BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX 



Morton, Dr. William Thomas Greene, iv, 214. 

 Born at Charlton, Mass., Aug. 9, 1819; died at 

 New York, July 15, 1868. An American dentist, 

 the discoverer of etherization. On October 16, 

 1846, Dr. Morton administered ether to a pa- 

 tient in the Massachusetts General Hospital, at 

 Boston, and Dr. Warren performed a difficult 

 operation, the removal of a tumor from the pa- 

 tient's neck. This operation inaugurated the 

 era of painless surgery for which Dr. Morton's 

 discovery is responsible. 



Muller, Johannes, iv, 122. Born at Coblenz, 

 Germany, July 14, 1801 ; died at Berlin, April 

 27, 1858. German physiologist and comparative 

 anatomist. He was one of the founders of mod- 

 ern physiology. 



Murdoch, William, vi, 207; vii, 158. Born at 

 Auchinleck, Ayrshire, Aug. 21, 1753; died at 

 Birmingham, Nov. 15, 1839. Scottish inventor. 

 He was associated with Watt in Birmingham, 

 and in 1795 first made use of illuminating gas 

 at that place. He was the inventor of the oscil- 

 lating steam-engine. 



Musschenbroek, Peter van, ii, 280. Born at 

 Leyden, Netherlands, March 14, 1692; died there 

 Sept. 19, 1761. Dutch natural philosopher and 

 mathematician. One of the discoverers of the 

 Leyden jar. His discovery was made at about 

 the same time as that of Dean von Kleist, but 

 independently. 



Newcomb, Simon, vii, 39. Born at Wallace, 

 Nova Scotia, March 12, 1835; died in 1910. 

 American astronomer. Professor of Mathema- 

 tics in the United States Navy in 1861 ; in 1884, 

 Professor of Mathematics and Astronomy at 



