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"Majestic,'· an ocean liner, 3218, 3278.
Majol' ica pottery, 2967.
Major, in Brit . A.rmy, 232.
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Maj rea (md-j or'ka) (Span. Mallorca),
b .r gcst of Balearic Isls. (Spanish) ; 1,330
sq. m. ; pop. 264,000; cap. Palma ;
map, 3338.
Major-general, in Br!~. Army, 232.
Majuba (m.ti,-jy,'hfi), hill in extreme N. W . of
Natai, S. Africa, where Boers d efeated
Bri.tish 1881 ; battle, 482, 3328.
" Make the worse appear the better cause,''
3080.
Makino, Viscount (b. 1861), J apanese
statesman and diplomat ; minister to
I taly (1899), and to Vienna during
R usso-Japanese War; minister of education (1906-08), of agriculture and
c0mmerce (1911-12), of foreign affairs
(1913-14) ; attended Peace Conference,
1d19.
Malabar (miil'a-bar) Coast, name often
given to w. coast of India as far N. as
Bombay; properly confined to s. par~;
scene of Mohammedan revolt 1921-22;
1924, 1933.
Malabar Hill, Bombay, 488.
Malabar squirrel, picture, 3378.
Malacca (md-lak'd), Brit. territory on w.
coast of Malay P eninsula between
Singapore and P enang ; 700 sq. m. ;
pop. 154,000 ; 2298.
Malacca, Strait of, ch annel between
Sumatra and w. coast of Malay Peninsula,
2298, 3300, map, 1186.
Malachi (mdl'dki) . The 39th book of the
Old Testament and last of the minor
prophets, written between 464 and 424
B.o. ; authorship disputed.
Malachite (miil'd-lrlt) . A bright gr een
cpfjper dre, cbmmonly found massive
though occasionally in stalactitic and
other forms ; it is found in the Ural
Mts., in France, and elsewher e ; plized
as an ornamental stone.
Malaga (mdl' d;;gd), Spain. Mfg. city and
spt. on Mediterranean, 65 m. N.E. of
Gibraltar ; pop. 15!3,000 ; taken from
1\foors by Christians 1487 ; sacked by
Fren ch 1810 ; ships '\\rine, grapes, raisins,
olives, etc. ; ~ath., picture, 3346.
Malaga wine, 333.8..
Malagasy (mat=ti-§as' t), native of ~fada­
gascar, 2279.
Mi'lar,. ~ke, Sweden~ extends iblartd from
B,alt ib Sea §.t Stockholm ; 450 sq. m. ;
of irregular ~hape and cont~ins some
1,200 iSls. ; 3'4'4 8, 1nap, 264i. .
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Malaria, dis~~se consistitl.g usually of succes~ive chHJ, fever, and " ititertbission"
or p eriod of normality ; cause and prev ention, 1595; 1n India, 1926; in Italy,
2006 ; in P anama, 2760 ; mosquito,
2483- 4.
Malaspina (rnii-ld-spe'nd) Glacier. La,rgest
glacier in Alaska, w. of Yakutat Bay :
covers 1,500 sq. m. and has front 70 m.
long.
Malatia (rnii-lii-te'a), Tur}ey. Important
trade centre in E . ASia Minor ; pop.
30,000; massacre of Armenians, 1895.
Malay Archipelago, 2296. See also in
Index East lndies.
Malayan or sun bear, 386.
Malayan fowls, 2972.
Malay Peninsula, 2296-8; map, 1186;
coffee, picture, 1467; flyir ~ dragons,
2212; gutta-percha, 1752; life of natives,
240, 2291- 8; pig-tailed monkey, p icture, 2452; panning tin, picture, 3545;
rice-growing, 3088; rubber, 3137.
Malay python, sk eleton, picture, 3073.
Malays, natives of Malay P eninsula and
adjacent isls., 2298, 3014; in Borneo,
· 521 ; bride, picture, 1 792 ; Celebes, 77 3 ;
Java, 2050 ; Maori chief, picture, 3025 ;
Siam, 3289.
Malay States, 2298, map, 578.
Malay tiger, 3541.
Malcolm (miil' kom). Nam e of four kings
of Scot. ; the most n oteworthy was
Malcolm Ill (Canmore), whc ruled from
1054-93 ; h e several ti:.ne~ invaded
Eng., and was killed at Malcolm Cross,
in Northumberland.
Mal' dive Islands. Group of 13 coral islets
in the Indian Ocean s.w. of India ; pop.
70,000 (Mohammedan) ; ruled by a
sultan, tributary to Ceylon govt.
Key to Pronunciation-Cape,
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Maldon (mg,l' don), Eng. Small port of
Essex, on Blackwater R . 40 m. N . E. of
London ; Daniah victory over English
in 901 ; 1326.
Malebranche (mtil-bransh'), Nicolas (16381715). Fr. l)hilosopher, follower of
Des cartes.
Maleo (mal' e- o), an Australian bird of the
m egapod family ; head, pictu1·e, 441 .
Malet (miil'et), Lucas (b. 1852). P en-name
of lHary St. Leg er Harrison, ·the Eng.
novelist, daughter of Charles Kingsley
("The Wages of .~ in"; " Adrian Savage" ;
" Th e Tall Villa" ; " The Survivors ").
Malherbe (rn/i.l-erb' ), Francois de (15551628), Fr. poet and critic, 1508.
Malia, Cape, the s.E. extremity of Mor ea, the
s. p eninsula of Greece, 972.
Ma'lic
acid, an organic acid found in plant
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Malines (rnii-len') or Mechlin, Belgium.
Mfg. city 14 m. s. of Antwerp; pop.
60,000 ; ecclesiastical centre ; largely
destroyed in 1914 by Germans in drive
on Antwerp.
Ma'lin Head, Irish Free State, the northernmost promontory of Ireland, 10 m. N . of
Cardonagh.
Mal'lard, a common river duck, 1145,
picture, 1146.
Malleabil' ity, of copper, 968; gold, 1628,
picture, 1628; silver, 3300.
Mal'lee-bird, an Australian megapod,
1208.
Mallophaga (ma-lo.f' d-{jd), order of insects
including bird lice, 1958.
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Mal'lory, George Leigb (1885-1924), Brit.
mountaineer, who a.fter making a record
climb of 26,800 ft. up ~Iount Everest
in 1922, was killed in an expedition in
1924 ; 594.
Mal' low family, or M alvacece, a family of
plants with stamens fused in to a central
column, picture, 529 ; includes c0tton,
1002.
Malmaison (rniil-ma-zan') Castle, chateau
n ear Paris, home of Rmpress J osephine.
Malmedy (mal-ma' cle), tn. and dist. in E .
Belgium 25 m . s.E. of Liege, c~ded with
· Eupen by Ger. 191J ; map, 406.
Malmo (mal 'm'O,), 3rd city of Sweden, spt.
and industrial centr e on s. coast ; pop.
114,000; ferry to Copenhagen, Denm ark ~ 3448.
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Mal' ory, Sir Thomas (d. 1470), translator,
compiler, and aut.hor (in part) of first
notable Eng. prose r omance, "Morte
d' Arthur," 236, 1312•
Malpighl (mal-pe' ge), Marcello (1628-94),
!tal. physiologist, one of t he first to
apply the microscope to the study of
animal and vegetable str ucture and t.he
fust to attempt t he anatomy of the
brain ; demonstrates blood circulation,
476, 2399.
Malplaquet (miil-pld-kii'), Fr., vil. n ear
Belgian frontier, scene of Fr. d efeat
(1709), 2351.
Malt, barley or other grain that has been
artificially germinated or sprouted by
moisture and heat; largely used in
brewing a nd distilling ; ch emical nature,
91.
Malta (mg,l'td), self-governing Brit. isl. in
Mediterranean; naval base; a. 95 sq.
m., with Gozo and CoJP,ino, 118 sq. m. ;
pop. 224,000; 2298- 9.
Malta, Knights of, Crusading Order, 2298.
Malta fever, 2299.
Malt' ase, st ar ch-digesting enzyme of
saliva.
Malted milk, 2424, 1112-4.
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Maltese or hen pigeon, picture, 2884.
Maltese orange, 2701.
Malthus (mal'th11s), Thomas Hobert (17661834), Eng. economist and a uthor of
"Malthusian" theory; influence, 1060,
1192.
Malthu' sianism. The t heory advanced in
Malthus' " Essay on Population .. that
population, increasing in geometrical
r atio, tends, unless checked, to outrun
subsistence, which incr eases in arithmetical ratio.
Malt' ose, a sugar, 3436.
Malva' cem. See in I ndex Mallow family.
Mal' vern or Great Malvern. Fashionable
inland r esort with noted mineral springs
in w. Eng., 7 m . s.w. of 'Vorcester ;
pop. 17,809 ; on E . side of :raalvern Hills,
which extend N . and s. 9 m.; famous
public school, founded 1862 ; 3788,
p·i cture, 3787.
Malvern Hills, Eng. Hill range extending about 9 m. between H er efordshire
and Worcestershire; 1,400 ft. high ;
1838, 3787.
Mam' elukes. Fighting slaves of Egypt
who served the Sultan as mounted soldiers, and in 1240 overthrew the rule of
the Caliphs and made one of their own
n umber sultan.
Mamil'ius, Octavius, leader of Latin r evolt,
3112.
Mam'mals, the Mammalia, vertebrate
animals which nurse their young,
2300- 18, 136, 2334, pictures, 2303- 18;
bats, 364- 5; egg-laying t ypes, 1147-8,
1208; evolut ionary position, p icture,
127; evolved from r eptiles, 3061-2,
1252 ; feed on milk, 2423 ; feet, 1471 ;
first appearance in geologic time, 1352,
i571; fossil, 1478; groups, 2302; h air
a distinguishing mark, 1756- 7 ; hibernation, 1842-3 marsupials and placentals,
2079-80, 2700 ; migrations, 2403- 4;
r odents, 3106; whales and t h eir r ela tives, 37 45- 7 ; young, 2302.
Mam' mon. Riches or the god of riches
and cupidity; t erm used in the New
T estament.
Mammoth, a h airy elephant-like animal,
now extinct, 2302, pictures, 769, 1249.
Mammoth Cave, Ky., U.S.A., 75 m. s.w. of
Louisville, 766-8, map and p ictures,
767.
Mammoth Hot Springs, Yellowstone N ational Park, U.S.A., terraces of beautifully scalloped basins covering an area of
some 2,000 acres; there are altogether
about 70 springs, with temperatures up
to 175°.
Mammoth tree, p opular name of the
Sequoia gigantea, 3248.
Man, 2319- 20 ; classified in animal kingdom, 135- 6 ; brain, 541-3 ; early home
in Asia, 244, ~48; evolut ion theory,
1353, 159, 1269 ; future possibilities,
head, pict'ure, 156; laws of heredity,
1836- 7 ; life and geographic conditions,
1550, 2873-4; m ast ery of the earth ,
1976 ; mind, 2990- 1 ; prehistoric period,
768- 71, 3416-7, 2319- 20, 1910; r aces,
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