Morton (VI)
WILLIAM THOMAS GREEN, an American dental surgeon, and the reputed discoverer of anæsthetics; born in Charlton, Mass., in 1819. In 1840 he commenced the study of dentistry in Baltimore, and began to practice in Boston. In 1844, in the latter city, while engaged in experimental study, he discovered ethereal anæthesia. It was first publicly tested on Oct. 16, 1846, in a surgical operation at the Massachusetts General Hospital. He patented his new anesthetic under the name its advantages of "letheon," offering free to the charitable institutions of England and the United States. The committee of the French Academy awarded the Montyon prize of $1,250 to be equally divided between Dr. Jackson and Dr. Morton; but the latter refused to receive this joint award, protested against the decision of the Academy, and prize in 1852 received the Montyon yon medal. He died in New York City, July 15, 1868.
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Mosaic Gold
A cheap brass used for making imitation jewelry. It is made by alloying copper with about equal parts of zinc. See GOLD ALLOY; ORMOLU; TOMBAC.
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Mosasaurus
in paleontology, the name given by Conybeare to a gigantic marine Saurian, called by Wagler Saurochampsa. It is now made the type of a family, Mosasauridæ. M. camperi was discovered in the Maestricht chalk in 1780, and was named by Sömmering Lacerta gigantea. It came into possession of the French at the fall of Maestricht (1794). Another species, M. princeps, is believed to have been 70 feet long.
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Mosby
JOHN SINGLETON, an American military officer; born in Powhatan co., Va., Dec. 6, 1833; was graduated at the University of Virginia, and became a lawyer. On the outbreak of the Civil War, he entered the Confederate service as adjutant of the 1st Virginia Cavalry. In 1862-1865 he was colonel of the "Partisan Rangers," an independent cavalry command that did very effective work in cutting National communications, capturing outposts, etc. After the war he practiced law at Warrentown, Va.; was United States consul at Ho Hong Kong in 1875-1885. He wrote "War Reminiscences" (1887) and "The Dawn of the Real South" (1901). Died in 1916.
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Moscheles
IGNAZ (mōsh'e-les), a musician; born in Prague, May Bohemian m 30, 1794, of Jewish parents; was between 1808 and 1816 the favorite music master Vol. VI-Cyc-U of Vienna. Settling in London in 1825, he taught at the Academy of Music and conducted the philharmonic concerts. After residing in England for 26 years, he became professor in the conservatory of Leipsic. He edited, in English, Schindler's "Life of Beethoven" (1841). He died in Leipsic, March 10, 1870.
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Moselle
mo-zel', a celebrated river of France and Germany. It is about 360 miles in length. It empties into the Rhine at Coblenz. See Wine ; Bingen ; Coblenz
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Moselle (Affluent of the Rhine rises)
an affluent of the Rhine, rises at the S. W. extremity of the Vosges Mountains in France, at an elevation of about 2,412 feet. Its course is N. W. as far as Toul; thence it proceeds in a N. E. direction through Luxemburg and Rhenish Prussia, and joins the Rhine at Coblenz, flowing on its way through Metz, Thionville, and Treves. Its entire length is 315 miles, and it is navigable up to Frouard, 214 miles from Coblenz. The wines grown in the basin of the Moselle are noted.
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Moses
GEORGE HIGGINS, United States Senator from New Hampshire, 1918-1924; born in Maine in 1869; graduated from Dartmouth College in 1890. In the same year he became private secretary to the governor of New Hampshire; then, from 1893 to 1906, he was secretary to the State Forestry Commission. He was a delegate to the Republican National Conventions of 1908 and 1916. President Taft appointed Moses Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Greece and Montenegro, a position which he held from 1909 to 1912. Senator Moses was a vigorous opponent of the ratification of the Treaty of Ver sailles when that document was laid before the Senate.
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Moskwa
a branch of the Volga's tributary, the Oka, rises in a marsh in the E. of Smolensk, flows E. to the city of Moscow, and thence 112 miles S. E. to the Oka. Its total course is 305 miles. It is navigable from its mouth to Mos- November and April, cow, except between veen when it is generally frozen, and is connected directly with the Volga by the Moskwa Canal. MOSLEM (Arabic, muslim, a true believer; plural, muslimin, hence the corrupt form, musulman), a general appellation in European languages for all who profess Mohammedanism.
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Mosler
HENRY, artist; born in New York City in 1841; he began by studying wood engraving and painting at Cincinnati and in France and Germany, attaining a reputation in Paris, where he lived for years. His first public work was as draughtsman on "The Omnibus," a Cincinnati comic weekly. He won numerous gold medals and similar distinctions here and abroad, among them the cross of the Legion of Honor. His best known works include: "The Reurn," "Wedding Feast in Brittany," "Rainy Day." He died in 1920.
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Mosquito Coast
or RESERVE, a maritime tract of Nicaragua, having E. the Caribbean Sea, and S. the river San Juan, which separates it from Costa Rica. The river Segovia, which enters the Caribbean Sea near Cape Gracias a Dios, is the boundary with Honduras. Next the sea, the surface is low and C B E E. Female broken by numerous lagoons, but gradually rises toward the interior. Mosquito Coast is inhabited by people of mixed Indian and African race, some 15,000 in all, and by tribes of aboriginal Indians. Chief town, Bluefields; pop. ( 1917) 4,706. Mosquito Coast was discovered by Columbus in 1502, and appropriated by Spain. From 1655 to 1850 it was an English protectorate, but in 1860 was made over to Nicaragua. After being for some time under the protectorate of Great Britain was was reincon reincorporated with Nicaraguamby the department of Zelaya, Nov. 20, 1894. Recognized by Great Britain in 1905.
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Moss-Woman The
The Moss or Wood Folk, dwelt in the forests of Southern Germany . Their stature was small and their form strange and uncouth, bearing a strong resemblance to certain trees with which they flourished and decayed. They were a simple, timid, and inoffensive race, and had little intercourse with mankind; approaching only at rare intervals the lonely cabin of the wood-man or forester, to borrow some article of domestic use, or to beg a little of the food which the good wife was preparing for the family meal. They would also for similar purposes appear to labourers in the fields which lay on the outskirts of the forests. A loan or gift to the Moss-people was always repaid manifold. But the most highly-prized and eagerly-coveted of all mortal gifts was a draught from the maternal breast to their own little ones; for this they held. to be a sovereign remedy for all the ills to which their natures were subject. Yet was it only in the extremity of danger that they could so overcome their natural diffidence and timidity as to ask this boon--for they knew that mortal mothers turned from such nurslings with disgust and fear. It would appear that the Moss or Wood folk also lived in some parts of Scandinavia . Thus we are told that in the churchyard of Store Hedding, in Zealand, there are the remains of an oak wood which were trees by day and warriors by night.
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