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MOOBE 301 MOOSE been educated, he passed in 1794 to Trin- ity College, and thence, after taking his B. A., in 1799, to the Middle Temple, London. His translation of Anacreon came out in 1800. It proved a great hit. In 1801 followed the "Poetical Works of the late Thomas Little." In 1803, through Lord Moira's influence, he was appointed registrar of the Admiralty court at Ber- muda. For his "Odes and Epistles" (1806) he was sharply taken to task in the "Edinburgh." The bulletless duel with Jeffrey was the consequence, but which left the non-combatants fast friends for life. In 1811 he married an actress, Bessy Dyke (1793-1865). Mean- while he had published the earlier of the "Irish Melodies" (10 parts, 1807-1834), and "The Twopenny Post-bag" (1812). In 1817 "Lalla Rookh" appeared. Long- mans paid him $15,000; the "Irish Melo- dies" brought in $2,500 a year; and about this time his Bermuda deputy em- bezzled $30,000. Moore's liability was ultimately paid by his pen; but in 1819, to avoid arrest, he went to Italy. He settled in Paris, where he wrote "The Loves of the Angels" (1823) and a prose romance, "The Epicurean" (1827). He returned in 1822, producing in the suc- ceeding years "Memoirs of Captain Rock" (1824), the "History of Ireland" (1827), "Lives" of Sheridan (1825), Byron (1830), and Lord Edward Fitz- gerald (1831). In 1835 he received a pension of $1,500, but his last days were clouded by sorrow and suffering — the loss of his two sons, and the decay of his mental faculties. He died near Devizes, England, Feb. 25, 1852. MOORE, WILLIS LUTHER, Amer- ican meteorologist; born in Scranton, Pa., 1856. Was printer during his youth, then entered Signal Corps, which later became the U. S. Weather Bureau, in 1876. Rose through hard study, becom- ing chief of Weather Bureau, 1895-1913. In 1914 became professor of applied meteorology of George Washington Uni- versity. Has lectured extensively and contributed to scientific publications, and published "Descriptive Meteorology" (1901). MOORHEAD, a city of Minnesota, the county-seat of Clay co,, situated on the Red river of the North, and on the North- ern Pacific and Great Northern rail- roads. It contains the State normal school and Concordia College. It has also an excellent public library. The city is the center of a productive agri- cultural community. It has grain ele- vators, silo factories, railroad yards, foundries, and machine shops. Pop. (1910) 4,840; (1920) 5,720. MOORUK {Casuarms Bennettii), a va- riety of cassowary, inhabiting the island of New Britain. MOOSE, the name applied to the deer of the genus Alces, the largest quadruped of North America. The name comes from the Algonquin word musu, meaning wood eater. The male, called the bull moose, is much larger than the female. It usually stands over 6 feet high at the shoulder, with the weight sometimes ex- ceeding half a ton. The head of the moose is large and bears antlers of unusual size and shape. It has large nostrils and a large hairy muzzle. This, together with the antlers, gives the head an ungainly aspect. The legs are long and the neck short and stout. The front MOOSE legs are longer than the rear ones and this gives the moose when running an awkward gait. The color is usually brown, the legs yellowish. During the summer the moose are solitary in their habits. The breeding season begins in September and at this season the bulls lose their natural timidity and become savage. Moose often gather during the winter in herds and form moose yards by tramping the snow so that the shrubs and young trees may be used for food. Moose are among the finest of game animals and they have been so thoroughly hunted that their numbers have been greatly reduced in all the settled portions of the United States. The common moose is found throughout Canada and in Maine, Minnesota, and the northern Rocky Mountains. In nearly all the States where they are found they ar3 protected in certain seasons of the year. A national moose preserve has been es- tablished in northern Minnesota. _ They are also preserved in Alaska and in New Brunswick. Vol. VI— Cyc— T