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Magnetometer – Malacology

Magnetometer

an instrument for measuring any of the magnetic elements, as the dip, inclination, and intensity.

Mahogany Tree

Swietenia malofty, branching tree, with a large, handhogoni, one of the Cedrelaceæ. It is a some head, flowers like those of Melia, and fruits about the size of a turkey's egg. It grows in the warmest parts of Central America, in Cuba, Jamaica, Hispaniola, and the Bahamas. MAHOMET. See MOHAMMED.

Maidenhair Tree

the Salisburia adiantifolia, a deciduous tree of the yew family, a native of Japan, so called from the likeness of its leaves to the maidenhair fern.

Maidenhair

Adiantum capillus veneris, and the genus Adiantum. The former has many spreading capillary branches (whence the English name), a three to four pinnate frond, with the pinnules cuneate, lobed, crenate, glabof the interview of Charles I. with his children. Pop. about 16,000.

Maiden Plum

the name of two West Indian plants, Comocladia integrifolia and C. dentata, belonging to the natural order Anacardiacex. They yield a milky juice which, on exposure to air, becomes an indelible black dye.

Maikop

Caucasia, a town 93 miles S. E. of Ekaterinodar, situated on a branch of the main railroad line to Baku. The region round about is rich in oil wells, whose products are shipped through Maikop. Pop. about 45,000.

MAILS. See POSTAL SERVICE.

Maisonneuve

a city, near Montreal, Canada, of which it is a suburb. Its manufacturing plants employ nearly half the population, and turn out cotton goods, shoes, sugar, and foundry products. Has a fine city hall, libraries and schools. Its industrial output ranks as sixth in Canada. Pop. about 40,000.

Maitland

Australia, a town in New South Wales, on the Hunter river, 119 miles N. of Sydney and 15 miles N. W. of Newcastle. Some of the purest coal in the world is found in this region, veins running over thirty feet in thickness, but these fields have not yet been much exploited. Pop. about 12,000.

Major

in the army, a field officer next in rank above a captain and below a lieutenant-colonel. His duties are to superintend the exercises of the regiment or battalion, to carry out the orders of his superior officers, and to command in the of the lieutenant-colonel, and colonel.

Malabar Leaf

the leaf of the Cinnamomum malabathrum of Malabar, formerly used in European medicine.

Malacca

or MALAY PENINSULA.

See STRAITS SETTLEMENTS.

Malacology

the science which treats of the mollusca, or soft-bodied animals.