Myrick
HERBERT, American editor editor Aug. 20 , 1860. Educated at Mass. Agricultural College and at Boston. Many years president of the Phelps Publishing Co. and editor of " Farm and Home," Springfield, Mass. President of the Orange Company and director of their farm papers: "Northern Farmstead," Minn.; "Southern Farmer "Southern Farmer," Atlanta; "American Agriculturist," New York, and "New England Homestead," Springfield, Mass. field, Mass. Has lectured extensively on Has built the Myrick Building, Spring- Springagricultural agricultural subjects. Author of techagriculture. Has published "Co-operative Finance" (1912); "Federal Loan System" (1916). curs in the form of trimyristin C3H6 MYRISTIC ACID. C13H27COOH . Oc- (C14H27O2) 8, in the oil of the cocoanut, nutmeg, quince seeds, and in butter and MYRMIDON MYSTERIES wool fat. It may be prepared artificially irrigation purposes, but are not navigaby melting stearolic acid with potash. ble. The climate of the higher districts It crystallizes in needles with a melting point of 53.8° C.
MYRMIDON (mur'mi-don), in Greek mythology, one of the followers whom Achilles led from Phthia to the Trojan war. According to one version of the myth, Zeus deceived Eurymedusa, daughter of Cleitus, in the form of an ant, murmex, and became the father of Myrmidon, the eponym of the Myrmidons. The Homeric poems exhibit the Myrmidons as warriors who cannot act except at the bidding of Achilles.