KEY AND INDEX 



ventor. With his brother invented the hot-air 

 balloon, a public exhibition being given in 1782. 



Montgolfier, Stephen, vii, 230. Born at Ar- 

 deche, France, Jan. 7, 1745; died in Servieres, 

 Aug. 2, 1799. French mechanician and inventor 

 (with his brother Joseph, q.v.) of the hot-air bal- 

 loon. 



Morgagni, Giovanni Battista, iv, 76. Born at 

 Forli, Italy, Feb. 25, 1682; died at Padua, Italy, 

 Nov. 5, 1771. An Italian physician and anato- 

 mist. He made exhaustive studies of the struc- 

 ture of diseased tissue both during life and post- 

 mortem, and as he was one of the first to inves- 

 tigate this subject he is one of the founders 

 of pathological anatomy. From the time of the 

 publication of Morgagni's researches morbid 

 anatomy became a recognized branch of medical 

 science. 



Morgan, Lewis Henry, vi, 25. Born at Aurora, 

 N. Y., Nov. 21, 1818; died at Rochester, N. Y., 

 Dec. 17, 1881. American archaeologist and an- 

 thropologist. He was first to give a scientific 

 account of the organization and government of 

 the Indian tribe. 



Morse, Samuel F. B., viii, 17. Born at Charles- 

 town, Mass., April 27, 1791; died at New York, 

 April 2, 1872. American artist and inventor of 

 the electric telegraph. He began life as a por- 

 trait painter, but turned his attention to inven- 

 tion, and in 1832 designed an electric telegraph. 

 He applied for a patent in 1837, and in 1844 a 

 line of telegraph was completed between Balti- 

 more and Washington, an appropriation for its 

 construction having been granted by Congress 

 the year before. 



