MOULIN ROUGE 



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MOULTON 



Many forms pivvioii-lv 



! ;l- ili-t'll* ' IIC HOW 



[utiti'l tn ! merely developnn m >l 



stages of higher fungi, notaMv <>f 



Most species liavc 



! preferences for their food, 



one spcvicj affecting dead leaves, 



..ill. is iivcr-rijic fruit, milk, cheese, 



tluT fiinni, manure, and jams. 



of the best-known species, 

 IM it attacks almost any kind 

 . .1 i lead organic matter, is Peni- 

 m glaucum, the green mould. 

 a white creeping mycelium, 

 i forms a delicate felt-work, 

 fertile hvphae arise erectly, branch, 

 and bear at their extremities a chain 

 of green -tinged spores. These spores 

 frequently act as yeast, breaking up 

 saccharine solutions, and producing 

 fermentation. Other moulds, of 

 the order Zygomyceteae, bear their 

 spores in capsules. 



Moulin Rouge, LK (Fr., the red 

 mill). Parisian place of amuse- 

 ment. Situated in the Boulevard 

 de Clichy, and built on the site of 

 the old Bal de la Reine- Blanc he, 

 it was oj>ened Oct. 5, 1889, and 

 destroyed by tire Feb. 28, 1915. A 

 spacious establishment, attached 

 to which was a magnificent garden, 

 its daily programme included a 

 concert, followed by dance music 

 by a first-class orchestra. The 

 Moulin Rouge owed its name to 

 the windmill which towered above 

 the entrance, the sails of which 

 were illuminated by red lights. 

 Its rebuilding was announced in 

 1921. 



Moulins. City of France. The 

 capital of thedept.of Al!ier,itstand3 

 on the river Allier, 36 m. by rly. 

 S.S.E. of Nevera, and is a rly. junc- 

 tion. Cutlery, textiles, hats, and 

 glass are the chief manufactures. 

 The Gothic cathedral of Notre 

 Dame has two fine towers. Its 

 choir was originally the chapel of 

 the castle, and the chief of its 

 many treasures is a beautiful 

 triptych. The church of the 

 Sacr6 Coeur is modern. Other 

 buildings include the town hall, 

 palais de justice and a 15th cen- 

 tury belfry. There are remains 

 of a castle, once the residence of 

 the Bourbon family. Therein is a 

 museum containing the famous 

 Bible, dating from 1115, brought 

 from the priory of Souvigny. From 

 1368-1527 Moulin was the capital 

 of the Bourbonnais. Pop. 22,000. 



Moulmein OB M \ri M \i N. Sea- 

 port of Burma, in the Amherst 

 (list. It is situated near the mouth 

 of the Salween, sheltered by Bhilu 

 Island from the Gulf of Martaban, 

 but is rainy during the monsoon. 

 In 1824 it was a fishing village, but 

 is now the second port of Burma, 

 with a great export of teak floated 

 in rafts down the Salween, and of 



i , . It has connexion by rly. with 



nid Rangoon. Pop. 67,000. 



Moulting. Name given to the 



periodical shedding of the outer 



covering of animals. It is bent 



Moulmein, Burma. New and old 

 pagodas, the former in foreground 



known in the birds, which usually 

 shed and renew their feathers after 

 the nesting season. This is appar- 

 ently a time of ill- health and of 

 strain on the constitution, and 

 birds are usually silent, and inactive 

 during it. Moulting is also seen in 

 the periodic shedding of the cara- 

 pace in growing crustaceans, in the 

 sloughing of the skins of snakes, 

 and in the shedding of the skins of 

 myriapoda, spiders, and insects, the 

 process being known as ecdysis. 

 Many mammals also shed their hair 

 in the spring and grow a thicker 

 coat again at the. approach of 

 winter. See Animal ; Mammal 



Moulton, JOHN FLETCHER MOUL- 

 TON, IST BARON (1844-1921). Brit- 

 ish lawyer and scientist. Born at 

 Madeley, Nov. 18, 1844, the son of 

 the Rev. J. E. Moulton, a Wesleyan 

 minister, he was educated at Kings- 

 wood School, Bath, and S. John's 



d' Allier, looking toward 

 the Sucre Coeur 



Moulins, Fn 



College, Cambridge, becomingnonior 

 wi :iii'_'lc-r HI 1868, and fellow of 

 Christ's College. (Jailed to the bar 

 at the Middle Temple in 1874, 

 Moulton soon became known aa an 

 authority on patent law, and wan 

 made a Q.C. in 1885. He WM 

 Liberal M.P. for Clapham in 1885- 

 v'.. l.ut did not again secure a seat 

 until 1894, when returned for South 

 Hackney. From 1898-1906 he was 

 M.I', for the Launceston division 

 of Cornwall, retiring on being made 

 a judge of the court of appeal In 

 1912 he was given a lire peerage, 

 and made a lord of appeal. 



Lord Moulton during the Great 

 War devoted his technical know- 

 ledge to the production of explo- 

 sives, being chairman of the com- 

 mittee on high explosives, and 

 afterwards director-general of ex- 

 plosive supplies for the ministry of 

 munitions. In 1919 he became 

 chairman of the British Dyestuffs 

 Corporation. He died March 9, 

 1921. He contributed an article on 

 Science and the Future to this 

 Encylcopedia. See New Horizons. 



Moulton, ELLEN LOUISE CHAND- 

 LER f 1835-1 908). American poet. 

 She was born at Pomfret, Connec- 

 ticut, April 10, mMMBBWa^M 

 1835, and edu- 

 cated at Troy, 

 New York. She 

 took to literary 

 work while 

 quite young, 

 editing The 

 Waverley Gar- 

 land in 1853, 

 and writing 

 This, That, 

 and the Other in 1 So4. In 1855 she 

 married William Moulton, a Boston 

 publisher. Her more notable poems 

 include Swallow-Flights, 1878, 

 and In the Garden of Dreams, 

 1889. She died Aug. 10, 1908. 



Moulton, JAMES HOPE (1863- 

 1917). British theologian. Born 

 Oct. 11, 1863, he was the son of Rev. 

 W. F. Moulton and a nephew of Lord 

 Moulton. Educated at the Leys 

 School and King's 

 College, Cam- 

 bridge, he entered 

 I the Wesleyan min- 

 istry in 1886, and 

 was classical lec- 

 turer at G irton and 

 Ne wn ham Col- 

 leges, 1887-1901. 

 In 1902 he was 

 appointed Green- 

 wood professor of 

 Hellenistic Greek 

 and Indo-Euro- 

 pean philology, 

 Manchester Uni- 

 versity. He died 

 in April, 1917. 



Ellen Moulton, 

 American poet 



