MY INGYAN 



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MYROBALAN PLUM 



Myingyan. Dist. and town of 

 Burma, in the Meiktila division. 

 The dist. is situated on the left 

 bank within the curve of the Ira- 

 wadi and N.E. of the Pegu Mts. 

 Oil seeds are the chief crop. The 

 town is a railway terminus on the 

 left bank of the Irawadi. Area 

 3,107 sq. m. Pop. dist., 442,000; 

 town, 16,400. 



Myitkyina. Dist. and town of 

 N. Burma, in the Mandalay divi- 

 sion. The town is situated on the 

 Upper Irawadi more than 250 m. 

 N.N.E. of Mandalay, with which 

 it is connected by rly. It is a rly. 

 terminal on the right bank of the 

 Irawadi, of which it is the limit of 

 navigation. The area of the dis- 

 trict is 10,977 sq. m. Pop. dist, 

 85,600 ; town, 5,700. 



Mylitta. Goddess of Baby- 

 lonian mythology, associated with 

 love and fruitfulness. Herodotus 

 records that her worship claimed 

 special rites from every woman at 

 some time in her life. 



Mylius, EDWARD. Sentenced, 

 Feb. 1, 1911, to 12 months im- 

 prisonment for publishing a sedi- 

 tious libel in leaflets called The 

 Liberator, to the effect that King 

 George V had been married in 1890 

 to the daughter of an admiral in 

 Malta, and that therefore hia 

 marriage in 1893 to Queen Mary 

 was a bigamous one. The admiral 

 in question and his daughter gave 

 evidence of the absolute baseless- 

 ness of the allegation, which 

 Mylius was quite unable to substan- 

 tiate by any evidence. 



Mylius Erichsen Land. That 

 part of N. Greenland lying S. of 

 Heilprin Land, E. of Peary Land, 

 and bounded N. and E. by Wandel 

 Bay and Denmark Fiord, in lat. 80 

 to 82 N. It was named after the 

 Danish explorer, who penetrated 

 here in 1906. 



Mylonite. In petrology, a rock 

 which has been crushed by earth 

 movements so as to lose its original 

 structure. Most mylonised rocks 

 are quartzose, and are found in 

 regions of metamorpbism. Typical 

 examples of raylonite are found in 

 the N.W. of Scotland. 



Mynn, ALFRED (1807-61). Eng- 

 lish cricketer. Born at Goudhurst, 

 Kent, Jan. 19, 1807, he joined the 

 Harrietsham, 



MHBBHMHBH Kent, cricket 

 club in 1825. 

 He played at 

 Lord's in 1832, 

 and became 

 one of the chief 

 cricketers in 

 the country. A 

 stalwart of the 

 Gentlemen, he 

 Alfred Mynn, helped in their 

 English cricketer victories over 



the Players between 1840-50, and 

 played regularly for Kent almost 

 up to his death. As a fast round- 

 arm bowler Mynn had no equal, 

 whilst his batting, though not 

 so brilliant, was good. He died 

 Nov. 1, 1861. See Cricket. 



Mynyddislwyn. Urban dist. 

 of Monmouthshire. It is 8 m. S.W. 

 of Pontypool, and stands on the 

 coalfield, its industries including 

 iron, tinplate, and chemical works. 

 There are quarries in the neigh- 

 bourhood. The council supplies 

 gas and electricity. Pop. 10,000. 



Myocarditis (Gr. mys, muscle, 

 kardia, heart). Inflammation of 

 the muscle substance of the heart. 

 See Heart. 



Myopia (Gr. myops, short 

 sighted). Short sight. It is an error 

 of refraction most commonly due 

 to abnormal elongation of the eye- 

 ball, with the result that parallel 

 rays are brought to a focus in front 

 of the retina, and vision is accord- 

 ingly indistinct. Only divergent 

 rays are f ocussed on the retina, and 

 in consequence short-sighted per- 

 sons find it necessary to hold an 

 object closer to the eye than do 

 normal persons. See Eye. 



Myosin. Proteid produced by 

 muscle plasma after death. The 

 muscle plasma separates into a 

 serum and a clot, the latter being 

 myosin. It is this occurrence in the 

 muscles of the body after death 

 which causes the phenomenon 

 known as rigor mortis (q.v.). Myo- 

 sin is contained in brine which has 

 been used for pickling meat, and 

 it can be prepared from flesh after 

 the removal of albuminoids. 



Myriapoda. Sub-class of the 

 arthropoda, which includes the 

 centipedes and millipedes <?.'.'.). 



Myriapoda. Giant centipede 01 



S. America, Scolopendra gigas, 



Above, common millipede 



W. S. Berridgt, F.Z.S. 



They have long, segmented, cylin- 

 drical, or flattened bodies, and 

 each segment is provided with 

 paired limbs. The animals are 

 notable for the great number of 

 their legs, though not so numerous 

 as their name suggests. There are 



a great number of species, distri- 

 buted over the tropical and tem- 

 perate regions of the world. Great 

 Britain has several, all of which 

 are small and harmless. 



Myricaceae. Small natural 

 order of shrubs and trees. Natives 

 of Europe, Asia, S. Africa, and N. 

 America, they have alternate and 

 undivided leaves, often covered 

 with a wax-secreting down. The 

 male and female flowers are dis- 

 tinct, in separate spikes, and with- 

 out sepals or petals ; the males 

 consisting merely of stamens, and 

 the females of the one-celled ovary 

 and two thread-like styles. The 

 fruit is compressed on two sides, 

 and contains a single-seeded stone. 

 The species yield fragrant wax, 

 benzoic acid, and tannin. See 

 Sweet Gale. 



Myrmidons. In Greek legend, 

 the Thessalian tribe of which 

 Achilles was king. Achilles brought 

 them to Troy, and withdrew them 

 from the fighting when he quar- 

 relled with Agamemnon. Their un- 

 qualified devotion to Achilles has 

 caused the term myrmidon to be 

 taken as the type of unquestioning 

 obedience. 



Myrobalani Emblica (Phyllan- 

 thus emblica). Tree of the natural 

 order Euphorbiaceae. A native of 

 India and Malaya, its alternate 

 leaves are slender, and arranged in 

 two ranks along the twigs. The 

 small green flowers have the sexes 

 separate, and are clustered. The 

 small, acid, fleshy fruit contains a 

 hard nut with six seeds. The fruits 

 are eaten raw, or preserved with 

 sugar as a sweetmeat. The bark 

 i s used in tanning and dyeing. The 

 wood is hard and damp-resisting. 



Myrobalan Plum or CHERRY 

 PLUM (Prunus cerasifera). Shrub of 

 the natural order Rosaceae. Its 

 native country is uncertain, but is 

 probably the Caucasus. The 

 branches are not spiny ; the leaves 

 are elliptical, the flowers white, and 

 the fruit round and red, with 

 yellow flesh. It is much used for 

 making hedges. 



Myrobalan Plum. Spray of ioliaga 

 and fruit. Inset, single flowers 



