NOTATION 



IK- must be a law ><TO are 



n ' "imtrieH. AHUM 

 lli'iii.iiii tin- iml.iry oi 

 a Slave or li.-edin in employed M a 



>li"itli.md I.|M,II,I ..f proceeding* 

 in i In- i-iuite and law court*. 

 Notation. MII-UM! 1. mi, inr.in 



in 1 . 1 , tlio use of si.' n- ti. i< i 



. i sounds. Its CM Million h t- 

 been alow, and nu system in per- 

 fect for nil purp".-.es. Tlnvc eliicf 



methods IKIM- been cmpli.M-d : 

 (I) represent m'.: scale relations, as 

 in tin' plionetir ~\-tems of the 

 Hindus and Chinese, the old Greek 

 is, the modern Paris-! iulii:- 

 Cheve tigure notation, and the 

 T.Miir Sol-fa notation ; (2) re- 

 presenting the liicjiTing of certain 

 mstnmit -nts, known as tablaturc : 

 (15) represent in 1 ; fixed pitch, as in 

 the ordinary staff notation of 

 modern W. Europe. Each of these 

 methods of showing pitch is aided 

 by time symbols of various kinds. 

 See Musical Terms ; Pitch ; Stave ; 

 Tablature ; Time ; Tonic Sol-fa. 



Notation. System of figures and 

 simi* used in arithmetic to denote 

 numbers and operations- See 

 Arithmetic. 



Notes and Queries. London 

 weekly paper established Nov. 3, 

 1849, by W. J. Thorns, to form a 

 medium for the exchange of know- 

 ledge between literary men and 

 others. Following Thorns, its 

 editors have been John Doran 

 (1872-78), H. F. Turle (1878-83), 

 Joseph Knight (1883-1907), Vernon 

 Kendall (1907-12), and J. C. 

 Francis. A monthly journal during 

 the Great War, it reverted to its 

 weekly form in 1920, when it was 

 purchased by The Times. 



Notice. In English law, a term 

 in frequent use, usually meaning 

 knowledge of a fact. Sometimes, 

 however, it merely means know- 

 ledge of some other fact, which 

 ought to induce a careful and pru- 

 dent man to make inquiry, from 

 which inquiry he would probably 

 have discovered the fact in question. 

 In equity, a purchaser for value 

 without notice of any defect in his 

 vendor's title is always in a strong 

 position. Thus if A has borrowed 

 money from X on the deposit of his 

 title deeds, and A, afterwards ob- 

 taining the deeds somehow from the 

 lender, takes them and sells the 

 property to B, as being unen- 

 cumbered, B takes the property 

 free from the charge. But if there 

 was some fact or circumstance 

 which ought to have put B on 

 inquiry, and he did not choose to 

 inquire, he may have to hold the 

 property subject to X's loan. At 

 common law, if the holder of a bill 

 of exchange takes it with notice of 

 any fraud in its inception or trajis- 



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for, he will have n ' lo to it 



iL in In- traruferor had m "tin r 



tin- negotiable character of 



, tin- loll l-t allei-ted. 



Notification. In Kn-'lwh law, 



the compulsory nolili. .ilion i,l 



us dlseoHoa by 



uora. The Infeo- 



Diseases Nntiin 



iiiiuM every medical prac- 



Notornis. Specimen oi the almost 

 extinct bird ot New Zealand 



titioner to send to the medical 

 officer of health for the district a 

 certificate stating the name of any 

 patient he is attending, situation 

 of the building, and the infectious 

 disease from which he is suffering. 



The ministry of health has power 

 to add to the diseases named in 

 the Act, and the local sanitary 

 authority may also extend the list 

 within its area, either temporarily 

 or permanently. At the present 

 time the notifiable diseases are 

 smallpox, cholera, diphtheria, 

 membranous croup, erysipelas, 

 scarlatina, scarlet fever, typhus, 

 typhoid, enteric, relapsing, con- 

 tinued or puerperal fever, plague, 

 cerebro-spinal fever, acute polio- 

 myelitis, ophthalmia neonatorum, 

 and encephalitis lethargica. Tu- 

 berculosis is also notifiable. 



For the purposes of controlling 

 as far as possible certain occupa- 

 tional diseases which tend to arise 

 in certain forms of industry, the 

 Factory and Workshop Acts, 1901- 

 1911, require any medical practi- 

 tioner attending on or called in to 

 visit a patient whom he believes to 

 be suffering from lead, phosphorus, 

 arsenic, or mercury poisoning, or 

 anthrax, contracted in any factory 

 or workshop, to notify the case 

 forthwith to the chief inspector of 

 factories at the home office. 



Noto. Town of Sicily, in the 

 pror. of Syracuse. It stands 2 m. 

 from the Mediterranean and 21 m. 

 by rly. S.W. of Syracuse. It has 

 some handsome palaces and an 

 archaeological museum. There are 

 prehistoric tombs, Greek ceme- 

 teries, and Christian catacombs. 

 Trade is carried on in com, oil, and 

 wine. The present town was built 



NOTRE DAME 



m 1703, ten year* after the da- 

 M met ion by earthquake of the 

 medieval city, which occupied the 

 ite of Netura, a Nikel city 5 m. to 



Notochord ;r. n<4ot, back; 

 chordi, cord). la embryology, a 

 cellular, cartilage-like rod, which 

 r.i in the : verte- 



brate* and forms the buis of the 

 vertebral column. Except in the 

 lowest form* of vertebrate* it din- 

 appear* after the embryo atage, 

 and is replaced by the vertebral 

 < "liimn See Vertebrates. 



Notornis. New Zealand bird 

 nearly extinct. It belong* to the 

 gallinule group. The best known 

 species ha* greenish plumage on the 

 back, with head, neck, and under 

 parts purple Its wings are rudi- 

 mentary and it cannot fly, but is 

 able to run with considerable speed. 

 Living specimens were caught in 

 18-49, 1851, 1879, and ' 



No Treating Order. Drink re- 

 striction in Britain during the Great 

 War. Early in the war complaints 

 were made as to the excessive 

 drinkinu' in munition areas, and ite 

 harmful effect on the output of ur- 

 gent supplies, also as to the injury 

 to soldiers on leave by well-mean- 

 ing persons treating them to alco- 

 holie liquor. As part of the wider 

 scheme to regulate the drink traffic 

 the Central Control Board (Liquor 

 Traffic) issued an order in Nov., 

 1915, prohibiting treating. No one 

 could purchase in licensed premises 

 or clubs an alcoholic drink for 

 another j>erson. Infringement of 

 the order was punishable by a fine, 

 and many prosecutions took place. 

 The order remained in force until 

 June, 1919. See Central Control 

 Board ; Liquor Control. 



Notre Dame (Fr., Our Lady). 

 In French ecclesiology, name for 

 the Virgin Mary. Numerous 

 churches are thus dedicated, in 

 Paris and elsewhere, notably the 

 cathedral. Notre Dame de Paris. 

 Situated in the tie de la Cite, this 

 cathedral stands on the site of a 

 7th century church of S. Etienne 

 and of a church of Notre Dame re- 

 built in the 9th century. Begun in 

 1163, and completed early in the 

 14th century, the existing building 

 was converted into a Temple of 

 Reason, 1793-94. 



The building reopened in 1795 

 for divine worship, handed over to 

 the R.C. Church in 1802, restored 

 in 1845, and damaged by the Com- 

 munards in 1871. A magnificent 

 example of decorated Gothic archi- 

 tecture, its length is 390 ft. The 

 two towers have quaint gargoyles 

 on their balustrades, and are 

 high. The tine sculptured facade 

 was completed in 1240. The aisles 

 are prolonged round the choir, 



