Mudfish
Amia calva, the sole species of the family Amiide. The color is dull, often dark-greenish, with black frequently spots and bands, and there is Spor a round black spot on the tail. It attains a length of about two feet; it feeds on to fluviatile crustacea. It is limited rivers and lakes of the United States, abundant between the Rocky Mountains and the Alleghenies. MUEZZIN (mö-edz'zin) (Arabic, Muzin or Muazzin; sometimes Mueddin), the official attached to the Mohammedan mosque, who announces the different times of prayer.
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Mudge
Nevil Maskelyne, 8vo, London, 1792. Investigations, founded on the theory of Motion, for determinating the Times of Vibrations of Watch Ballances. George Atwood, Phil. Trans., London, 1794. Histoire de la Mesure du Temps par les Horologes. F. Berthoud, 2 vols., 4to, Paris, 1802. Pocket Watches.--Parr, London, 1804. Essai Sur l'Histoire abregee de l' Horlogerie. M. Perron, Paris, 1820 Account of Experiments to determine the Figure of the Earth by means of the Pendulum vibrating seconds in different Latitudes; as well as on other subjects of Philosophical Inquiry. Captain Sabine, 4to, London, 1825.
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Mudge Thomas
The inventor of the lever escapement and a maker of marine chronometers. He was born at Exeter, England, in 1715. He was apprenticed to the celebrated George Graham in 1729. From 1750 to 1771 he was engaged in business in Fleet street, London. In 1765 he invented the lever escapement. In 1771 he removed to Plymouth. In 1777 he was made clockmaker to the king. In 1793 Parliament voted him the sum of pound2,500, he having previously received pound500, as a reward for his marine time keepers. He devoted the greater part of his life to the improvement of the marine chronometer, and his work in this line was celebrated for finish and correct proportion of details. He died Nov. 24, 1794.
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Muffle
An arched vessel with a flat bottom, made of refractory materials, in which to place cupels and tests in the operations of assaying, to preserve them from coming in direct contact with the fuel. One end is open, and slits on the side allow a draught of air through it. The substances operated upon are by this means effectually shielded from the impurities of the fuel. See ASSAY.
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Mufti
the title of a high Turkish office. The Grand Mufti or Sheikh-ul- Islam is the head of the great corporation of Ulema, the interpreters of the Koran, by whose decisions (when written down, Fetwas) the cadis have to judge. The chief of the Ulema is little less powerful than the grand vizier.
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Muggletonians
a sect founded by Lodowick Muggleton (1610-1698), the son of a farrier in Bishopsgate street, London. He was a tailor, and when about 40 years old began to have visions and to hear "voices," and and asserted that he and John Reeve, another tailor, were the two witnesses mentioned in the Revelation (xi: 3.). Their chief doctrines were that the distinction of Persons in the Trinity is merely nominal; that God has a real human body, and that when He suffered on the cross He left Elijah as His viceregent in heaven. MÜHLBACH, LUISE (mülbah), pseudonym of Madame KLARA MÜLLER , wife of MUNDT; a German novelist Theodore Mundt; born in Neubrandenburg, Jan. 2, 1814. She wrote a number of popular historical novels, including ; "Em- "Queen Hortense" (5th ed. 1861) peror Joseph II. and his Court" (9th ed. 1866); "Emperor Alexander and his Court" (1868); "Frederick the Great and died his Court" (8th ed. 1882). She in Berlin, Sept. 26, 1873. MÜHLBERG (mül'berg), a town of Prussian Saxony, on the Elbe, 36 miles S. E. of Wittenberg. Here, on April 24, 1547, the Emperor Charles V. defeated John Frederick the Magnanimous, Elector of Saxony.
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Muhlbach
Luise. See Mundt ; K. M
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Muhlenberg College
an educational institution in Allentown, Pa.; founded in 1867 under the auspices of the Lutheran Church; reported at the close of 1919: Professors and instructors, 14; students, 189. MÜHLHAUSEN (mül'hou-zen), a town of Prussian Saxony, on the Unstrut, 25 miles N. N. W. of Gotha; is an active center of commerce, and has manufactures of woolen and cotton goods, hosiery, etc. An important imperial free city even in the 13th century, it came to نايلاف لا JOHN MUIR Prussia in 1802, to Westphalia in 1807, and again to Prussia in 1815. Pop. about 35,000.
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Muir (CHARLES HENRY American soldier)
CHARLES HENRY, American soldier; born in Erie, Mich., in 1860; he graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1885, and from the Infantry and Cavalry School, Fort Leavenworth, Kan., in 1895, at the head of his class. He held first place in the Army Rifle Team in 1890, and with 10 companions attacked Rosario, P. I., in January, 1900, driving out General Malvar's headquarters, capturing $25,000 from his treasury, and releasing 300 Spanish prisoners. From 1903 to 1907 he was a member of the general staff at Washington and was assigned to the 28th Division in December, 1917. Has campaign badges of Indian Wars, Spanish- American War, Cuban Occupation, Philippine Insurrection, and China Relief Expedition. He became commander at Camp Hancock, Augusta, Ga., in January, 1918, and till 1920 was on service at the War Department, Washington.
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Muir (JOHN an American naturalist)
JOHN, an American naturalist born in Dunbar, Scotland, April 21, 1838; educated in Scotland and at the University of Wisconsin. His first explorations were in the less known regions of North America. For 25 years he wandered from the Gulf of Mexico to the glaciers of Alaska. In 1879 he discovered the famous Alaska glacier which bears his name. He was a member of the relief expedition sent to the Arctic regions on the United States steamer "Corwin." He wrote over 150 articles on the physiography and natural history of the Pacific coast, on Alaska, etc. He was one of the pioneers of the movement to conserve forests and establish natural parks. He was a member of the American Academy of Art and Letters. His most important works were: "Mountains of California" (1894); "Our National Parks" (1901); "Story of My Boyhood and Youth" (1913). He also contributed much to periodicals. He died in 1914.
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