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LEFT MECKLENBURG 171 MEDAL OF HONOR Frederick and John Albert, then existing representatives of the lines of Mecklen- burg-Schwerin and Mecklenbiirg-Giis- THE MEDAL OF HONOR, UNITED STATES ARMY trow. The division of the entire duchy between the grand-duchies of Strelitz and Schwerin was effected Mar. 8, 1701. In THE MEDAL OF HONOR, UNITED STATES NAVY 1815 the dukes assumed the title of grand-duke. In November, 1918, Meck- lenburg- Strelitz was proclaimed a re- public. MECKLENBURG DECLARATION, a resolution said to have been adopted in May, 1775, at a midnight meeting of rep- resentatives of the militia of Mecklen- burg CO., N. C. It declared that the peo- ple of that county were fi'ee and inde- pendent of the British crown, and not only was its general tenor that of the Declaration of Independence, but many phrases are word for word as in that document. The minutes of the midnight meeting were destroyed by fire in 1800. MECONIC ACID, in chemistry, CtH.Ot. One of the constituents of opium discov- ered by Sertiirner in 1805. It is prepared THE DISTINGUISHED SERVICE CROSS, UNITED STATES ARMY from the alcoholic extract of opium by precipitating with baric chloride and de- composing the baric meconate with sul- phmic acid. It crystallizes in colorless, mica-like plates or prisms, containing three molecules of water, with difficulty soluble in cold water and ether, but more readily in iiiot water and alcohol. MEDAL OF HONOR (United States). Awarded for bravery on the battle field. Instituted in 1862 and authorized by