MUHLENBERG COLLEGE 342 MULBERRY MUHLENBERG COLLEGE, an edu- cational institution in Allentown, Pa.; founded in 1867 under the auspices of the Lutheran Church; reported at the close of 1919: Professors and instructors, 14; students, 189. MUHLHAUSEN (mul'hou-zen) , a town of Prussian Saxony, on the Un- strut, 25 miles N. N. W. of Gotha; is an active center of commerce, and has man- ufactures of woolen and cotton goods, hosiery, etc. An important imperial free city even in the 13th century, it came to JOHN MUIR Prussia in 1802, to Westphalia in 1807, and again to Prussia in 1815. Pop. about 35,000. MUIR, CHARLES HENRY, American soldier; born in Erie, Mich., in 1860; he graduated from the United States Mili- tary Academy in 1885, and from the In- fantry and Cavalry School, Fort Leaven- worth, Kan., in 1895, at the head of his class. He held first place in the Army Rifle Team in 1890. and with 10 com- panions attacked Rosario, P. I., in Jan- uary, 1900, driving out General Malvar s headquarters, capturing $25,000 from his treasury, and releasing 300 Spanish prisoners. 'From 1903 to 1907 he was a member of the general staff at Wash- ington and was assigned to the 28th Division in December, 1917. Has cam- paign badges of Indian Wars, Spanish- American War, Cuban Occupation, Philippine Insurrection, and China Relief Expedition. He became commander at Camp Hancock, Augusta, Ga., in Janu- ary, 1918, and till 1920 was on service at the War Department, Washing^ton. MUIR, JOHN, an American naturalist born in Dunbar, Scotland, April 21, 1838; educated in Scotland and at the Univer- sity of Wisconsin. His first explorations were in the less known regions of North America. For 25 years he wandered from the Gulf of Mexico to the glaciers of Alaska. In 1879 he discovered the famous Alaska glacier which bears his name. He was a member of the relief expedition sent to the Arctic regions on the United States steamer "Corwin." He wrote over 150 articles on the physi- ography and natural history of the Pa- cific coast, on Alaska, etc. He was one of the pioneers of the movement to con- serve forests and establish natural parks. He was a member of the Ameri- can Academy of Art and Letters. His most important works were: "Mountains of California" (1894); "Our National Parks" (1901); "Story of My Boyhood and Youth" (1913). He also contributed much to periodicals. He died in 1914. MUIR GLACIER, an Alaskan glacier discovered in 1878 by John Muir. The ice forming it flows down the slope of Mount Fairweather, over 15,000 feet high, and enters Glacier Bay, forming a wall of ice nearly two miles long and from 135 to 200 feet high. From the lower end break off great icebergs which are carried away to sea. MUKDEN, MOUKDEN, or FUNG- TIEN-FU, a town of China, capital of Manchuria and of the province of Leao- Tong, about 380 miles N. E. of Peking. It is doubly walled, being an old and long-time residence of the Imperial Clan or Manchu sovereigns before their con- quest of China. Feb. 28 to March 13, 1905. the greatest battle of the Russo- Japanese War took place here. The city has a large trade. Pop. about 160,000. MULATTO, a person that is the off- spring of parents of whom one is white and the other is a negro. The mulatto is of a dark color tinged with yellow, with frizzled or woolly hair, and resem- bles the European more than the African. MULBERRY (Morus), a genus of trees of the natural order Moracese, na- tives of temperate and warm climates, with diciduous leaves, unisexual flowers
