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Mitre, BARTOLOME (1821-1906). 

 Argentine soldier, president, and 

 man of letters. Born at Buenos 

 Aires, June 26, 

 1821, he began 

 his public life 

 as journalist in 

 1838 at Monte- 

 video. Leav- 

 ing Uruguay 

 for Bolivia, he 

 became chief 

 of the staff to 

 Bartolome Mitre, the president, 

 Argentine statesman on w hose fall 

 he was exiled and went to Peru, 

 and thence to Chile, where he 

 became noted as a journalist, and 

 for his attacks on the government 

 was again exiled. 



In 1852 Mitre returned to 

 Argentina, and having taken part 

 in the successful revolt against 

 Rosas when Buenos Aires became 

 an independent province, he was 

 successively commander-in-chief of 

 its army, minister of war, and 

 minister of government and foreign 

 relations. In 1862 he was elected 

 president of the confederation for 

 six years. He died Jan. 18, 1906. 

 Founder of La Nacion (q.v.) and 

 prominent as a writer, he was 

 author of Historia de Belgrano y 

 de la Independencia Argentina, 

 1859, and Historia de San Martin 

 y de la Emancipation Sud-Ameri- 

 cana, 1889-90 (abridged English 

 translation, The Emancipation of 

 South America, 1893). 



Mitrovitza. Town of Yugo- 

 slavia, formerly in Hungary. It is 

 situated in Slavonia on the left 

 bank of the Save on the boundary 

 of Serbia, 57 m. by rly. via Indjiia 

 from Belgrade. Pop. 13,000. 



Mitry, HENRI DE (1857-1924). 

 French soldier. The son of the 

 comte de Mitry, of an old Lorraine 

 family, he was 

 born at Le 

 Menil Mitry 

 Sept. 20, 1857, 

 and educated 

 at the Lycee 

 at Nancy and 

 at St. Cyr. He 

 entered the 

 French army 

 as a lieutenant 

 of cavalry in 



1877, was "colonel of the 29tb Dra- 

 goon Regiment in 1910, and general 

 of brigade in Aug., 1914, becoming 

 general of division in Feb., 1915. 

 During the Great War he com- 

 manded successively the 1st cuiras- 

 sier brigade, the 6th cavalry 

 division, the 2nd cavalry corps, the 

 6th army corps, pair of the army 

 of the north, and the French 9th 

 and 7th armies. He took part in 

 the battles of the Yser, Oct. -Nov. 

 1914, of the Aisne in 1917, and in 



Henri de Mitry, 

 French soldier 



1918 in the battle ot Montdldier, 

 and the 2nd battle of the Marne 

 He died Aug 18, 1924 



Mitten. 

 Covering for 

 the upper 

 part of the 

 hand. It 

 differs from a 

 glove in not 

 covering the 

 fi n g e r s. It 

 is made of 

 silk, wool, or 

 cotton. Fine 

 Mitten. Covering o n e n -w o r k 

 for hand and wrist 



. mittens were 



fashionable among women in the 

 early part of the 19th century. 



Mittweida. Town of Saxony. 

 Situated 35 m. S.E. of Leipzig, it 

 has textile factories and machine 

 shops. In the neighbourhood are 

 silver-lead mines. Pop. 18,000. 



Mitylene OR MYTILENE. Island 

 hi the Aegean Sea, off the coast of 

 Mysia, anciently called Lesbos. 



especially favoured by Tiberius 

 and Nerva. Pop. , island , 1 30,000 ; 

 town, 50,000. Pron. Mitti-lene. 



Mivart, ST. GEORGE JACKSON 

 (1827-1900). O British scientist. 

 Born Nov. 30, 1827, Mivart was 

 educated at 

 Clapham and 

 Harrow, after- 

 wards study- 

 ing at King's 

 College, Lon- 

 don. After 

 joining the 

 Roman Catho- 

 lic Church, he 

 was called to 

 the bar, but 

 devoted him- 



St. George Mivart, 

 British scientist 



Elliott & Fry 



self to science, and in 1862 became 

 lecturer on anatomy at S. Mary's 

 Hospital. In 1869 he was made 

 F.R.S., and was secretary of the 

 Linnean Society, 1874-80. For 

 three years he was a professor at 

 Louvain. Meanwhile, his writings 

 had given him a reputation as a 



Mitylene, Aegean Sea. 



The town of Mitylene, on the east coast of the island, 

 seen from the roadstead 



Its area is 675 sq. m. It is 

 mountainous, with two excellent 

 harbours, the soil is fertile, and 

 corn, olives, and vines are exten- 

 sively cultivated. About 1100 B.C. 

 it was occupied by Aeolian immi- 

 grants, and five centuries later, 

 under its " tyrant " Pittacus, it 

 became the centre of the civiliza- 

 tion of the Aeolians of Asia Minor. 

 Greek lyrical poetry arose in 

 Lesbos, the birthplace of Alcaeus, 

 Terpander, Sappho, and Erinna. 



It was successively in the hands of 

 Persians, Athenians, Mithradates, 

 and the Romans. In the 14th cen- 

 tury the east Roman emperor, John 

 Palaeologus, bestowed it upon a 

 Genoese nobleman, by whose 

 descendants it was held until its 

 conquest by the Turks in 1462. In 

 1913 it was restored to Greece. 

 Its most important towns were 

 Mitylene and Methymna. After the 

 defeat of the Persians, Mitylene 

 joined the Athenian naval league, 

 but, having revolted, its territory 

 was distributed among Athenian 

 settlers. In the time of Alexander 

 it suffered severely from the Mace- 

 donians, and later from the Romans, 

 aa a punishment for having sup- 

 ported Mithradates. It was rebuilt 

 by Pompey and soon recovered 

 much of its prosperity, and was 



zoologist, and brought him into 

 touch with Darwin and Huxley, 

 while his lectures at the Zoological 

 Gardens and the Royal Institution 

 made his name popular. He did not 

 accept the Darwinian theory of 

 evolution, although in a sense he 

 was an evolutionist. In his later 

 years he turned to the study of 

 philosophy, and wrote certain 

 articles which led to his ex- 

 communication. He died April 1, 

 1900. Among his voluminous 

 writings may be mentioned : On 

 the Genesis of Species, 1871 ; Man 

 and Apes, 1873 ; The Cat, 1881 ; 

 Nature and Thought, 1882; The 

 Origin of Human Reason, 1889 ; 

 and Birds, 1892. 



Mixtec. American Indian tribe 

 in Oaxaca, Guerrero, and Puebla, 

 Mexico. They numbered 166,157 

 in 1910. Still progressive, they are 

 descended from a pre-Spanish 

 people who stood outside the Aztec 

 confederacy. Their advanced cul- 

 ture and industrial art embodied 

 both Mexican and Mayan charac- 

 teristics. See Maya ; Mexico. 



Mixture. In chemistry, a term 

 used to imply that the ingredients 

 of a composition retain their in- 

 dividual properties. Sulphur and 

 iron filings may be mixed together 

 without chemical combination 



