Melrose
a village in Scotland situated on the Tweed, twenty-nine miles southeast of Edinburgh. Abbotsford, the home of Sir Walter Scott, lies three miles to the northward. The village is celebrated for the ruins of Melrose Abbey. They are considered the finest in Scotland. For a brief but telling description, the reader is referred to Scott's famous lines in The Lay of the Last Minstrel, beginning. If thou would'st view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moonlight. The Abbey was founded by King David I, 1136. The body of the church was 258 feet long and 137 feet wide. The general style is ornate Gothic. It is built of sandstone. See Abbotsford
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Melrose
a city of Middlesex co., Mass., 7 miles N. of Boston, on the Boston and Maine railroad, made up by villages of Melrose Highlands, Fells, and Wyoming. Has manufactures of boots, shoes, and rubber goods and is governed by mayor and board of aldermen. Pop. (1910) 15,715; (1920) 18,204.
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Melrose
a village of Scotland, county of Roxburgh; on the Tweed, 31 miles S. E. of Edinburgh. Melrose Abbey, originally founded by David I., in 1136, was destroyed by Edward II. of England in 1322. In 1336 it was rebuilt by Robert Bruce, and completed in the reign of James IV., about 1488-1513. It was again destroyed by the English in 1545.
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Melting Points
Metals. Specific Gravity. Order of Malleability. Order of
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Melting-furnace
The cupola and reverberatory are the iron-foundry melting-furnaces; the crucible air-furnace, forced-draught, and reverberatory are the brass-founders' and steel-melters.' A reverberatory furnace is employed by glass-makers for calcining the materials, and crucible or "glass furnaces" to melt the glass. The application of the Siemens regenerative process is becoming general for all these purposes, excepting for iron-foundries, and a considerable saving in fuel is effected wherever this system obtains. See FURNACES.
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Melton
. See Kersey
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Melton-Mowbray
Leicestershire, England, in the center of a great hunting district; on the Eye river near its junction with the Wreak, 104 miles N. N. W. of London; it has a fine cruciform church, mainly Early English; and is famous for its manufactures of pork pies and Stilton cheese. Near the town in February, 1644, a severe engagement took place between parties of royalthe defeat of the latter; and among its natives have been Archbishop de Melton, who lies buried in the church, and "Orator" Henley.
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Melusina
The most famous of the fays of France . Being condemned to turn into a serpent from the waist downwaist downwards every Saturday, she made her husband, Count Raymond of Lusignan, promise never to come near her on a Saturday. This prohibition finally exciting his curiosity and suspicion, he hid himself and witnessed his wife's transformation. Melusina was now compelled to quit her mortal husband and destined to wander about as a spectre till the day of doom. It is said also that the count immured her in the dungeon of his castle. :
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Melville
GEORGE WALLACE, an American naval officer; born in New York City, Jan. 10, 1841. He entered the United States navy in 1861, rising through the various grades to that of Chief of the Bureau of Steam Engineering. He accompanied the unfortunate "Jeannette" polar expedition in 187 878; also that of the Hall relief expedition in the United States steamer "Tigress"; also the Greely relief expedition in 1884. In the "Jeannette" expedition he underwent the severest sufferings and hardships, but reached Irkutsk in safety. He became a rear-admiral in 1899, and retired in 1903. He died March 17, 1912.
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Melville (ANDREW a Scotch reformer born)
ANDREW, a Scotch reformer; born in Baldovie, Forfarshire, Scotland, Aug. 1, 1545. After completing his education at St. Andrew's University, he was appointed, in 1574, principal of Glasgow College, and took a leading part in the establishment of Presbyterianism in Scotland. In 1582, being then the principal of St. Mary's College, St. Andrew's, Melville was the first to sign the well-known Remonstrance of the Presbyterian clergy against the royal policy in ecclesiastical affairs. He was then summoned before the Privy Council on a charge of treason, and sentenced to imprisonment. He evaded the latter, however, by escaping into England, returning to Scotland, eventually, in 1585. In 1595, Melville was elected Lord Rector of St. Andrew's University. Expatriated to France for political offenses, Melville was made Professor of Theology at the University of Sedan. He died in Sedan, France, in 1622.
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Melville (HERMAN an American author born)
HERMAN, an American author; born in New York, Aug. 1, 1819. Going to sea as a cabin boy, he spent a number of years in travel. His most famous books were "Typee" (1846), and "Omoo" (1847), narrating his adventures in the Marquesas Islands; others were "White Jacket" (1850), "Moby Dick" (1851), and a number of other stories, and three volumes of poems. He died in New York, Sept. 28, 1891.
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Melville (One of the Parry Islands)
one of the Parry Islands, a sound, and a peninsula in the polar regions ions of North America. The island is crossed by lat. 75° N. and long. 110° W., and is separated on the W. by Fitzwilliam Strait from Prince Patrick Island; greatest length, 200 miles; greatest breadth, 130 miles. In 1819 Parry, who gave the island its name, passed the winter here with his crews. The sound, about 250 miles long by 200 broad, extends S. E. of the island, and communicates with the Arctic Ocean on the W. by Banks Strait, and with Baffin Bay on the E. by Barrow Strait and Lancaster Sound. The peninsula projects from the continent at its N. E. corner, and has on the N. the Fury Fury and Hecla Strait, and on the E. Fox Channel. It is 250 miles in length by about 100 in average breadth.
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Membrane
an expansion of any tissues in a thin and wide layer. Bichat divides them into serous, mucous, and fibrous membranes. Among the most important membranes in the body are those of the brain: viz., the dura mater, the arachnoid, the pia mater and the falx. Undulating membranes, simple membranous bands, one margin only of which is attached, the other being free and exhibiting an undulatory motion. They are allied to and answer the same purpose as cilia. They are stated to occur on the spermatozoa of salamanders and tritons, and in the water vessels of some Annelids, Infusoria, and Rotatoria.
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