc., and of ‘The Life and Letters of Oliver

NEWSOM, George Ernest, M.A.; ViceWendell Holmes.’ (J. T. Mo.)

Principal of King’s College, London. (G. E. N.)

MORTON, Hon. Julius Sterling (the

NEWTON, Henry G., M.A., LL.B. ; Referee

late); sometime U.S. Secretary of Agriculture in Bankruptcy, New Haven, Conn. (H. G. N.) and President of Nebraska State Historical Society. (J. S. M*.)

NISBET, C. (C. N.)