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an anvil. When the gun is fired, the shortness of the middle toe. 

 the gases acting on the piston It breeds in vast colonies off the 

 cause the copper cylinder to be coasts of Florida and S. America, 

 crushed, and by measuring the the nest being a bracket of seaweed 

 reduction in length, which this projecting from the rocks, one 

 treatment has caused, it is possible nest serving for hundreds of years. 



Node. In astronomy, one of the 

 two points in which the orbit of a 



PAGANI. City of Italy, hi the prov. 

 of Salerno. It stands on the Sarno. 



to estimate the pressure which 

 existed in the gun. See Explosives. 



Nocera Inferiore OR DE' planet intersects the plane of the 



jj, c ecliptic. The 

 one at which the 

 body passes to 

 the N. of the 

 ecliptic is 

 termed the 

 ascending, the 

 other the de- 

 scending node. 



J5 The celestial 



Noble Pressure Gauge. Longitudinal and cross sections. longitude of the 

 A. Piston. B. Copper cylinder. C. Gas check. See text ascending node 



is one of the astronomical elements 

 which determine the orbit of a 

 planet. The nodes of the planets, on 

 account of planetary perturbations, 

 move slowly round the ecliptic 

 backwards, the period for Mercury, 

 for example, being 166,000 years. 



Node (Lat. nodus, a knot). That 

 portion of the stem of a plant from 

 which a leaf arises. The interven- 

 ing bare length between two nodes 

 is an internode. See Plant. 



Noe, AMEDEE CHARLES HENRI, 

 VICOMTE DE (1819-79). French 

 caricaturist, generally known as 

 Cham (q.v. ). 



Nogent-sur-Marne. Town of 

 France, really a residential suburb 

 of Paris. In the dept. of the Seine, 

 it is 6 m. from the city proper 

 on the E. side, being close to the 

 Bois de Vincennes. It stands on a 

 hill above the Marne, and railway 

 lines, one being the Grande Ceintu re, 

 and tramways connect it with the 

 capital. It has a Gothic church, 

 and a monument to Watteau, who 



ing the night, forming part of the died here. The industries include 

 office of matins. The nocturns chemical factories and pottery 

 probably represent a division of 

 the vigils, originally recited at mid- 

 night, into two offices on ordinary 

 days and three on Sundays. They 

 consist mainly of psalms and les- 

 sons. See Matins. 



Nocturne (ItaL notturno). 

 Musical composition, usually of a 

 placid character. Some nocturnes 

 are of the nature of serenades, 

 others are rather music to accom- 

 pany sleep scenes, such as Mendel- 

 ssohn's Notturno in the music to 

 A Midsummer Night's Dream. 

 John Field (1782-1837) probably 

 first used the title for his short, 

 romantic pianoforte pieces, and 



23 m. by rly. S.E. of Naples. The 

 city has a ruined castle. Pop. 12,000. 



Noctes Ambrosianae (Lat., 

 Ambrose' s nights ). Title of a series 

 of 70 symposia, which appeared in 

 Blackwood's Magazine, 1822-35, 

 39 of them being by John Wilson 

 (1785-1854), writing under the 

 pseudonym of Christopher North. 

 Purporting to be records of the 

 conversations of the Ettrick Shep- 

 herd (James Hogg) De Quincey, 

 and others round the punch bowl at 

 Ambrose's tavern, Edinburgh, the 

 Noctes Ambrosianae achieved great 

 popularity. See Wilson, John. 



Noctiluca (Lat. nox, night; lu- 

 cere, to shine). Genus of marine 

 flagellate infusorians. They are 

 heart-shaped, about l-50th of an in. 

 in diameter, and have a whip-like 

 process by means of which they 

 swim. They occur in vast swarms hi 

 the British seas and give rise to the 

 phenomenon of phosphorescence. 



Nocturn. In the R.C. breviary, 

 office appointed to be recited dur- 



Chopin adopted it for his more 

 famous nocturnes. 



Noddy (Anous stolidus). Small 

 tern found in the tropics. It is 

 blackish in colour, with a light 

 patch on the forehead, and distin- 

 guished by its graduated tail and 



works. Pop. 14,000. Nogent-sur- 

 Seine, 35 m. from Troyes, has a 

 notable church, S. Laurent. 



Nogi, MARESUKE, COUNT (1849- 

 1912). Japanese soldier. Born of 

 a Samurai family, he became a 

 soldier, and first saw service in the 

 civil war of 1877. He led a brigade 

 in the war 

 against China, 

 and in the 

 Russo - Japan- 

 ese War com- 

 manded the 

 third army. 

 He forced Port 

 Arthur to sur- 

 render, and 

 then made the 

 flank march 

 which was 

 the decisive move in the battle of 

 Mukden. With his wife he com- 

 mitted hara-kiri (q.v.) on the 



death of the mikado, Sept. 13, 1912, 

 having lost two sons before Port 

 Arthur. From 1896-1900 Nogi 

 was governor of Formosa. See 

 Mukden ; Port Arthur ; Russo- 

 Japanese War. 



Noguchi, YONE (b. 1875). 

 Japanese poet and critic. Born in 

 Tsushima, Aichi, Japan, he studied 

 at Keio University, Tokyo, and 

 from 1893 lived in the U.S.A., 

 first visiting England in 1903. He 

 returned to Japan in 1904, and 

 became professor of English litera- 

 ture at Keio 

 University. 

 His works in 

 English in- 

 clude Seen and 

 Unseen, 1897 ; 

 From the East- 

 ern Sea, 1903; 

 The Summer 

 Cloud, 1906 ; 

 The Pilgrim- 

 age, 1909; 

 Kamakura, 

 1910; and The Spirit of Japanese 

 Art, 1915. The Story of Yone 

 Noguchi, 1914, is an autobiography. 

 He has written several works on 

 literary and travel subjects in 

 Japanese, 1915-20. 



Noisseville. Village of Lor- 

 raine, France, 5 m. E. of Metz. It 

 was famous as the scene of a defeat 

 of the French under Bazaine by the 

 German army, Aug. 31 and Sept. 1, 

 1870. See Franco-Prussian War. 



Nola. City of Italy, in the prov. 

 of Caserta, Campania. Situated 

 21 m. E.N.E. of Naples, on the rly. 

 to Baiano, it has a Gothic cathedral 

 and remains of the 4th century 

 church of S. Felix. Built on the site 

 of a city founded probably by Auso- 

 nians or Etruscans, it was taken by 

 Rome in 313 B.C. The emperor 

 Augustus died here. Pop. 12,000. 

 Nollekens, JOSEPH (1737-1823). 

 British sculptor. Born in Soho, Aug. 

 11, 1737, the son of Joseph Francis 

 Nollekens, a 

 landscape 

 painter, called 

 OldNollekens, 

 he studied at 

 Shipley's 

 school, and 

 under Schee- 

 makers. After 

 ten years in 

 Rome, 1760- 

 70, he settled 

 in London, and was elected A.R.A. 

 hi 1771 and R.A. hi 1772. His 

 works included portrait busts of 

 George III. Wellington, William 

 Pitt, and many other celebrities. 

 He died in London, April 23, 1823. 

 His eccentric appearance and 

 character are described in J. T. 

 Smith's Nollekens and his Times, 

 newed. 1920. 



Joseph Nollekens, 

 British sculptor 



