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in electricity, molecular science, electro-magnetic theory of 

 light, etc. 



MENDEL, Gregor (1822-82), peasant by birth, monk and 

 abbot of Briinn (Austria) ; studied physiological process 

 of heredity in peas, etc., grown in cloister garden. 



MILLEB, William Allan (1817-70), professor of chemistry, 

 King's College, London, 1845 ; experiments in spectrum 

 analysis, especially in relation to astronomy (with Huggins), 

 1862 ; assayer to the Eoyal Mint and Bank of England. 



MOLYNEUX, Samuel (1689-1728), F.E.S. ; P.O.; M.P., 

 1715-27 ; Lord of Admiralty, 1727. Astronomical re- 

 searches. 



MULLER, Johannes Peter (1801-58), professor of philo- 

 sophy, Bonn Univ., 1826-33 ; professor of anatomy and 

 physiology, Berlin Univ., 1833-58. 



NARES, Sir George Strong (1831-1915), F.E.S. ; E.N. ; 

 commanded H.M.S. Challenger, 1873 ; expedition to Arctic, 

 1875-76 ; K.C.B., 1876 ; vice-admiral, 1892. 



NEWTON, Alfred (1829-1907), F.E.S. ; professor of 

 zoology and comparative anatomy, Cambridge ; travelled 

 in Iceland, Spitsbergen, N. America, etc. ; special interest 

 in protection of birds, chairman of close-time committee. 



NEWTON, Sir Isaac (1642-1727), F.E.S. ; mathematician ; 

 astronomer; originator of the conception of universal 

 gravitation ; educated at Cambridge ; Lucasian professor 

 there, 1669-1702; published Principia, 1687; M.P. for 

 Cambridge Univ., 1689, 1701-2; warden, 1696, and 

 master, 1699, of the Mint ; president Eoyal Soc., 1703-27 ; 

 Kt., 1705. 



NORTHCOTE, Sir Stafford Henry, 1st Earl of Iddesleigh 

 (1818-87), 8th Bart., 1851 ; C.B., 1851 ; M.P., 1855 seqq. ; 

 president, Board of Trade, 1866 ; secretary for India, 1867 ; 

 chancellor of the Exchequer, 1874-80 ; created Earl of 

 Iddesleigh and Viscount St. Cyres, 1885 ; foreign secretary, 

 1886. 



ORSTED, Hans Christian (1777-1851), professor of 

 natural philosophy, Copenhagen ; discovered effect of wire 

 uniting poles of a voltaic pile upon a magnetic needle, 1820, 



