MERGUI

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MERGUI , the southernmost

district

DISTRICT

of Lower Burma, in the Tenasserim division, bounded on the W. by the Bay of Bengal and on the E. by Siam. Area 9789 sq. m. Two principal ranges

cross

CROSS

the

district

DISTRICT

from north to

south

SOUTH
SOUTH, ROBERT (1634–1716)

, running almost
Hybrids between, as is presumed, M. albellus and Clangula
IIaucion, the common golden-eye, have been described and figured (Eimbeck, Isis, 1831, 300, tab. iii.; Brehm, Naturgesch. aller Vog. Deutschlands, p. 930; Naumann, Vog. Deutschlands, xii. 194, frontispiece; Kja'rbolling, Jour. fete Ornithologie, 1853, Extraheft, p. 29, Naumannia, 1853, p. 327, Ornithol. danica, tab. lv., suppl. tab. 29) under the names of Mergus anatarius, Clangula angustirostris, and Anas (Clangula) mergoides, as though they were a distinct species; but the remarks of De Selys-Longchamps (

Bull

. Ac. Sc.-Bruxelles, 1845, pt. ii. p. 354, and 1856, pt. ii. p. 21) leave little room for doubt as to their origin, which, when the cryptogamic habit and common range of their putative parents, the former unknown to the author last-named, is considered, will seem to be still more likely.
this remained in his family till 1726, when, after a

great

GREAT

fire that destroyed most of the books in stock, it came to an end. In 1625

Merian

MERIAN,
MATTHEW
(1593–1650)

became a burgher of Frankfort, then the

great

GREAT

centre of the book trade in Germany, and lived there till his death on the 22nd of June 1650. Among his many works two deserve to be specially mentioned. The first is the long

series

SERIES (a Latin word from serere, to join)

of works, each entitled Topographia, which contained descriptions of various countries, illustrated by copper plates, largely done by

Merian

MERIAN,
MATTHEW
(1593–1650)

himself, while the accompanying text was due to Martin Zeiller (1589-1661), an Austrian by

birth

BIRTH (a word common in various forms to Teutonic languages from the root of the verb " to bear ")

. The first volume was published in 1642 and described Switzerland, with the Grisons and the Valais; it contains the first known view of the glaciers of Grindelwald. " Austria " appeared in 1649, but the volume relating to Upper Saxony and Bohemia (1650) was the last issued by Merian himself. " France " appeared in 16551656, while in 1688 the

series

SERIES (a Latin word from serere, to join)

(extending to 30 parts, in 18 vols.) came to an end with " Italy," the volume as to Rome having appeared in 168x. The other great enter-prise of Merian was the series entitled Theatrum Europaeum, which appeared in 21 parts between 1635 and 1738it is a historical chronicle of events in Europe from 1617 onwards. In 1625163o Merian published a series of illustrations to the Bible, and in 1649 a Dance of Death. But he is best remembered by his views of towns, which have very considerable historical value. His best pupil, Wenceslaus Hollar (1607-1677), of Prague, settled in London (16351643, 16521677), and worthily carried on the Merian tradition. (W. A. B. C.)
See Life, by H. Eckardt (Basel, 1887).

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