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MIGNET 



Midsummer Night's Dream. Scene at the close of the play where Oberon 



and Titania are reconciled and the fairies remove the ass's head from Bottom. 



From the picture by Sir Noel Paton, B.S.A. 



Scoltiih National Gallery 



1905, when Oscar Asche played 

 Bottom, Walter Hampden Oberon, 

 Beatrice Ferrar Puck, Frances 

 Dillon Hermia, and Lily Brayton 

 Helena ; His Majesty's, April 17, 

 1911, when Arthur Bourchier was 

 Bottom, Basil Gill Lysander, and 

 Evelyn D'Alroy Oberon. See 

 Bottom. 



Midwife. Woman who assists 

 women during childbirth. In 

 England and Wales, under the Mid - 

 wives Acts of 1902 and 1908, no 

 woman is allowed to practise mid- 

 wifery for gain unless certified as 

 a midwife. 



The central midwives board is a 

 body set up in 1905 to control the 

 examination and registration of 

 midwives in England and Wales. 

 The offices are 1, Queen Anne's Gate 

 Buildings, London, S.W. No wo- 

 man can now be certified unless she 

 has followed a prescribed course of 

 study and passed certain examina- 

 tions, and the board can remove 

 the name of a midwife from the roll 

 for misconduct. See Birth; Ob- 

 stetrics ; Pregnancy. 



M.I.E.E. Abbreviation for 

 Member of the Institution of 

 Electrical Engineers. 



Mieres. Town of Spain, in the 

 prov. of Oviedo. It stands on the 

 river Nalon, 12 m. by rly. S. of 

 Oviedo. The centre of the Asturian 

 mining industry, it has iron-foun- 

 dries, steel and zinc works, blast 

 furnaces, and chemical works. An 

 extensive trade is carried on in 

 timber, cider, fruit, and cattle. Sul- 

 phur, copper, and cinnabar are 

 mined. Pop. 28,000. 



Mierevelt, MICHIEL JANSZ VAN 

 (1567-1651). Dutch painter. Born 

 at Delft, May 1, 1567, he studied 

 there under Willemsz and Augus- 

 tvns, and at Utrecht under An- 

 tonio Blokland, 1579-83, and be- 

 came court painter to the prince of 

 Orange He was famed for his 



M. van Mierevelt, 

 Dutch painter 



After Van Dyek 



numerous portraits, executed with 

 a skill and attention to detail 

 which compensate for a certain 

 coldness in 

 treatment. 

 Among his 

 portraits are 

 those of Gro- 

 tius, Gustavus 

 Adolphus o f 

 Sweden, Huy- 

 gens, Coligny, 

 the duke of 

 Buckingham, 

 and William 

 the Silent, and 

 he left also some still life and genre 

 paintings. Examples are to be seen 

 in the Ryksmuseum, Amsterdam, 

 the Louvre, The Hague, Dresden, 

 Berlin, and one in the National 

 Gallery, London. He died at Delft, 

 July 27, 1651. 



Mieris, FRANS VAN, THE ELDER 

 (1635-1681). Dutch painter. Born 

 at Leiden, April 16, 1635, he 

 studied at 

 first under a 

 glass painter, 

 Abraham 

 Toorenvliet, 

 then under 

 van den Tem- 

 pel, and later 

 under Gerard 

 D o u w , and 

 became a 

 m ember of 

 the Leiden Guild, 1658. He painted 

 scenes of better class Dutch life. 

 He died at Leiden, March 12, 1681. 

 Most continental galleries possess 

 examples of his work. His sons 

 Jan and Willem and his grandson 

 Frans were also painters. 



Miers, SIR HENRY ALEXANDER 

 (b. 1858). British scientist. Born 

 at Rio de Janeiro, May 25, 1858, 

 and educated at Eton and Trinity 

 College, Oxford, he was assistant 

 in the British Museum, 1882-95. 



Frans van Mieris, 

 Dutch painter 



Sir Henry A. Miers, 

 British scientist 



Instructor in 

 crystallo- 

 graphy at the 

 central techni- 

 cal college, S. 

 Kensington, 

 1886-95, he 

 edited the 

 Mineralogical 

 Magazine, 

 1891-1900, 

 was Waynflete 

 professor o f 



mineralogy, Oxford, 1895-1908, 

 and principal of the university of 

 London, 1908-15. In 1915 he be- 

 came vice-chancellor of the univer- 

 sity of Manchester and professor 

 of crystallography. In addition 

 to publishing numerous scientific 

 papers he was author of The Soil 

 in Relation to Health (with Dr. R. 

 Crosskey), 1893, and Mineralogy 

 1902. He was knighted in 1912. 



Migne, JACQUES PAUL (1800- 

 75). French theologian and pub- 

 lisher. Born at St. Flour, Cantal, 

 Oct. 25, 1800, he was educated at 

 Orleans. In 1824 he was ordained 

 priest, and in 1833, owing to a 

 disagreement with his bishop, went 

 to Paris, where he founded a journal 

 L'Univers Religieux, and three 

 years later, after selling it, founded 

 a publishing establishment at Petit 

 Montrouge. He issued a great num- 

 ber of theological texts and other 

 publications, possessing for the 

 most part little critical value. His 

 publications include Encyclopedic 

 theologique, 171 vols., 1844-66; 

 Collection des Auteurs Sacres, 100 

 vols., 1846-48; and the enormous 

 Patrologiae Cursus Completus, 

 Greek series, 161 vols., 1857-66, 

 Latin series, 221 vols., 1844-55. 

 In 1868 the printing works were 

 destroyed by fire. Migne died in 

 Paris, Oct. 25, 1875. 



Mignet, FRANCOIS ADGUSTE 

 MARIE '(1796-1884). French his- 

 torian. Born at Aix, Provence. 

 May 8, 1796, 

 the son of a 

 locksmith, he 

 studied at 

 Avignon and 

 Aix, and be- 

 came a lawyer. 

 He made a 

 name, how- 

 ever, by some 

 historical 

 work, and 

 settling in Paris was for a time 

 a journalist on the side of Liberal- 

 ism. From 1830-48 he was keeper 

 of the archives of the foreign office. 

 His History of the French Revolu- 

 tion, 1824, is still a standard., while 

 his studies on the history of the 

 16th and 17th centuries Antonio 

 Perez and Philip II, 1845 ; Charles 

 V and his Abdication, 1854 ; and 



Francois Mignet, 

 French historian 



