Nearchus
an officer of Alexander the Great; a native of Crete, who settled in Amphipolis during the reign of Philip, and became the companion and friend of the young Prince Alexander. In 330 he was governor of Lycia and other provinces in Asia Minor. In 329 B. C. he joined Alexander in Bactria with a body of Greek mercenaries, taking part in the Indian campaigns. Having built a fleet on the Hydaspes, Alexander gave Nearleft the chus the command of it. He , Indus toward the end of November, 325 and, skirting the coast all the way, ar- February, rived at Susa, in Persia, in 324. His own narrative of his voyage Indica" has been preserved in the " of Arrian.
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Neath
a parliamentary and municipal borough and river-port of Glamorgan, south Wales, on a navigable E. N. E. river of the same name, 8 miles stand on of Swansea. It is believed to the site of the Roman station Nidum; and near it are the remains of an ancient castle, burned in 1231, and ruins of Neath Abbey. There are at Neath, boroughs, which is one of the Swansea extensive copper and tin-plate works and iron foundries, and chemicals are . manufactured. Pop. about 18,000
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Nebraska City
a city and countyseat of Otoe co., Neb.; on the Missouri river and on the Burlington Route and the Missouri Pacific railroads: 60 miles E. by S. of Lincoln. Here are the State Institution for the Blind, a United States government building, public library, St. Bernard's Academy, high school, waterworks, street railroad, electric lights, several daily and weekly newspapers, and banks. The city has extensive stock yards, lumber and planing mills, cereal and flour mills, starch factory, foundry, plow factories, a meat-packing plant and brickyards. Pop. (1910) 5,488; (1920) 6,279. NEBRASKA, UNIVERSITY OF, a coeducational institution, founded at Lincoln, Neb., in 1869. There were in 1919 5,529 students with 200 teachers. The endowment fund amounted to $809,000,- 000 and the value of grounds and buildings to $4,500,000. There are 145,000 volumes in the library. The total income amounted to approximately $2,280,- 000. The president is Samuel Avery, Ph. D. NEBRASKA WESLEYAN UNIVER- SITY, a coeducational institution in University Place, Neb.; founded in 1887 under the auspices of the Methodist Episcopal Church; reported at the close of 1919: Professors and instructors, 45; students, 853; volumes in the library, 4,500; productive funds, $10,000; grounds and buildings valued at $150,000; benefactions, $1,579; income, $13,227; number of graduates, 895; president, I. B. Schreckengast, D. D. NABOPO-
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Nebula
plural NEBULÆ, in astronomy, a slight cloudy patch of light, retaining its form unchanged except under keen and long-continued observation. More than 8,000 nebulæ, or star-clusters, closely resembling them, have been found in both hemispheres, and in nearly every constellation. A few, as the great nebulæ of Orion, Argo Navis, and Andromeda, Ar are visible on very clear nights to the naked eye; the rest are telescopic. When greatly magnified some are found to be composed of many thousand remote stars, others remain only as diffused masses of light. The great nebula of Orion surrounds a multiple star, Theta Orionis, consisting of six, apparently revolving round their common center of gravity. It has been found to alter its form very slightly. The spectroscope has shown that many of the nebulæ are merely gaseous. The nebulæ in Andromeda has a bright ball in the center and is spindle-shaped. In pathology, a slight speck on the cornea; also a mist or cloud suspended in the urine.
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Necessitas
Called Ananke by the Greeks, the personification of Necessity, is represented as a powerful goddess, whom neither gods nor men can resist. She carries in her hand brazen nails, with which she fixes the decrees of fate.
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Neches
a river of eastern Texas. It rises in Van Zandt co. and flows in a S. E. direction into Sabine Lake. It is about 350 miles in length.
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Necho
King of Egypt, called in Scripture Pharaoh-Necho. He succeeded his father Psammetichus in 617 B. C. He planned a canal from the Nile to the Arabian Gulf, which undertaking he was forced to abandon, after losing a great number of men. This monarch invaded Assyria, and, on his march, was attacked by Josiah, King of Judah, who was slain in the battle. Necho was turn defeated by Nebuchadnezzar, and obliged to return to his own country, where he died in 601 b. c.
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Neckar
one of the largest tributaries of the Rhine, and the principal river of Württemberg, rising on the E. declivity of the Black Forest, near the village of Schwenningen. It has a winding course of 250 miles, and joins the Rhine at Mannheim-the other towns on its banks being Tübingen, Heilbronn, and Heidelberg. From Cannstadt, about midway in its course, the Neckar is navigable. Fair wines are grown on its banks.
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Necker
JACQUES, a French statesman; born in Geneva, Switzerland, Sept. 30, 1732. He went to an early age, obtained employment in a banking house, in which he rose to a partnership, and in 13 years, having made a number of successful speculations, retired from business with a large fortune. The Revolution, which all his efforts were unable to check, obliged him to retire to Switzerland. Necker wrote three volumes on the finances of France, a book on the influence of religious opinions, and other works. He married the daughter of a Protestant clergyman, by whom he had a daughter, Madame de Staël- Holstein, the wife of the Swedish ambassador. She afterward became celebrated by the name of Madame de Staël. He died in Coppet, Switzerland, April 9, 1804.
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Necker, Jacques
Jacques (1732-1804), a French minister of finance. He was a native of Geneva. He became a member of his uncle's banking house in Paris and acquired a fortune. He married a gifted Swiss lady, the same whom the historian Gibbon desired to wed. Madam Necker's salon, that is to say, parlor, was the resort of the literary people of the day. Buffon was a constant visitor. Franklin was a frequent caller. When Gibbon visited Paris, he did not hesitate to renew an old-time acquaintance. Necker was a writer of no mean caliber, especially on subjects of finance. Madame Necker was celebrated as a beauty, wit, and woman of learning. The famous Madame de Stael was their daughter. Madame Necker was ambitious and urged her husband to sell his banking interests for a chance at the game of politics. In 1777, during our Revolutionary War, Necker was made minister of finance. He discharged the duties of the position with fidelity, gaining the favor of the people rather than that of the king. Marie Antoinette disliked him. He was twice dismissed and as often recalled. He tendered his resignation finally in 1790, in the early years of the French Revolution , and retired to his country home near Geneva. See French Revolution
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